Today is Wednesday, January 28, the 28th day of 2009. There are 337 days left in the year.
1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV
1099 _ First Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
1547 _ Nine-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
1613 _ Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
1689 _ English parliament ends king Charles II reign
1914 _ Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated
1918 _ Trotsky becomes leader of Reds
1932 _ Japan occupies Shanghai
1935 _ Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion
1998 _ Michelangelo's ``Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million