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

  • 1734 –
    Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
  • 1746 –
    Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
  • 1806 –
    Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
  • 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.
  • 1904 –
    The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • 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.
  • 1940 –
    World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
  • 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.
  • 1962 –
    The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
  • 1971 –
    Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
  • 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.
  • 1979 –
    The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
  • 2002 –
    President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
  • 2003 –
    Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
  • 2004 –
    The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake’s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
  • 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.

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