About January 8
January 8, 2024 is the 8th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 33 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 8
- 871 –Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
- 1499 –Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
- 1746 –Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- 1790 –George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 1806 –Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- 1835 –The United States national debt is 0 for the only time.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
- 1867 –African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 1904 –The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
- 1906 –A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- 1918 –President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
- 1920 –The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- 1945 –World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units was enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
- 1963 –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.
- 1973 –Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
- 1975 –Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
- 1981 –A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be “perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time”.
- 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.
- 2002 –President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
- 2003 –Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
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