Today is Monday, January 21, the 21st day of 2008. There are 345 days left in the year.
1077 _ German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1732 _ Russia and Persia sign the Treaty of Riascha
1818 _ Keats writes his poem ``On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1903 _ ``Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City
1908 _The New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1910 _ British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1938 _ The Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
1950 _ T. S. Eliot's ``Cocktail Party" premieres in New York City
1952 _ Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1953 _ John Foster Dulles appointed as U.S. secretary of state
1968 _ U.S. B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1977 _ President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1988 _ The U.S. accept immigration of 30,000 U.S.-Vietnamese children
1998 _ Pope John Paul II visits Cuba