January 8

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 8. From 1900 until now. January 8 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Elvis Presley (1935), Elvis Presley (1935) and David Bowie (1947). Several movies were released around January 8 over the years, such as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 directed by Ernst Lubitsch and His Girl Friday in 1940 directed by Howard Hawks.
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2019 Syrian Civil War: The military police of Russia says that it has started patrolling the area surrounding Manbij. (TASS)The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces say that they captured five foreign nationals who fought for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Two are reportedly from the United States, two from Pakistan and one from Ireland. (BBC)
2018 Pharmaceutical company Pfizer discontinues research into treating patients with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. (The Telegraph)
2017 January 2017 Jerusalem vehicular attack: A truck rams into a group of Israeli soldiers in a deliberate attack in East Jerusalem, killing four and wounding 21. The perpetrator was previously convicted of terrorism and was jailed for 10 years. (CNN) (The Guardian)
2016 2016 Hurghada attack: Two suspected ISIS militants are killed and three tourists injured in an unsuccessful attack on a hotel in the city of Hurghada. (BBC)
2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting: One of the suspects in the killings, Hamyd Mourad, voluntarily surrenders to police in Charleville-Mézières while the other two suspects are still at large. (The New York Times) (CNN)On the night of January 7 and morning of January 8, assailants throw grenades and fire guns at three mosques throughout France. (ForeignPolicy.com)
2014 South Yemen insurgency:: Two suspected Al-Qaeda militants are killed in a U.S. drone strike in the southeastern province of Hadhramaut. (Reuters)
2013 War in North-West Pakistan:: Four are killed and a further four are wounded in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan. (AFP)
2012 Piracy in Somalia: Georgia announces 15 Georgian sailors held hostage by pirates for over a year are released through the government's efforts. (AFP via Google News)
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.
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 African Cup of Nations, killing three.
2009 In Los Angeles, California, the Critics' Choice Awards are announced. Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire
2008 In New Hampshire, USA, the Democratic caucuses choose Hillary Clinton as candidate for the presidential election on November. The Republican caucuses choose John McCain.
2007 The United States Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal of Gilmore v. Gonzales, which was a challenge to travel papers and secret laws. (USAToday) (PapersPlease)
2006 An estimated two million Muslims officially begin the annual pilgrimage, or hajj, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (CNN).
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.
2004 The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2003 US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people aboard.
2002 IBM announces it will no longer manufacture desktop personal computers in most of the world. It will sell its desktop facilities in US and Europe to Sanmina-SCI.
2000 During the 1999–2000 NFL playoffs, one of the most memorable and debated plays in NFL history takes place at then-Adelphia Coliseum. The "Music City Miracle" was a last-minute trick play on a kickoff return that resulted in a touchdown and catapulted the Tennessee Titans past the Buffalo Bills to the Divisional Playoffs. It also ensured that the Titans would go undefeated in the first season in the team's new home. The victory is seen in front of a franchise-record crowd of 66,782.
1999 3.4 million copies of the film The Rescuers are recalled after a photo of a topless woman was discovered in two of the 110,000 frames of the movie.
1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
1997 Intel releases the 166 MHz and 200 MHz Pentium processors with MMX multimedia extension instructions. Bus speed is 66 MHz. They incorporate 4.5 million transistors. Performance of the 200 MHz version is 350 MIPS. Code-name during development was P55C. MMX originally stood for "matrix-multiplication extensions".
1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
1995 Guys & Dolls closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 performances
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
1992 US President George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.
1991 Davis Rules, with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
1989 42nd Street closes at Winter Garden Theater in New York City, New York after 3,486 performances.
1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points
1987 Dow Jones Industrial Index closes above 2,000 for first time (2,002.25).
1986 US President Ronald Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US.
1984 Washington Capitals Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
1983 A riot breaks out at Sing Sing prison, New York.
1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee
1981 Pirates of Penzance opens at Uris Theater in New York City, New York for 772 performances.
1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
1978 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.
1977 Three bombs went off in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
1976 Franklin Mint strikes first gold coins for Netherlands Antilles.
1975 US Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.
1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
1973 Tricks opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances
1972 Kenneth Patchen, American writer (See You in the Morning), dies at age 60.
1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established.
1968 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay.ref name=quotWilson after-dinner speechquotJohn Chartres, quotWilson Joins 'I Back Britain'quot, ''The Times'', 9 January 1968, p. 1.
1967 Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts.
1966 Who and the Kinks perform on the last Shindig TV show on ABC
1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History.
1964 European Parliament accepts Mansholt Plan.
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.
1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, first pro appearance, comes in 50th.
1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters.
1959 Charles De Gaulle is inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic.
1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana.
1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken.
1955 WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1952 Jordan adopts constitution.
1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda.
1949 Make Mine Manhattan play closes at Broadhurst Theater in New York City, New York after 429 performances.
1947 Toronto Maple Leafs' rookie Howie Meeker scores five goals in a game.
1945 Youth for Christ organizes
1944 WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces.
1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns.
1940 World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1937 -50 degrees F (-45.6 degrees C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record low).
1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy.
1934 Jaap Speyers Bluejackets premieres in Amsterdam
1932 Ratification of present SF City Charter
1931 Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City
1925 1st all-female US State Supreme Court appointed, Texas
1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam
1918 Mississippi becomes first state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition).
1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy.
1913 Frank Chance becomes New York Yankees manager.
1906 A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen.
1902 A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and led to the banning of Steam locomotives in the state.
1901 New South Wales score 918 all out versus South Australia in 560 minutes.
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