Today is Wednesday, January 30, the 30th day of 2008. There are 336 days left in the year.
1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1349 _ Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1713 _ England and the Netherlands sign the second anti-French boundary treaty
1806 _ Prussia takes possession of Hanover
1925 _ Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
1933 _ German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen
1937 _ The second of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death
1939 _ Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews
1944 _ The U.S. invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
1954 _ Belgium ends trade agreement with the USSR
1957 _ U.S. Congress accepts ``Eisenhower-doctrine"
1968 _ Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon
1972 _ Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth
1976 _ George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)