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.
- 1297 –François Grimaldi, disguised as monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
- 1499 –Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
- 1790 –George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
- 1964 –President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.
- 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.
- 1996 –An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
- 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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