Today is Tuesday, January 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year.
1587 _ Deventer and Zutphen surrender to Spain
1613 _ Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1781 _ Mozart's opera ``Idomeneo" premieres in Munich
1834 _ President Jackson orders the first use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute
1839 _ Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1861 _ Kansas becomes the 34th U.S. state
1922 _ The Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved
1927 _ The fourth German government of Marx forms
1944 _ 285 German bombers attack London
1959 _ Walt Disney's ``Sleeping Beauty" released
1966 _ Snowstorm in northeast U.S. kills 165
1968 _ Nauru adopts constitution
1979 _ Chinese Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C.
1980 _ Six Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of the Canadians
1990 _ Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill