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January 8 Events in History - January 8 Birthdays - January 8 Deaths
January 8, 1998 New York Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
January 8, 1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
January 8, 1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
January 8, 1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
January 8, 1996 Blizzard buries eastern U.S. causing at least 50 deaths
January 8, 1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
January 8, 1995 "Guys and Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1143 performances
January 8, 1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
January 8, 1995 Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
January 8, 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
January 8, 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
January 8, 1994 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
January 8, 1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
January 8, 1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
January 8, 1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
January 8, 1992 George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
January 8, 1991 "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
January 8, 1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
January 8, 1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
January 8, 1991 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
January 8, 1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 3,486 performances
January 8, 1989 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 761 performances
January 8, 1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
January 8, 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
January 8, 1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit
January 8, 1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points
January 8, 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
January 8, 1988 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
January 8, 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
January 8, 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
January 8, 1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
January 8, 1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
January 8, 1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
January 8, 1984 Washington Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
January 8, 1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
January 8, 1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee
January 8, 1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM
January 8, 1981 "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 772 performances
January 8, 1981 India all out 63 in one-day international vs. Australia
January 8, 1981 Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
January 8, 1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
January 8, 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
January 8, 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
January 8, 1979 Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
January 8, 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song
January 8, 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
January 8, 1978 Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
January 8, 1976 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
January 8, 1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
January 8, 1974 E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in New York City
January 8, 1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
January 8, 1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
January 8, 1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
January 8, 1973 "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 8 performances
January 8, 1973 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs. Pakistan at SCG
January 8, 1973 Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris
January 8, 1973 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
January 8, 1972 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
January 8, 1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
January 8, 1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California
January 8, 1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established
January 8, 1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on U.S. network TV
January 8, 1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks
January 8, 1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
January 8, 1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
January 8, 1966 Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
January 8, 1965 Sen Dirksen proposes marigold as national flower (didn't pass)
January 8, 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
January 8, 1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan
January 8, 1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
January 8, 1963 "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
January 8, 1963 Dmitri Shostakovitch' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga
January 8, 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
January 8, 1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th
January 8, 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
January 8, 1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic
January 8, 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
January 8, 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
January 8, 1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
January 8, 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
January 8, 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
January 8, 1955 Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open
January 8, 1955 WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
January 8, 1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
January 8, 1953 Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
January 8, 1953 Rene Mayer forms French government
January 8, 1952 Jordan adopts constitution
January 8, 1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
January 8, 1949 "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 429 performances
January 8, 1949 "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 95 performances
January 8, 1949 "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 134 performances
January 8, 1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
January 8, 1947 Gen George Marshall becomes Secretary of State
January 8, 1947 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
January 8, 1945 "Youth for Christ" organizes
January 8, 1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
January 8, 1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter and sugar)
January 8, 1938 Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Qld (1st innings)
January 8, 1937 -50 degrees F (-45.6 degrees C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record)
January 8, 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
January 8, 1934 Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
January 8, 1932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter
January 8, 1931 Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
January 8, 1930 Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto
January 8, 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies
January 8, 1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City
January 8, 1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia
January 8, 1925 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas
January 8, 1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam
January 8, 1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
January 8, 1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I
January 8, 1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
January 8, 1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
January 8, 1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
January 8, 1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
January 8, 1901 NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
January 8, 1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship
January 8, 1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
January 8, 1889 1st Computer patented
January 8, 1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine
January 8, 1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
January 8, 1878 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley
January 8, 1870 U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
January 8, 1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
January 8, 1865 Sen Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower
January 8, 1857 Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in New York City
January 8, 1856 Dr. John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California
January 8, 1853 1st U.S. bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash
January 8, 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
January 8, 1842 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
January 8, 1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ)
January 8, 1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
January 8, 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established
January 8, 1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members
January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
January 8, 1806 Cape colony becomes English colony
January 8, 1806 Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
January 8, 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi
January 8, 1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
January 8, 1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
January 8, 1790 George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or Jan 4)
January 8, 1760 Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
January 8, 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
January 8, 1745 England, Austria, Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
January 8, 1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
January 8, 1705 Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg
January 8, 1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co)
January 8, 1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
January 8, 1598 Genoa Italy expels Jews
January 8, 1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
January 8, 1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais
January 8, 1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown
January 8, 1214 Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France
January 8, 1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
January 8, 871 Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
January 8, 794 Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island
January 8, 624 Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan



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