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Events

871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danes invasion army.
1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.
1806 - Cape Colony becomes a United Kingdom colony.
1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana and Saint James Parish, Louisiana.
1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads United States forces in victory over the United Kingdom.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a Telegraphy using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Springfield II
1863 - Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield, England.
1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the Washington, D.C..
1877 - Crazy Horse (person) and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Battle of Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
1889 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
1900 - President of the United States William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw (village), New York, kills 20 people 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 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
1912 - The African National Congress was founded.
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1918 - President of the United States Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farský.
1922 - The Socialist Youth League of Norway is founded.
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1935 - Arthur C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
1940 - World War II: Britain Rationing in the United Kingdom.
1953 - René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.
1956 - Operation Auca: Five United States missionary are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba.
1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).
1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into United States Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate complex 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.
1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).
1982 - AT&T agrees to Bell System divestiture itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Leicestershire, England.
1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei Japanese era name.
1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
2002 - United States President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the controversial No Child Left Behind Act.
2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
2006 - Exercise Northstar V, a large scale civil defence exercise, is held in Singapore and contains 4 MRT Stations and Toa Payoh Bus Interchange.

Births

1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo, Spain (d. 1709)
1735 - John Carroll (priest), American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
1786 - Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844), American banking executive (d. 1844)
1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate States of America general (d. 1904)
1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
1860 - Emma Booth, daughter of William Booth and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1885 - John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)
1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch activist and pacifist (d. 1967)
1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
1902 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
1904 - Karl Brandt (Nazi physician), Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
1909 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
1909 - Evelyn Wood (teacher), American educator (d. 1995)
1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)
1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist
1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German anti-Hitler activist (d. 1942)
1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
1931 - Bill Graham (promoter), German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
1933 - Straub-Huillet, French film director
1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer
1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
1947 - David Bowie, English musician
1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
1951 - John McTiernan, American film director
1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician (Loverboy)
1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler
1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
1962 - Chris Marion, American musician (Little River Band)
1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician Fuel (band))
1970 - Dave Eggers, American writer and publisher
1970 - Melissa Hill, American porn actress
1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player
1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby player
1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)
1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor
1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian soccer player
1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
1980 - Rachel Nichols (actress), American actress
1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
1983 - Chris Mordetsky, American professional wrestler
1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer
1994 - Davis Rempe, American Musician
1995 - Hannah Robinson (Actress), American actress
2000 - Noah Cyrus, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus; guest stared on her sister's TV show, Hannah Montana

Deaths

482 - Severinus of Noricum
1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)
1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1901 - John Barry (VC), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley
1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Supermarine Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1911)
1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas (American businessman), American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
2006 - Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, British politician (b. 1943)
2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

Commonwealth Day is celebrated in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Liturgical Calendar of saints

The feast day of Our Lady of Prompt Succor in the Roman Catholic Church.
January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Abo of TiflisAttwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
Gudula
Lucian of Beauvais
Pega
Severinus of Noricum
Thorfinn of Hamar

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
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January 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of the year (358 in leap years).

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