About January 8
January 8, 2024 is the 8th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 33 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.
- 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.
- 1815 –War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- 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
- 1877 –Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- 1904 –The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
- 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.
- 1961 –In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle’s policies in Algeria.
- 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.
- 1982 –The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
- 1989 –Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
- 1994 –Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
- 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.
- 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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