Today is Monday, January 12, the 12th day of 2009. There are 353 days left in the year.
1755 _ Tsarina Elisabeth establishes first Russian University
1816 _ France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
1879 _ British Zulu War begins Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand
1906 _ First time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)
1949 _ Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter
1950 _ USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage
1966 _ LBJ says U.S. should stay in S. Vietnam until communist aggression ends
1970 _ Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
1974 _ Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as ``Islamic Arab Republic"
1994 _ Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame