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MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2008

Today is Monday, January 7, the seventh day of 2008. There are 359 days left in the year. 1598 _ Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I 1608 _ Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia 1610 _ Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede 1618 _ Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor 1622 _ Germany and Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg 1714 _ Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later) 1822 _ Liberia colonized by Americans 1946 _ Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union 1953 _ U.S. President Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb 1955 _ Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at the Met (New York City) 1958 _ The USSR shrinks army to 300,000 1972 _ William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice 1974 _ Dutch rations gasoline 1977 _ Human Rights Charter '77 established in Prague 1979 _ Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge 1982 _ ``Fame" premieres on NBC TV 1991 _ Soviet paratroopers sent t

Jan 6, 2008

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 2008

Today is Saturday, January 5, the fifth day of 2008. There are 361 days left in the year. 1531 _ Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry 1709 _ Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans 1822 _ Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire 1896 _ German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays 1903 _ San Francisco-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use 1909 _ Colombia recognizes Panam's independence 1930 _ Mao Tse-tung writes ``A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" 1933 _ Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins on Marin County side 1949 _ President Harry S Truman labels his administration the ``Fair Deal" 1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel" 1957 _ Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mideast 1976 _ Cambodia is renamed ``Democratic Kampuchea" 1998 _ Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid

Jan 4, 2008

FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2008

Today is Friday, January 4, the fourth day of 2008. There are 362 days left in the year. 274 _ St. Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic pope 1493 _ Columbus left the New World on return from first voyage 1642 _ King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament 1717 _ The Netherlands, England and France sign Triple Alliance 1725 _ Benjamin Franklin arrives in London 1762 _ England declares a war on Spain and Naples 1894 _ France ratifies the Duple Alliance with Russia 1896 _ Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as the 45th U.S. state 1907 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Don Juan in Hell" premieres in London 1923 _ Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin 1932 _ British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru 1951 _ During the Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul 1969 _ France begins arms embargo against Israel 1989 _ U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over the Mediterranean

Jan 3, 2008

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2008

Today is Thursday, January 3, the third day of 2008. There are 363 days left in the year. 236 _ St. Anterus ends his reign as Catholic pope 1431 _ Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop 1521 _ Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church 1833 _ Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic 1868 _ Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors 1921 _ Turkey makes peace with Armenia 1941 _ Italian counter offensive in Albania 1945 _ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits France 1945 _ U.S. aircraft carriers attack Okinawa 1957 _ The first electric watch introduced, Lancaster, Pa. 1958 _ Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole overland 1959 _ Alaska admitted as the 49th U.S. state 1961 _ The U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba 1962 _ Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro 1970 _ Marxist government takes over in Congo 1974 _ Burma accepts its constitution 1977 _ Apple Computer incorporated 1985 _ Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews 1

Jan 2, 2008

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2008

Today is Wednesday, January 2, the second day of 2008. There are 364 days left in the year. 533 _ John II begins his reign as Catholic pope 1492 _ Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day) 1570 _ Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins 1757 _ British troops occupy Calcutta, India 1790 _ Mozart's opera ``Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna 1814 _ Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" 1905 _ Japanese troops capture Port Arthur 1919 _ Lithuania gains independence 1942 _ Japanese troops occupy Manila, the Philippines 1974 _ Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres 1988 _ Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-U.S. free trade agreement 1994 _ Battles between army and rebellious Indians in South Mexico, kill 57 1995 _ Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)

Jan 1, 2008

TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2008

Today is Tuesday, January 1, the first day of 2008. There are 365 days left in the year. 4714 B.C. _ The origin of the Julian Period (Year 0) 1 _ The origin of the Christian Era 1583 _ The first day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland and Flanders 1776 _ General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag 1808 _ Congress prohibits importation of slaves 1893 _ Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar 1899 _ Cuba liberated from Spain by the U.S. 1912 _ Sun Yat-sen forms the Chinese Republic 1923 _ The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established 1934 _ The International Telecommunication Union established 1948 _ The General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT) effective 1950 _ Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indochina 1951 _ Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on U.N.-lines 1958 _ European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation 1959 _ Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dominican Republic 1991 _ Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak 1

Dec 31, 2007

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2007

Today is Monday, December 31, the 365th day of 2007. There is no day left in the year. 335 _ St. Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic pope 406 _ 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz 1492 _ 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily 1600 _ British East India Company chartered 1756 _ Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles 1890 _ Ellis Island opens as a U.S. immigration depot 1911 _ Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize 1924 _ Edwin Hubble announces existence of distant galactic systems 1945 _ Ratification of the U.N. Charter completed 1946 _ President Truman officially proclaims the end of WWII 1970 _ President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines 1977 _ Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam 1978 _ Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the U.S. 1981 _ CNN Headline News debuts 1983 _ Brunei gains complete independence from Britain 1984 _ Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira 1991 _ The USSR, last day of existence

Dec 30, 2007

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2007

Today is Saturday, December 29, the 363rd day of 2007. There are 2 days left in the year. 1503 _ Battle at Carigliano; Spanish army beats France 1845 _ Texas admitted as the 28th state 1862 _ Bowling ball invented 1891 _ Edison patents ``transmission of signals electrically" (radio) 1940 _ Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WWII) 1948 _ Canada recognizes Israel 1967 _ The Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus 1968 _ Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes 1972 _ Life magazine ceases publication 1983 _ The U.S. announces withdrawal from UNESCO 1984 _ Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parliamentary elections 1989 _ Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia 1997 _ Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu 1997 _ Russia signs agreement to build a $3 billion nuclear power plant in China

Dec 28, 2007

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2007

Today is Friday, December 28, the 362nd day of 2007. There are 3 days left in the year. 418 _ St. Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic pope 1828 _ 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed 1850 _ Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire 1945 _ U.S. Congress officially recognizes the ``Pledge of Allegiance" 1949 _ 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs 1950 _ Chinese troops cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea 1968 _ 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival 1968 _ Israeli assault on Beirut Airport 1972 _ Kim Il-sung becomes president of North Korea 1976 _ ``Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 performances 1976 _ Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa 1984 _ Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India 1985 _ Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement 1989 _ Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia

Dec 27, 2007

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2007

Today is Thursday, December 27, the 361st day of 2007. There are 4 days left in the year. 537 _ St. Sofia Church in Constantinople initiated 1703 _ England and Portugal sign the Methuen-Asiento-trade agreement 1831 _ Darwin begins his voyage to South America on board the HMS Beagle 1927 _ Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in the USSR, Trotsky expelled 1939 _ 8.0 Earthquake in Erzincam, Turkey, about 50,000 die 1941 _ Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an ``open city" 1945 _ The International Monetary Fund established; the World Bank founded 1960 _ France performs a nuclear test 1972 _ New North Korean constitution comes into effect 1978 _ King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's first democratic constitution 1979 _ Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown

Dec 26, 2007

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