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
- 1499 –Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
- 1734 –Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- 1790 –George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 1889 –Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator.
- 1912 –The African National Congress is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 –The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
- 1982 –The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
- 1989 –Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010 –Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
- 2011 –An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
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