Notable Historical Events on January 8th
January 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
794 |
Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island |
871 |
Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred (the Great) beat invading Danish army |
1198 |
Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III |
1214 |
Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France |
1297 |
Monaco gains its independence. |
1558 |
French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais |
1598 |
Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy |
1656 |
Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) |
1675 |
1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co) |
1705 |
George F Handel's 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg |
1716 |
Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested |
1734 |
Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. |
1745 |
England, Austria, Neth & Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance |
1746 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling [NS=Jan 19] |
1760 |
Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth |
1790 |
1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address |
1798 |
11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed |
1800 |
Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi |
1800 |
Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France |
1806 |
Cape colony becomes British colony |
1806 |
Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon |
1811 |
Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast |
1815 |
Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812); the war had ended on 24th December 1814 but none of the combatants knew |
1833 |
Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established |
1835 |
The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time. |
1838 |
Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out |
1842 |
Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft |
1848 |
Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia |
1853 |
1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington |
1856 |
Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif |
1857 |
Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC |
1863 |
American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield |
1867 |
African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Johnson's veto |
1870 |
US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins |
1877 |
Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory). |
1878 |
Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley |
1884 |
Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz |
1889 |
Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine |
1894 |
Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire |
1897 |
Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship |
1901 |
New South Wales score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes |
1902 |
1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill) |
1902 |
The United Irish League, a leading force for unification in all Ireland and independence from Britain, holds its convention in Dublin |
1904 |
Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen |
1906 |
A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people. |
1912 |
Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms |
1913 |
Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager |
1916 |
World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli. |
1917 |
Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy |
1918 |
Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition) |
1918 |
Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after the Great War |
1923 |
Typography strike in Amsterdam |
1925 |
1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas |
1926 |
Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia |
1929 |
1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies |
1929 |
CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC |
1931 |
Phila Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses |
1932 |
Ratification of present SF City Charter |
1934 |
Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam |
1935 |
Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy |
1937 |
-50°F (-45.6°C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record) |
1938 |
Bradman scores 107 for South Australia v Qld (1st innings) |
1940 |
Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar) |
1940 |
World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. |
1942 |
British Air Marshal Richard Peirse replaced as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Bomber Command |
1945 |
"Youth for Christ" organizes |
1947 |
Gen George Marshall becomes US Secretary of State |
1947 |
Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game |
1948 |
Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason |
1949 |
"Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 429 perfs |
1949 |
"My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 95 performances |
1949 |
"Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 134 performances |
1951 |
Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda |
1952 |
Jordan adopts constitution |
1953 |
Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts) |
1953 |
René Mayer forms French government |
1954 |
Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way" |
1955 |
Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt |
1955 |
Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak |
1955 |
Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open |
1955 |
WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken |
1956 |
Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single) |
1956 |
Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. |
1958 |
Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana |
1959 |
Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic |
1961 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters |
1962 |
Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth) |
1962 |
Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th |
1963 |
"Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art |
1963 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga |
1964 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on Poverty" |
1965 |
Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the American natonal flower (doesn't pass) |
1965 |
Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History |
1966 |
Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
1966 |
Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks |
1966 |
Georges Pompidou re-appointed French Prime Minister and forms new government |
1966 |
Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC |
1968 |
Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV |
1968 |
Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, travelles to Dublin to meet with Jack Lynch, Irish Prime Minister, to continue discussions on matters of joint interest to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland |
1971 |
29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, Calif |
1971 |
Voyageurs National Park, Minn established |
1972 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
1972 |
NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall |
1973 |
"Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1973 |
Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG |
1973 |
Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris |
1973 |
USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing |
1974 |
E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC |
1974 |
Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London |
1974 |
Loch Ness Monster photographed |
1974 |
Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York |
1975 |
Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison |
1976 |
Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles |
1978 |
Israeli government votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai |
1978 |
Harvey Milk becomes the 1st openly gay person elected to public office in California |
1979 |
512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up |
1979 |
Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord |
1979 |
Today Show gets a new theme song |
1979 |
Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh |
1980 |
Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0 |
1980 |
NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports |
1981 |
"Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances |
1981 |
India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia |
1981 |
Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner) |
1982 |
AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies |
1982 |
Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee |
1982 |
Justice Dept withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since |
1984 |
NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams |
1984 |
Wash Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Phila 7-1 |
1985 |
Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet |
1986 |
Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year |
1987 |
Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25) |
1987 |
Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
1988 |
9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit |
1988 |
Dow Jones down 140.58 points |
1988 |
Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator |
1988 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
1989 |
"42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs |
1989 |
"Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs |
1989 |
Boeing 737-400 crashes at Kegworth, England, 46 die |
1989 |
Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons |
1989 |
Beginning of Japanese Heisei era. |
1991 |
"Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV |
1991 |
Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame |
1991 |
Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try |
1991 |
Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36) |
1992 |
George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap |
1993 |
Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point |
1993 |
Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale |
1993 |
NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman |
1994 |
Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60) |
1994 |
Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit |
1994 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis |
1995 |
"Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 perfs |
1995 |
15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000 |
1995 |
Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1996 |
Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths |
1996 |
For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1998 |
NY Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position |
1998 |
Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer |
1998 |
World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life |
2000 |
"Music City Miracle", with 16 seconds left in the AFC Wild Card Playoff Game, the Tennessee Titans' Lorenzo Neal handed the ball to Frank Wycheck, who then lateraled the ball across the width of the field to his teammate, Kevin Dyson, who in turn ran the length of the field down the sideline for the game-winning touchdown to defeat the Buffalo Bills 22-16 |
2001 |
28th American Music Award: Faith Hill & Kid Rock win |
2002 |
President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. |
2004 |
The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. |
2006 |
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea. |
2008 |
New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so. |
2008 |
34th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Reese Witherspoon win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Katherine Heigl win (TV) |
2008 |
Joe Gibbs retires, for the second time, as head coach of the Washington Redskins |
2009 |
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault. |
2011 |
Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords |
2012 |
"The 3:16 Game", the Denver Broncos' Tim Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first scrimmage play of overtime, giving the underdog Broncos a 29—23 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Wild Card Playoff Game |
2013 |
130 wildfires across Australia's east coast force thousands to evacuate their homes |
2013 |
2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government are exchanged for 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels |
2013 |
Steve Nash records his 10,000th career assist against Houston |
2014 |
40th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Josh Charles & Stana Katić win (Dramatic TV) |
2016 |
'Mission accomplished': Mexican President says 'El Chapo' caught |
2017 |
Suicide Bombing in Baghdad Kills at Least 36 |
2017 |
Thousands of Mexicans protest gasoline price hikes |
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