January 8

January 8

Events

* 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish 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 British colony.
*1811 - An unsuccessful slave revolt was led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
*1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
*1835 - The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
*1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
*1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
*1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
*1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
*1900 - President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
*1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
*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.
*1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
*1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
*1959 - Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution is completed with the take over 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 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
* 1962 - The 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 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.
*1979 - The tanker "Betelgeuse" explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).
*1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
*1989 - The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 onboard.
* 1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
*1994 - 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.
*1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
*2002 - President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
*2004 - The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
*2006 - 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.
*2008 - New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.

Births

*1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
*1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
*1587 - Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
*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 (d. 1709)
*1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
*1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
*1786 - Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
*1788 - Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
* 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)
*1812 - Sigismond Thalberg, French pianist and composer (d. 1871)
*1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
*1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate 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 and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)
*1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
*1864 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
*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)
* 1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
*1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
*1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
* 1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
*1885 - John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)
* 1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967)
*1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
* 1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
*1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
* 1891 - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
* 1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
*1894 - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
*1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
* 1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
*1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
*1899 - Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister (d. 1959)
*1900 - Dame Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
*1902 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
* 1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
*1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
*1904 - Karl Brandt, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
*1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
* 1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
*1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
*1909 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
* 1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
* 1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
*1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)
*1911 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)
*1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
*1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
*1922 - Abbey Simon, U.S. pianist
*1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
* 1923 - Giorgio Tozzi, American bass
* 1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
* 1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008)
*1924 - Benjamin Lees, American composer
* 1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
*1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
*1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
* 1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
* 1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
* 1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
*1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
*1928 - Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (d. 1996)
* 1928 - Slade Gorton, former American politician
*1929 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
*1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
*1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
* 1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
* 1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
*1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
* 1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
* 1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
* 1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
*1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
*1936 - Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor
* 1936 - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
*1937 - Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
*1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
* 1938 - Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone
*1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
* 1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
*1942 - Valya Balkanska, Bulgarian folk singer
* 1942 - Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
* 1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
* 1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
*1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer
*1945 - Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer
* 1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
* 1945 - Kathleen Noone, American actress
*1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician
*1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
* 1947 - David Bowie, English musician
* 1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
* 1947 - Terry Sylvester, British singer and musician
*1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
*1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
* 1951 - John McTiernan, American film director
*1952 - Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist
*1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
*1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
* 1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician
*1957 - Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer
*1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
*1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005)
*1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
* 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
*1962 - Chris Marion, American musician
*1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
*1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
* 1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (d. 1990)
*1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
*1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
*1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician
* 1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
*1970 - Rachel Friend, Australian 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 league footballer
*1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
* 1975 - Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer
*1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician
* 1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor
* 1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
* 1976 - Brad Snyder, Canadian shot putter
*1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
* 1977 - Ron Pederson, Canadian actor
* 1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
*1978 - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
* 1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
*1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
* 1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
* 1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
* 1979 - Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
*1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
*1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
* 1981 - Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player
*1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
* 1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
* 1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
* 1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
*1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler
* 1983 - Felipe Colombo, Argentine-Mexican actor and singer
*1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
*1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
*1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
* 1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
*1988 - Adam T. Siska, American musician
*1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer
*1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer

Deaths

* 482 - Saint 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)
*1456 - St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381)
*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)
*1598 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
*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, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
*1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
* 1916 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
*1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
*1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
*1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
* 1934 - Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (b. 1886)
*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 Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
*1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
*1945 - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
*1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
* 1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
*1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
*1953 - Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (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 - John Gregson, English actor (b. 1919)
* 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)
*1982 - Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
*1983 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
* 1983 - Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
* 1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
*1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
*1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
*1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
*1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
* 1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
*1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
*1996 - John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
* 1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
* 1996 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
*1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
*1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
*2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
* 2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
*2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
* 2002 - Dave Thomas, 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, British politician (b. 1943)
*2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
* 2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
* 2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
* 2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
* 2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
*2008 - George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
* 2008 - Clyde Otis, American song writer and music producer (b. c. 1924)

Holidays and observances

* Commonwealth Day is celebrated in the Northern Mariana Islands.
*The feast day of Our Lady of Prompt Succor in the Roman Catholic Church.
*January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*St. Abo of Tiflis
*St. Apollinaris, Bishop of Hierapolis, 2nd Century.
*St. Gudula
*St. Lucian of Beauvais
*St. Pega
*St. Severinus
*St. Thorfinn

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/8 BBC: On This Day]
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* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jan&day=08 On This Day in Canada] ----


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