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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1811 –An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes 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.
- 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.
- 1956 –Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- 1961 –In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle’s policies in Algeria.
- 1962 –The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
- 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.
- 1977 –Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
- 1979 –The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
- 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.
- 2003 –Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
- 2005 –The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
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