The 8t o Januar is the 8t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 357 days ti come (358 in lowp years).
1815: Battle o New Orleans 1912 : Banner o the African Naitional Congress1297 - Monaco gains unthirldom.
1697 - Thomas Aikenhead becomes the last body in Scotland tae be executit for blasphemy .
1746 - Second Jacobite Uprisin: Charles Edward Stuart occupies Stirlin .
1790 - George Washington delivers his first State o the Union address.
1815 - Withoot kennin that the Peace o Ghent hae been signed, American troops defeat the Breetish at the Battle o New Orleans , endin the War o 1812 .
1912 - The African Naitional Congress, current governin pairty o Sooth Africae , is foondit.
1916 - US Preses Woodrow Wilson propales his "Fourteen Points" programme for the aftermath o Warld War I .
1940 - The Unitit Kinrick introduces food rations.
1959 - Charles de Gaulle becomes Preses o Fraunce .
1973 - The Soviet Union launches the Luna 21 probe.
1989 - The Kegworth Air Disaster in Leicestershire kills 47 fowk.
1996 - A plane crash in Kinshasa , in then-Zaire, kills 327 fowk.
2010 - Togo 's naitional fitbaa team is attackit in Cabinda, Angolae .
2011 - Six fowk are kilt in a shuitin in Tucson, Arizona . Congress member Gabrielle Giffords is severely injured.
2020 - Ukraine Internaitional Airlines Flicht 752 is shot doon in error shortly efter tak-aff frae Tehran , Iran , at a time o escalatin tensions in the region; 176 fowk are kilt. Elvis Presley David Bowie 1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera , Spaingie politeecian (d. 1930 )
1891 - Walther Bothe , German pheesicist (d. 1957 )
1933 - Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Egyptian actress (d. 2014)
1934 - Jacques Anquetil , French cyclist (d. 1987)
1935 - Elvis Presley , American sangster an actor (d. 1977)
1942 - Stephen Hawking , Inglis pheesicist (d. 2018)
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi , umwhile Prime meenister o Japan
1947 - David Bowie , Inglis sangster (d. 2016)
1967 - R. Kelly , American sangster, rapper an record producer
1983 - Kim Jong-un , leader o North Korea
1986 - David Silva , Spaingie fitbawer
1992 - Kenny McLean , Scots fitbawer
1999 - Damiano David, Italian sangster, frontman o Måneskin1107 - Edgar, Keeng o Scots (b. 1084)
1198 - Pape Celestine III (b. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo , Italian splorer
1337 - Giotto, Italian penter an airchitect (b. 1266)
1642 - Galileo Galilei , Italian scientist (b. 1564)
1941 - Robert Baden-Powell , 1st Baron Baden-Powell (b. 1857)
1976 - Zhou Enlai , Cheenese politeecian (b. 1898 )
1996 - François Mitterrand , Preses o Fraunce (b. 1916 )
2002 - Alexander Prokhorov , Soviet-Roushie pheesicist (b. 1916 )
2015 - Andraé Crouch , American sangster an producer (b. 1942 )
2017 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , Preses o Iran (b. 1934 )
2020 - Infanta María del Pilar, Duchess o Badajoz (b. 1936 ) Banner o the Northren Mariana Islands
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