On a day like today...

• 1184 BC - Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse.
• 1792 The French national anthem, ''La Marseillaise,'' was composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
• 1961 - Bob Dylan earned a $50 session fee for playing harmonica on Harry Belafonte's "Midnight Special." It was his recording debut.
• 1967 - Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, when the parachute fails to open. He was the first human to die during a space mission.
• 1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine.
• 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
• 2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

...once again... boredom + wikipedia = this post...