Historical Events on January 8, Special Events on This Day

1. Birthday Age Calculator
2. Historical Events in January
3. Historical Events on January 8

Important Events From This day in History January 8th. Find Out What happened 8th January This Day in History on your birthday. Also you can find some answers for the following questions;
Which major historical events happened on January 8?
What happened on January 8th in history?
What special day is January 8?
What happened in history on January 8th?

What Happened on January 8th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.
2020	Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.
2016	Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
2016	West Air Sweden Flight 294 crashes near the Swedish reservoir of Akkajaure; both pilots, the only people on board, are killed.
2011	Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge.
2010	Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.
2009	A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
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, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2003	Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
2003	Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
2002	President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
1996	An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
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.
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.
1982	Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
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".
1977	Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
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.
1973	Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1973	Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1972	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.
1964	President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1961	In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1959	Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
1956	Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making first contact.
1946	Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Finnish Allied Commission, submitted to the Finnish War Criminal Court an interrogation report by General Erich Buschenhagen, a German prisoner of war, on the contacts between Finnish and German military personnel before the Continuation War and a copy of Hitler's Barbarossa plan.
1945	World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack invading Japanese Imperial forces.
1940	World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1936	Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.
1926	Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ is crowned emperor of Vietnam, the country's last monarch.
1926	Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
1920	The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
1918	U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1912	The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
1900	President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1889	Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
1877	Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
1867	The United States Congress passes the bill to allow African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1863	American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
1835	US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.
1828	The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
1815	War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1811	Charles Deslondes leads an unsuccessful slave revolt in the North American settlements of St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
1806	The Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes the British Cape Colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.
1790	George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
1746	Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1735	The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1547	The first Lithuanian-language book, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, is published in Königsberg.
1499	Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.
1454	The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.
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.
871	Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
307	Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.

Famous People Born on January 8

Here is a random list who born on January 8. For full list please click on the link above.

Year	Name
1909	Evelyn Wood, American author and educator (d. 1995)
1864	Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
1870	Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1930)
1942	Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (d. 2018)
1952	Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator
1933	Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1971	Jason Giambi, American baseball player
1587	Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1629)
1939	Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan-American fashion designer
1852	James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)

Famous People Deaths On January 8

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on January 8. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
482	Severinus of Noricum, Italian apostle and saint
2017	Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)
2008	George Moore, Australian jockey and trainer (b. 1923)
1941	Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general and founder of the Scout movement (b. 1857)
1997	Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1883	Miska Magyarics, Slovene-Hungarian poet (b. 1825)
1990	Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919)
2022	Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (b. 1944)
1456	Lawrence Giustiniani, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1381)
2003	Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)