January 8 2008 |
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| January 8th, 2008 (January 08 2008) | Event | New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so. Oddly enough, it happened within hours of the death of Clyde Otis. | |
| January 8th, 2008 (January 08 2008) | Death | George Moore, Australian champion jockey (born in 1923) | |
| January 8th, 2008 (January 08 2008) | Death | Clyde Otis, American song writer and music producer (born in c. 1924) | |
| January 8th, 1998 (January 08 1998) | Death | Michael Tippett, English composer (born in 1905) | |
| January 8th, 1988 (January 08 1988) | Birth | Adam T. Siska, American musician | |
| January 8th, 1978 (January 08 1978) | Birth | Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster | |
| January 8th, 1978 (January 08 1978) | Birth | Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player | |
| January 8th, 1968 (January 08 1968) | Birth | Keith Mullings, American boxer | |
| January 8th, 1958 (January 08 1958) | Birth | Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler | |
| January 8th, 1958 (January 08 1958) | Death | Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (born in 1883) | |
| January 8th, 1948 (January 08 1948) | Birth | Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director | |
| January 8th, 1948 (January 08 1948) | Death | Kurt Schwitters, German painter (born in 1887) | |
| January 8th, 1948 (January 08 1948) | Death | Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (born in 1891) | |
| January 8th, 1938 (January 08 1938) | Birth | Bob Eubanks, American game show host | |
| January 8th, 1938 (January 08 1938) | Birth | Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone | |
| January 8th, 1938 (January 08 1938) | Death | Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (born in 1880) | |
| January 8th, 1928 (January 08 1928) | Birth | Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (died in 1996) | |
| January 8th, 1928 (January 08 1928) | Birth | Slade Gorton, former American politician | |
| January 8th, 1918 (January 08 1918) | Event | President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. | |
| January 8th, 1918 (January 08 1918) | Death | Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (born in 1827) | |
| January 8th, 1908 (January 08 1908) | Birth | William Hartnell, British actor (died in 1975) | |
| January 8th, 1888 (January 08 1888) | Birth | Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (died in 1972) | |
| January 8th, 1888 (January 08 1888) | Birth | Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (died in 1960) | |
| January 8th, 1878 (January 08 1878) | Death | Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (born in 1821) | |
| January 8th, 1838 (January 08 1838) | Event | Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). | |
| January 8th, 1788 (January 08 1788) | Birth | Archduke Rudolph of Austria (died in 1831) | |
| January 8th, 1788 (January 08 1788) | Birth | Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (died in 1874) | |
| January 8th, 1628 (January 08 1628) | Birth | Francois Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (died in 1695) | |
| January 8th, 1598 (January 08 1598) | Death | John George, Elector of Brandenburg (born in 1525) | |
| January 8th, 1198 (January 08 1198) | Death | Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106) | |
