January 8
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January 8 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining after January 8 until the end of the year (358 in leap years).
[change] Births
- 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
- 1587 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Dutch colonial Governor (d. 1629)
- 1788 – Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
- 1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, South African politician (d. 1893)
- 1821 – James Longstreet, American Confederate General (d. 1904)
- 1823 – Alfred Russell Wallace, English naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
- 1849 – Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral, explorer and writer (d. 1904)
- 1864 – Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
- 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist (d. 1961)
- 1868 – Frank Dyson, English astronomer (d. 1939)
- 1870 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
- 1873 – Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy (d. 1956)
- 1873 – Iuliu Maniu, Romanian Prime Minister (d. 1953)
- 1885 – John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
- 1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist (d. 1957)
- 1899 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
- 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
- 1902 – Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
- 1905 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (d. 1997)
- 1908 – William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975)
- 1910 – Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Larry Storch, American actor
- 1924 – Ron Moody, English actor
- 1925 – Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
- 1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009)
- 1929 – Wolfgang Peters, German footballer (d. 2003)
- 1931 – Bill Graham, German rock music entrepreneur (died 1991)
- 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
- 1934 – Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (died 1977)
- 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host
- 1941 – Graham Chapman, British comedian (died 1989)
- 1942 – Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
- 1942 – Junichiro Koizumi, former Prime Minister of Japan
- 1947 – David Bowie, English rock artist
- 1951 – Kenneth Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
- 1969 – R. Kelly, American R&B singer
- 1971 – Pascal Zuberbuehler, Swiss footballer
- 1972 – Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer
- 1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1976 – Marcelo Gallardo, Argentine footballer
- 1978 – Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
- 1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
- 1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
- 1979 – Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer
- 1980 – Lee Jung-soo, South Korean footballer
- 1981 – Genevieve Cortese, American actress
- 1982 – John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
- 1983 or 1984 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader
- 1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player
- 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress
- 2011 – Prince Vincent of Denmark
- 2011 – Princess Josephine of Denmark
[change] Deaths
- 1107 – Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
- 1324 – Marco Polo, Italian trader and explorer (b. 1254)
- 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564)
- 1697 – Thomas Aikenhead, Scottish student, executed under Blasphemy law (b. 1676)
- 1815 – Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
- 1825 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
- 1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
- 1880 – Emperor Norton, self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States (b. 1819)
- 1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of Scouting (b. 1857)
- 1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
- 1969 – Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
- 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
- 1991 – Steve Clark, British guitarist (b. 1960)
- 1996 – Francois Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (b. 1911)
- 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's fast food chain (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Michel Thomas, Polish-American linguist (b. 1914)
- 2006 – Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
- 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Art Clokey, American animator (b. 1921)
- 2011 – John Roll, American judge (b. 1947)
[change] Events
- 871 – Battle of Ashdown – Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.
- 1198 – Innocent III becomes Pope.
- 1734 – Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- 1746 – Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- 1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- 1815 – War of 1812: In the Battle of New Orleans Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- 1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
- 1856 – Borax is discovered (John Veatch).
- 1867 – African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
- 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).
- 1889 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
- 1893 - Captain Thomas Robertson discovers Dundee Island in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
- 1894 – A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
- 1900 – United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
- 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
- 1908 – A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
- 1912 - The African National Congress is founded.
- 1916 – World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
- 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
- 1926 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
- 1935 – A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
- 1953 – René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1958 – 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
- 1959 – Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1962 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC).
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of placing bugs in Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
- 1975 – Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
- 1982 – AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
- 1989 – Kegworth Air Disaster
- 1992 – President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister.
- 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station till March 22, 1995 for a record 437 days in space.
- 1996 – An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350
- 1998 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka.
- 1999 – Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
- 2003 - In Kosciuszko National Park in Australia, following several lightning strikes during the dry season, bush fires break out.
- 2003 – US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.
- 2004 – Queen Elizabeth names the Queen Mary II cruise liner, the largest passenger ship ever built.
- 2010 – The Togo national football team is targeted in an attack in Cabinda, Angola, and therefore withdraws from the African Cup of Nations.
- 2011 – Six people are killed in a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and several are injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
