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
- 1780 –An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
- 1790 –George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 1806 –Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- 1811 –An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
- 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).
- 1867 –African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1961 –In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle’s policies in Algeria.
- 1962 –The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
- 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.
- 1964 –President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.
- 1979 –The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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.
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