About January 8
January 8, 2025 is the 8th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 21 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 8
- 307 –Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
- 871 –Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
- 1746 –Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- 1780 –An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
- 1806 –Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- 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 only time.
- 1867 –African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 1877 –Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- 1912 –The African National Congress is founded.
- 1920 –The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- 1940 –World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
- 1961 –In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle’s policies in Algeria.
- 1971 –Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
- 1973 –Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
- 1977 –Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
- 1982 –The break up of AT&T: 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 on board.
- 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.
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