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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008

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)

Jan 29, 2008

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2008

Today is Tuesday, January 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year. 1587 _ Deventer and Zutphen surrender to Spain 1613 _ Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees 1781 _ Mozart's opera ``Idomeneo" premieres in Munich 1834 _ President Jackson orders the first use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute 1839 _ Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood 1861 _ Kansas becomes the 34th U.S. state 1922 _ The Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved 1927 _ The fourth German government of Marx forms 1944 _ 285 German bombers attack London 1959 _ Walt Disney's ``Sleeping Beauty" released 1966 _ Snowstorm in northeast U.S. kills 165 1968 _ Nauru adopts constitution 1979 _ Chinese Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C. 1980 _ Six Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of the Canadians 1990 _ Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill

Jan 28, 2008

MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2008

Today is Monday, January 28, the 28th day of 2008. There are 338 days left in the year. 1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German Emperor Heinrich IV 1099 _ The first Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad, Syria 1613 _ Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune 1851 _ Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered 1871 _ Paris surrenders to Prussians 1902 _ Carnegie Institute founded in Washington, D.C. 1909 _ U.S. military forces leave Cuba for the second time 1918 _ Trotsky becomes leader of Reds 1932 _ Japan occupies Shanghai 1935 _ Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion 1942 _ German troops occupy Benghazi, Libya 1944 _ Leonard Bernstein's ``remiah" premieres in Pittsburgh 1949 _ The U.N. Security Council condemns Dutch aggression in Indonesia 1956 _ Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Brothers Stage Show) 1981 _ William J Casey becomes the 13th director of CIA (until 1987) 1988 _ Canada's Supreme Curt declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional 1990 _ East German agreement t

Jan 27, 2008

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2008

Today is Saturday, January 26, the 26th day of 2008. There are 340 days left in the year. 66 _ The fifth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1340 _ English king Edward III proclaimed king of France 1531 _ Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die 1699 _ Venice, Poland and Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey 1748 _ England, the Netherlands, Austria and Sardinia sign anti-French treaty 1790 _ Mozart's opera ``Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna 1797 _ Russia, Prussia and Austria sign treaty 1838 _ Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to prohibit alcohol 1871 _ U.S. income tax repealed 1886 _ Karl Benz patents the first auto with burning motor 1905 _ Han Yong-woon (Manhae) (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea 1915 _ Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, established 1929 _ Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence 1939 _ Filming begins on ``Gone With the Wind" 1939 _ Franco conquers Barcelona 1940 _ Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains 1945 _ Soviet forces reach Auschwitz co

Jan 25, 2008

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2008

Today is Friday, January 25, the 25th day of 2008. There are 341 days left in the year. 1327 _ King Edward III accedes to British throne 1494 _ Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples 1579 _ The Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic 1721 _ Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy 1802 _ Napoleon elected president of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1910 _ Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem 1915 _ Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to San Francisco) 1916 _ Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary 1918 _ Russia declared a republic of Soviets 1945 _ Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths 1951 _ U.N. forces begin counteroffensive in Korea 1955 _ Russia ends state of war with Germany 1955 _ Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years 1959 _ Pope John XXIII proclaims the second Vatican council 1969 _ U.S.-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris 1980 _ The Dutch governm

Jan 24, 2008

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008

Today is Thursday, January 24, the 24th day of 2008. There are 342 days left in the year. 772 _ Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic pope 1568 _ In the Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw 1679 _ King Charles II disbands English parliament 1722 _ Czar Peter the Great begins civil system 1902 _ Denmark sells Virgin Islands to the U.S. 1923 _ Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico, established 1924 _ Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union 1924 _ Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad 1939 _ 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion, Chile 1943 _ Hitler orders Nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death 1964 _ The 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect 1969 _ Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency 1984 _ Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer 1994 _ Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)

Jan 23, 2008

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2008

Today is Wednesday, January 23, the 23rd day of 2008. There are 343 days left in the year. 638 _ Start of Islamic calendar 1265 _ First English Parliament formally convened 1556 _ Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China 1571 _ Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London 1647 _ Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament 1789 _ Georgetown, the first U.S. Catholic college, founded 1849 _ Patent granted for an envelope-making machine 1932 _ El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers 1943 _ British 8th army marches into Tripoli 1950 _ Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel 1961 _ The U.S. Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films 1961 _ Venezuela adopts constitution 1962 _ Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb 1968 _ Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in the East Sea by North Korea 1973 _ President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War 1987 _ Japan first e

Jan 22, 2008

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008

Today is Tuesday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2008. There are 344 days left in the year. 1371 _ King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned 1517 _ Turks conquer Cairo 1689 _ Lord Halifax becomes speaker of English House of Lords 1771 _ Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain 1813 _ Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada 1816 _ Lord Byron completes ``Parisina" and ``The Siege of Corinth" 1881 _ Ancient Egyptian obelisk ``Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park 1939 _ Uranium atom first split at Columbia University 1945 _ Heavy U.S. air raid on Okinawa 1946 _ The U.S. sets up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 1953 _ Arthur Miller's ``Crucible" premieres in New York City 1968 _ Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made 1973 _ The U.S., North and South Vietnam, and Vietcong sign a boundary accord 1980 _ Dissidents Andrei Sacharov and Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki 1988 _ Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title

Jan 21, 2008

MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2008

Today is Monday, January 21, the 21st day of 2008. There are 345 days left in the year. 1077 _ German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness 1732 _ Russia and Persia sign the Treaty of Riascha 1818 _ Keats writes his poem ``On a Lock of Milton's Hair" 1903 _ ``Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City 1908 _The New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public 1910 _ British-Russian military intervention in Persia 1938 _ The Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance 1950 _ T. S. Eliot's ``Cocktail Party" premieres in New York City 1952 _ Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India 1953 _ John Foster Dulles appointed as U.S. secretary of state 1968 _ U.S. B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland 1977 _ President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders 1988 _ The U.S. accept immigration of 30,000 U.S.-Vietnamese children 1998 _ Pope John Paul II visits Cuba

Jan 20, 2008

SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2008

Today is Saturday, January 19, the 19th day of 2008. There are 347 days left in the year. 379 _ Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire 973 _ Pope Benedictus VI elected 1793 _ French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1806 _ Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope 1808 _ Louis Napoleon signs the first Dutch aviation law 1829 _ Johann von Goethe's ``Faust, Part 1" premieres 1833 _ Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland 1918 _ Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly 1921 _ Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign the Pact of Union 1927 _ The British government decides to send troops to China 1942 _ Japanese forces invade Burma (now Myanmar) 1966 _ Indira Gandhi elected India's third prime minister 1981 _ The U.S. and Iran sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages 1993 _ Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal

Jan 18, 2008

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