About January 8
January 8, 2023 is the 8th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 14 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.
- 1811 –An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
- 1838 –Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
- 1863 –American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
- 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.
- 1906 –A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- 1920 –The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- 1956 –Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- 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.
- 1977 –Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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