Today is Tuesday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2008. There are 344 days left in the year.
1371 _ King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
1517 _ Turks conquer Cairo
1689 _ Lord Halifax becomes speaker of English House of Lords
1771 _ Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain
1813 _ Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
1816 _ Lord Byron completes ``Parisina" and ``The Siege of Corinth"
1881 _ Ancient Egyptian obelisk ``Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1939 _ Uranium atom first split at Columbia University
1945 _ Heavy U.S. air raid on Okinawa
1946 _ The U.S. sets up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
1953 _ Arthur Miller's ``Crucible" premieres in New York City
1968 _ Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1973 _ The U.S., North and South Vietnam, and Vietcong sign a boundary accord
1980 _ Dissidents Andrei Sacharov and Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
1988 _ Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title