January 8 Events |
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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, 2006 (January 08 2006) | Event | A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea. | |
January 8th, 2004 (January 08 2004) | Event | The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. | |
January 8th, 2002 (January 08 2002) | Event | President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. | George W. Bush Quotes |
January 8th, 1996 (January 08 1996) | Event | An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people. | |
January 8th, 1994 (January 08 1994) | Event | Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. | |
January 8th, 1989 (January 08 1989) | Event | The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 onboard. | |
January 8th, 1989 (January 08 1989) | Event | Beginning of Japanese Heisei era. | |
January 8th, 1982 (January 08 1982) | Event | AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. | |
January 8th, 1979 (January 08 1979) | Event | The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident). | |
January 8th, 1975 (January 08 1975) | Event | 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. | |
January 8th, 1973 (January 08 1973) | Event | Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. | |
January 8th, 1973 (January 08 1973) | Event | Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. | |
January 8th, 1964 (January 08 1964) | Event | President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
January 8th, 1962 (January 08 1962) | Event | Leonardo da Vinci s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. | |
January 8th, 1962 (January 08 1962) | Event | The Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands. | |
January 8th, 1961 (January 08 1961) | Event | In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle s policies in Algeria. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
January 8th, 1959 (January 08 1959) | Event | Fidel Castro s Cuban Revolution is completed with the take over of Santiago de Cuba. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
January 8th, 1956 (January 08 1956) | Event | Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. | |
January 8th, 1940 (January 08 1940) | Event | World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. | |
January 8th, 1926 (January 08 1926) | Event | Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia. | |
January 8th, 1918 (January 08 1918) | Event | President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. | |
January 8th, 1916 (January 08 1916) | Event | World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli. | |
January 8th, 1912 (January 08 1912) | Event | The African National Congress is founded. | |
January 8th, 1906 (January 08 1906) | Event | A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people. | |
January 8th, 1900 (January 08 1900) | Event | President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule. | William McKinley Quotes |
January 8th, 1877 (January 08 1877) | Event | Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory). | |
January 8th, 1867 (January 08 1867) | Event | African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. | |
January 8th, 1863 (January 08 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield | |
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, 1835 (January 08 1835) | Event | The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time. | |
January 8th, 1815 (January 08 1815) | Event | War of 1812: Battle of New OrleansAndrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
January 8th, 1811 (January 08 1811) | Event | A unsuccessful slave revolt was led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. | |
January 8th, 1806 (January 08 1806) | Event | Cape Colony becomes a British colony. | |
January 8th, 1790 (January 08 1790) | Event | George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City. | George Washington Quotes |
January 8th, 1746 (January 08 1746) | Event | Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. | |
January 8th, 1734 (January 08 1734) | Event | Premiere of George Frideric Handel s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. | George Frideric Handel Quotes |
January 8th, 1499 (January 08 1499) | Event | Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany. | |
January 8th, 1297 (January 08 1297) | Event | Monaco gains its independence. | |
January 8th, 0871 (January 08 0871) | Event | Battle of AshdownEthelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army. | |