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Events on the 8th of January in history

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08 Jan 0307 Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
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08 Jan 0387 Siyaj K'ak' conquers Waka
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08 Jan 0624 Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan
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08 Jan 0794 Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island
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08 Jan 0871 Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
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08 Jan 0871 Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
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08 Jan 1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
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08 Jan 1214 Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France
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08 Jan 1297 François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
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08 Jan 1454 The papal bull Romanus Pontifex is written.
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08 Jan 1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown
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08 Jan 1499 Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
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08 Jan 1558 French troops under Duke de Guise occupy Calais
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08 Jan 1598 Genoa Italy expels Jews
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08 Jan 1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
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08 Jan 1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
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08 Jan 1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
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08 Jan 1697 Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
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08 Jan 1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
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08 Jan 1735 Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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08 Jan 1745 England, Austria, Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
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08 Jan 1746 Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
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08 Jan 1760 Comet C / 1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
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08 Jan 1790 George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or Jan 4)
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08 Jan 1790 George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
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08 Jan 1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
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08 Jan 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi
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08 Jan 1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
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08 Jan 1806 Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
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08 Jan 1811 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast
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08 Jan 1811 An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
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08 Jan 1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12 / 24 / 1814 but nobody knew
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08 Jan 1815 War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
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08 Jan 1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members
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08 Jan 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
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08 Jan 1835 The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
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08 Jan 1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ)
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08 Jan 1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
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08 Jan 1842 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
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08 Jan 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
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08 Jan 1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington
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08 Jan 1856 Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California
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08 Jan 1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
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08 Jan 1865 Sen Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the National flower
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08 Jan 1867 African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
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08 Jan 1870 US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
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08 Jan 1877 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
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08 Jan 1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
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08 Jan 1889 1st Computer patented
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08 Jan 1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine
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08 Jan 1889 Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
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08 Jan 1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship
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08 Jan 1901 New South Wales score 918 all out vs. South Australia in 560 minutes
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08 Jan 1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
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08 Jan 1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
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08 Jan 1904 The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
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08 Jan 1906 A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
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08 Jan 1912 The African National Congress is founded.
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08 Jan 1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
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08 Jan 1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
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08 Jan 1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
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08 Jan 1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WWI
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08 Jan 1918 President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
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08 Jan 1920 The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
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08 Jan 1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam
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08 Jan 1925 1st all-female US State Supreme Court appointed, Texas
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08 Jan 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies
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08 Jan 1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City
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08 Jan 1931 Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
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08 Jan 1932 Ratification of present SF City Charter
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08 Jan 1934 Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
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08 Jan 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
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08 Jan 1938 Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Queensland (1st innings)
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08 Jan 1940 World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
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08 Jan 1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
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08 Jan 1945 "Youth for Christ" organizes
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08 Jan 1945 World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
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08 Jan 1947 Gen George Marshall becomes Secretary of State
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08 Jan 1947 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
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08 Jan 1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
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08 Jan 1949 "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 429 performances
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08 Jan 1949 "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 95 performances
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08 Jan 1949 "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 134 performances
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08 Jan 1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
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08 Jan 1952 Jordan adopts constitution
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08 Jan 1953 Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
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08 Jan 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
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08 Jan 1955 Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open
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08 Jan 1955 WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Jan 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
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08 Jan 1956 Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
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08 Jan 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
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08 Jan 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
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08 Jan 1961 In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
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08 Jan 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
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08 Jan 1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th
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08 Jan 1962 The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
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08 Jan 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.
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08 Jan 1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan
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08 Jan 1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
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08 Jan 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
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08 Jan 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
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08 Jan 1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French Premier
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08 Jan 1966 Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
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08 Jan 1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California
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08 Jan 1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minn established
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08 Jan 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.
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08 Jan 1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
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08 Jan 1973 "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances
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08 Jan 1973 Secret peace talks between US and North Vietnam resumed near Paris
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08 Jan 1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
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08 Jan 1973 Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
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08 Jan 1973 Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
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08 Jan 1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
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08 Jan 1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
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08 Jan 1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
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08 Jan 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.
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08 Jan 1976 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
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08 Jan 1977 Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
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08 Jan 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
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08 Jan 1979 Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
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08 Jan 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song
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08 Jan 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
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08 Jan 1979 The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
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08 Jan 1981 "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances
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08 Jan 1981 India all out 63 in one-day international vs. Australia
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08 Jan 1981 Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
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08 Jan 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".
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08 Jan 1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
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08 Jan 1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee
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08 Jan 1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since
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08 Jan 1982 Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
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08 Jan 1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
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08 Jan 1984 Washington Capitals Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
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08 Jan 1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
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08 Jan 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
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08 Jan 1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873 - Chicago at Detroit
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08 Jan 1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points
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08 Jan 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
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08 Jan 1988 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
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08 Jan 1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances
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08 Jan 1989 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 performances
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08 Jan 1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
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08 Jan 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
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08 Jan 1989 Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
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08 Jan 1989 Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
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08 Jan 1991 "Davis Rules, " with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
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08 Jan 1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
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08 Jan 1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
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08 Jan 1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
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08 Jan 1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
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08 Jan 1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
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08 Jan 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
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08 Jan 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
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08 Jan 1994 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
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08 Jan 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.
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08 Jan 1995 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 performances
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08 Jan 1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
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08 Jan 1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
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08 Jan 1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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08 Jan 1996 An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 237 on the ground; the aircraft's crew of six survive the crash.
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08 Jan 1998 New York Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
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08 Jan 1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
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08 Jan 1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
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08 Jan 1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
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08 Jan 2002 President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
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08 Jan 2003 Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
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08 Jan 2003 Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
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08 Jan 2004 The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
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08 Jan 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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08 Jan 2009 A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
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08 Jan 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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08 Jan 2011 The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
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