Tukuk-OS📅 January 8
17 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on January 8? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2011 — Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a public meeting held by U.S. representative Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people and injuring twelve others.
- 2010 — Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, killing three people.
Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of CabindaTogo national football team attackTogo national football team
- 1991 — Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in Richardson, Texas, an event that inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy".
- 1981 — In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
- 1977 — Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37 people.
- 1972 — Following Pakistan's defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) from prison in response to international pressure.
Pakistani Instrument of SurrenderBangladesh Liberation WarZulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1956 — Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- 1939 — The New Deal for Aborigines was formally announced by the Australian government, providing for full civil rights for Indigenous Australians in exchange for cultural assimilation.
New Deal for AboriginesIndigenous AustraliansCultural assimilation
- 1936 — Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public.
- 1928 — The Committee for Union Action is established in Guatemala.
- 1918 — U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe.
- 1904 — Blackstone Library (pictured), the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.
- 1889 — American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electromechanical tabulating machine for punched-card data.
- 1790 — George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
- 1735 — George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre (pictured) in London.
- 1697 — Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy.
- 1198 — Lotario dei Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
Births
- 2001 — Zach Charbonnet, American football player
- 2000 — Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, and actress
- 1999 — Ignas Brazdeikis, Lithuanian-Canadian basketball player
- 1999 — Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1998 — Tony Bradley, American basketball player
- 1998 — Jhoan Durán, Dominican baseball player
- 1995 — Ryan Destiny, American actress and singer
- 1994 — Glenn Robinson III, American basketball player
- 1993 — William Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1993 — Sophie Pascoe, New Zealand swimmer
- 1992 — Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player
- 1992 — Koke, Spanish footballer
Deaths
- 2025 — Mangkra Souvanna Phouma, Laotian prince (born 1938)
- 2024 — Adan Canto, Mexican actor (born 1981)
- 2022 — Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (born 1944)
- 2021 — Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (born 1922)
- 2020 — Pat Dalton, Australian footballer (born 1942)
- 2020 — Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (born 1930)
- 2017 — Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (born 1925)
- 2017 — James Mancham, Seychellois politician, President 1976-77 (born 1939)
- 2017 — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (born 1934)
- 2017 — Peter Sarstedt, Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
- 2016 — Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (born 1926)
- 2016 — German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (born 1933)
Observances & holidays
- Babinden (Belarus, Russia)
- Christian feast day: Abo of Tiflis
- Christian feast day: Apollinaris Claudius
- Christian feast day: Blessed Eurosia Fabris
- Christian feast day: Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)
- Christian feast day: Gudula
- Christian feast day: Harriet Bedell (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Christian feast day: Lawrence Giustiniani
- Christian feast day: Lucian of Beauvais
- Christian feast day: Maximus of Pavia
- Christian feast day: Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Roman Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: Pega (Anglican and Roman Catholic churches)
- Christian feast day: Severinus of Noricum
- Christian feast day: Thorfinn of Hamar
- Christian feast day: January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in January. (Thailand)
- Typing Day (International observance)
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