Today is Friday, February 1, the 32nd day of 2008. There are 334 days left in the year.
772 _ Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic pope
1587 _ English Queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence
1662 _ Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
1669 _ French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1720 _ Sweden and Prussia sign a peace treaty
1789 _ Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1793 _ France declares war on England and Netherlands
1861 _ Texas becomes the seventh U.S. state to secede
1893 _ Thomas Edison completes world's first movie studio (West Orange, NJ)
1902 _ China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1951 _ The U.N. condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1961 _ First full-scale test of U.S. Minuteman ICBM is successful
1984 _ China and the Netherlands regain diplomatic relations