January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of the year (358 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
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NATIONAL WINTER SKIN RELIEF DAY
871 – The Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred (the Great) defeat the invading Danish army.
1790 – On this day in 1790, President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address to the assembled Congress in New York City.
1642 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei dies in Italy at age 77.
1760 – Comet C/1760 A1 (The Great Comet of 1760) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth.
1790 – On this day in 1790, President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address to the assembled Congress in New York City.
1815 – Two weeks after the War of 1812 officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieves the greatest American victory of the war at the Battle of New Orleans.
1867 – Congress overrides President Andrew Johnson's veto of a bill granting all adult male citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote, and the bill becomes law.
1877 – Outnumbered, low on ammunition, and forced to use outdated weapons to defend themselves, Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their final losing battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
1916 – On January 8, 1916, Allied forces stage a full retreat from the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, ending a disastrous invasion of the Ottoman Empire.
1916 – On this day in 1916 Rembrandt Bugatti, a sculptor and younger brother of Italian auto designer and manufacturer Ettore Bugatti, commits suicide at the age of 31.
1918 – In an address before a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson discusses the aims of the United States in World War I and outlines his "14 Points" for achieving a lasting peace in Europe.
1940 – On this day, a message from Benito Mussolini is forwarded to Adolf Hitler. In the missive, the Duce cautions the Fuhrer against waging war against Britain. Mussolini asked if it was truly necessary "to risk all-including the regime-and to sacrifice the flower of German generations."
1941 – One of Hollywood’s most famous clashes of the titans--an upstart “boy genius” filmmaker versus a furious 76-year-old newspaper tycoon--heats up on this day in 1941, when William Randolph Hearst forbids any of his newspapers to run advertisements for Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane.
1951 – Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow (the Bermuda Petrel) is rediscovered in Bermuda.
1967 – About 16,000 U.S. soldiers from the 1st and 25th Infantry Divisions, 173rd Airborne Brigade and 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment join 14,000 South Vietnamese troops to mount Operation Cedar Falls.
1973 – National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Hanoi’s Le Duc Tho resume Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris.
1976 – Zhou Enlai, premier of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1949, dies of cancer at the age of 77.
1996 – On this day in 1996, a cargo plane crashes in Kishasa, Zaire, (modern day Democratic Republic of the Congo) killing somewhere between 225 and 350 people and injuring another 500.
2011 – Congressman Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords is severely wounded in a leftist shooting rampage.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1360 – Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1410)
1821 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Turkey (d. 1904)
1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934)
1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1977)
Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
1877 – Outnumbered, low on ammunition, and forced to use outdated weapons to defend themselves, Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their final losing battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
1916 – On January 8, 1916, Allied forces stage a full retreat from the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, ending a disastrous invasion of the Ottoman Empire.
1916 – On this day in 1916 Rembrandt Bugatti, a sculptor and younger brother of Italian auto designer and manufacturer Ettore Bugatti, commits suicide at the age of 31.
1918 – In an address before a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson discusses the aims of the United States in World War I and outlines his "14 Points" for achieving a lasting peace in Europe.
1940 – On this day, a message from Benito Mussolini is forwarded to Adolf Hitler. In the missive, the Duce cautions the Fuhrer against waging war against Britain. Mussolini asked if it was truly necessary "to risk all-including the regime-and to sacrifice the flower of German generations."
1941 – One of Hollywood’s most famous clashes of the titans--an upstart “boy genius” filmmaker versus a furious 76-year-old newspaper tycoon--heats up on this day in 1941, when William Randolph Hearst forbids any of his newspapers to run advertisements for Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane.
1951 – Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow (the Bermuda Petrel) is rediscovered in Bermuda.
1967 – About 16,000 U.S. soldiers from the 1st and 25th Infantry Divisions, 173rd Airborne Brigade and 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment join 14,000 South Vietnamese troops to mount Operation Cedar Falls.
1973 – National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Hanoi’s Le Duc Tho resume Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris.
1976 – Zhou Enlai, premier of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1949, dies of cancer at the age of 77.
1996 – On this day in 1996, a cargo plane crashes in Kishasa, Zaire, (modern day Democratic Republic of the Congo) killing somewhere between 225 and 350 people and injuring another 500.
2011 – Congressman Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords is severely wounded in a leftist shooting rampage.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1360 – Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1410)
1821 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Turkey (d. 1904)
1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934)
1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1977)
Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
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