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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2008

Today is Friday, January 18, the 18th day of 2008. There are 348 days left in the year. 336 _ St. Mark begins his reign as Catholic pope 350 _ General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans 1478 _ Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod 1691 _ English King Willem III travels to The Hague 1919 _ WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France 1929 _ Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo 1960 _ The U.S. and Japan sign a joint defense treaty 1962 _ The U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas 1974 _ Israel and Egypt sign a weapons accord 1981 _ Iran accepts U.S. offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets 1990 _ Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting 1991 _ Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel 1991 _ The U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career

Jan 17, 2008

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2008

Today is Thursday, January 17, the 17th day of 2008. There are 349 days left in the year. 1501 _ Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna 1595 _ French King Henri IV declares war on Spain 1827 _ Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander 1899 _ The U.S. takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific 1904 _ Anton Chekhov's ``The Cherry Orchard" opens at the Moscow Art Theater 1915 _ Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine 1938 _ The Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman 1945 _ Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation) 1945 _ Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation 1946 _ The U.N. Security Council holds its first meeting 1951 _ China refuses cease-fire in Korea 1969 _ Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in the U.K. 1969 _ Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in the U.S. 1973 _ New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life 1973 _ The city of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi 1987 _ U.S. President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale o

Jan 16, 2008

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2008

Today is Wednesday, January 16, the 16th day of 2008. There are 350 days left in the year. 308 _ St. Marcellus I ends his reign as Catholic pope 1493 _ Columbus returns to Spain on his first trip 1581 _ English parliament passes laws against Catholicism 1759 _ The British Museum opens in London 1832 _ Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde 1909 _ British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic South Pole 1914 _ Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia 1925 _ Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council 1944 _ General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London 1951 _ Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi 1961 _ Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain 1970 _ Colonel Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya 1980 _ Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession 1985 _ ``Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds 1989 _ Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague

Jan 15, 2008

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2008

Today is Tuesday, January 15, the 15th day of 2008. There are 351 days left in the year. 1535 _ Henry VIII declares himself head of the English Church 1915 _ Japan claims economic control of China 1936 _ Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates 1942 _ FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII 1944 _ General Eisenhower arrives in England 1949 _ Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin 1969 _ Soyuz 5 launched by the Soviet Union 1971 _ Aswan Dam officially opens in Egypt 1973 _ President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam 1991 _ U.N.'s deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes 1992 _ Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia 1997 _ Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station

Jan 14, 2008

MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008

Today is Monday, January 14, the 14th day of 2008. There are 352 days left in the year. 1236 _ English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence 1641 _ United East Indian Company conquerors the city of Malakka, 7,000 killed 1783 _ Congress ratifies a peace treaty between the U.S. and England 1784 _ The Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris 1814 _ King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by the treaty of Kiel 1858 _ French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1878 _ The U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional 1914 _ Henry Ford introduces the assembly line for T-Fords 1950 _ The U.S. recalls all consular officials from China 1954 _ Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio of New York Yankees 1986 _ The Constitution of Guatemala takes effect

Jan 13, 2008

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2008

Today is Saturday, January 12, the 12th day of 2008. There are 354 days left in the year. 1493 _ The last day for all Jews to leave Sicily 1755 _ Tsarina Elisabeth establishes the first Russian university 1867 _ Leo Tolstoy's ``Smert Ioonna Groznogo" premieres in St Petersburg 1915 _ The U.S. House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote 1933 _ U.S. Congress recognizes independence of the Philippines 1948 _ Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast 1961 _ A U.N. genocide pact goes into effect 1966 _ ``Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV 1975 _ Chrysler Corp offers first car rebates 1976 _ The U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) 1995 _ Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe, Japan 1995 _ Pope John Paul II begins visit to Southeast Asia

Jan 11, 2008

FRIIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2008

Today is Friday, January 11, the 11th day of 2008. There are 355 days left in the year. 314 _ St. Militiades ends his reign as Catholic pope 1569 _ The first recorded lottery in England is drawn at St. Paul's Cathedral 1672 _ Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society 1693 _ Mt. Etna erupts, Sicily 1790 _ Statisten and Vonckisten unite as Belgium 1942 _ Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1949 _ Snowfall first recorded in Los Angeles 1960 _ Chad declares independence from France 1961 _ Racial riot at the University of Georgia 1981 _ Palau adopts constitution 1990 _ 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence 1991 _ Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq

Jan 10, 2008

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2008

Today is Thursday, January 10, the 10th day of 2008. There are 356 days left in the year. 49 B.C. _ Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy 236 _ St. Fabian begins his reign as Catholic pope 1642 _ King Charles I and his family flee London for Oxford 1806 _ Dutch in Cape Town, South African surrender to the British 1870 _ John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil 1889 _ Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France 1928 _ The Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1942 _ Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies 1946 _ The U.S. Army establishes the first radar contact with Moon 1951 _ U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan, NY 1978 _ Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 1990 _ China lifts martial law imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre 1991 _ Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans 1997 _ Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua

Jan 9, 2008

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2008

Today is Wednesday, January 9, the ninth day of 2008. There are 357 days left in the year. 0536 _ Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten 1212 _ Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king 1688 _ King James II's wife and son flee England for France 1793 _ Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva 1878 _ Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1931 _ The Japanese army attacks the Chinese province of Jehol 1939 _ Russian air raid on Helsinki 1941 _ China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy 1941 _ Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed 1948 _ The U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves the Convention on Genocide 1963 _ Zanzibar gains independence from Britain 1990 _ Lech Walesa wins presidential election in Poland 1992 _ Prince Charles and Princess Diana separation announced by British PM John Major 1992 _ Operation Restore Hope ― U.S. Marines land in Somalia

Jan 8, 2008

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2008

Today is Tuesday, January 8, the eighth day of 2008. There are 358 days left in the year. 624 _ Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan 794 _ Church at Lindisfarne, England, destroyed by Vikings 1656 _ The oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins in Haarlem, the Netherlands 1745 _ England, Austria, the Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance 1790 _ George Washington delivers the first ``State of the Union" address 1952 _ Jordan adopts constitution 1958 _ Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana 1959 _ Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as president of France's 5th Republic 1964 _ President Lyndon B. Johnson declares ``War on Poverty" 1979 _ Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh 1986 _ President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the U.S. 1989 _ The Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons 1998 _ World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life

Jan 7, 2008

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