Today is Saturday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2008. There are 333 days left in the year.
506 _ King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out
962 _ Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor
1848 _ The first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco
1863 _ Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for the first time
1878 _ Greece declares war on Turkey
1906 _ Pope encyclical against separation of church and state
1920 _ Estonia declares its Independence from Russia
1922 _ James Joyce's ``Ulysses" published in Paris
1932 _ Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Ga.)
1957 _ The U.N. adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
1995 _ U.S. space shuttle Discovery launched