January 8th

794
Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island.
Viking Age
2011
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot and critically wounded when a gunman opened fire as the congresswoman met with constituents in Tucson; six people were killed and 12 others were injured. (Jared Lee Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges in connection with the shooting.).
2011 Tucson shooting
2007
A Moroccan man convicted of aiding three of the four pilots who committed the 9/11 attacks was sentenced by a German court to the maximum 15 years in prison.
Zacarias Moussaoui
1998
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
Ramzi Yousef
1994
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov beings his record spaceflight. Polyakov stayed aboard the Mir space station for a record-breaking 437 days and 18 hours.
Valeri Polyakov
1987
The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 2,000 for the first time, ending the day at 2,002.25.
Tommy Maddox
1982
The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven 'Baby Bells.'.
1982 (Statik Selektah and Termanology album)
1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty.
War on Poverty
1959
Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.
French Fifth Republic
1958
Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.
Bobby Fischer
1956
Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single goes #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single).
1918
President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for peace after World War I.
Fourteen Points
1916
WWI: ANZAC forces withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople.
Gallipoli Campaign
1912
The African National Congress was founded in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
African National Congress
1889
Computer pioneer Herman Hollerith patents his punched card calculator. His invention paved the way for modern automatic computation.
Herman Hollerith
1835
The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
History of the United States public debt
1815
U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.
Battle of New Orleans
1790
1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address.
1790 State of the Union Address
1656
Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands).
List of the oldest newspapers
1642
Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.
Galileo Galilei
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