What Happened On Jan 8 Events

In 1323, Polo was confined to bed, due to illness. On January 8, 1324, despite physicians' efforts to treat him, Polo was on his deathbed. To write and certify the will, his family reques...

Jackson's service in the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom was conspicuous for bravery and success. When British forces threatened New Orleans, Jackson took command of the defenses, ...

On January 8, 1815, Major General Andrew Jackson led a small, poorly-equipped army to victory against eight thousand British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. The victory made Jackson ...

The Treaty of Doak's Stand (7 Stat. 210, also known as Treaty with the Choctaw) was signed on October 18, 1820 (proclaimed on January 8, 1821) between the United States and the Choctaw In...

The Battle of Rio San Gabriel was a decisive action of the California campaign of the Mexican-American War and occurred at the sites of present-day Montebello and Pico Rivera on January 8...

The Battle of Roan's Tan Yard (also known as Silver Creek) was an action during the American Civil War, occurring on January 8, 1862, in Randolph County, Missouri. Rumors and sightings o...

The Second Battle of Springfield was a battle in the American Civil War fought January 8, 1863, in Springfield, Missouri. It is sometimes known as The Battle of Springfield. (The First Ba...

Arrest and trial On December 29, 1863, Dodd was stopped by a Union sentry in west Little Rock, near Ten Mile House on Stagecoach Road, and was discovered to be without a pass. For iden...

The Battle of Dove Creek was a small engagement during the American Civil War that took place January 8, 1865, along Dove Creek in what is now southwest Tom Green County, Texas. Texan sol...

British Army at Kut-El-Amara Surrenders After 143 Days' Siege Relief Army of 90,000 from India Fails to Unite with Gen. Townshend's Forces British Garrison, 9,000 General Townshend...

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977; middle name sometimes spelled Aron)a was an American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is...

Wrestler Joe Skopapolous, together with his manager, Ed, and his trainers, Popeye and Shiner, arrives in a small town in the Ozarks hoping to promote a wrestling match. Things look hopele...

For his eleventh birthday, Presley received his first guitar. He had wanted a rifle but his parents could only afford a guitar. Over the following year, Vernon's brother, Vester, gave Elv...

David Bowie born David Robert Hayward-Jones; 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Active in five decades of popular music and frequently reinventin...

On January 8, 1959, Castro's army rolled victoriously into Havana. As news of the fall of Batista's government spread through Havana, The New York Times described the scene as one of jubi...

It was shortly before twenty past nine in the morning of Monday January 8, 1962 when a train bound for Amsterdam was snaking through the junction. Consisting of two electric multiple unit...

Operation Crimp—also known as the Battle of the Ho Bo Woods—was a joint US-Australian military operation during the Vietnam War in the Ho Bo Woods, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Cu Chi i...

Operation Cedar Falls was a military operation of the Vietnam War conducted primarily by US forces. The aim of this massive search and destroy operation was to eradicate the so-called "Ir...

Promised Land is a 1975 album by Elvis Presley. It was recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records studios in Memphis. These were the last recording sessions that Presley had in Memphis, wh...

A TERRIFYING rumbling shattering a still winter’s night, was the prelude to Ireland’s worst maritime disaster, a quarter of a century ago.The subsequent explosion aboard the ill-fated sup...

An incomplete version of this episode had been circulating among the fans until 1998, when the next-to-last host segment and some of the movie commentary after it were finally found. M...

At the time of his death, Clark was on a six-month leave of absence from Def Leppard. On January 8, 1991, Clark was found dead on his couch by his girlfriend Janie Dean. He was 30 year...

"The Subway" is the thirtieth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 13th episode for the show's third season. It aired on January 8, 1992. The episode was written by Larr...

Jan. 8, 1994, at Detroit. With the Packers trailing 24-21 in the final minute of a Wild Card playoff game, Favre rolls to his left and throws across his body, completing a 40-yard pass to...

UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on January 8, 1999 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event was seen live o...

On January 8, 2005, Muhammad Ali was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W. Bush. The Presidential Citizens Medal is the second highest civilian award in...

"30 Something" is the third single from Jay-Z's album Kingdom Come and was produced by Dr. Dre. The main theme of the song is Jay undermining "flossin" as pertaining to the general view o...

The Best of N.W.A: The Strength of Street Knowledge is a greatest hits compilation of N.W.A material. It contains some of their old hits and remixes. There is also a Deluxe 20th Anniversa...

"4 Years, 6 Months, 2 Days" is the first episode of the fifth season of the television series One Tree Hill, and eighty-ninth episode in total. The episode premiered on the The CW on Janu...

The Maldives (en-us-Maldives.ogg /ˈmɒldaɪvz/ (help·info) or /ˈmɒldiːvz/), or Maldive Islands, officially Republic of Maldives, is an island country in the Indian Ocean formed by a double ...

A radar study recently released supports eight witness reports of an unidentified object in Stephenville, Texas, and the surrounding area on January 8, 2008. Robert Powell, MUFON nati...

In early 2008, Swift donated the pink Chevy pick-up truck given to her by her record label to children’s charity, the Victory Junction Gang; in June, 2008, Swift donated all the proceeds ...

After a two-goal burst to start the night devolved into giveaways, failed races for pucks, and ragged play, Claude Julien did what comes naturally to a coach disappointed with his team's ...

Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris told state lawmakers investigating the possible impeachment that he did not act unethically in being appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacat...

ATLANTA - After being outrebounded by Atlanta, 47-29, in a loss last month, the Celtics’ game plan going into last night was to hit the boards. The Celtics followed that strategy in th...

Now that's what a rivalry game is supposed to feel like. Elbows were flying, heated words were exchanged, technical fouls were assessed. And when it was all done, the Milwaukee Buck...

He has seen them work together in the starting lineup for 15 games now, and Kurt Rambis sounds convinced: Al Jefferson and Kevin Love, despite their similarities, can coexist. But ther...

Jean Coutu Group hopes its expansion program will help the Quebec-based pharmacy giant maintain its upward sales momentum, which got a short-term boost last fall from concerns over the H1...

Giffords, who has been in Congress since 2006 and is Arizona's first Jewish representative, is married to astronaut Mark Kelly. (Click for that story.) In March of last year, her Tucson o...

ORIGINAL LIST 1. Johnny Cash 2. Rod Blagojevich 3. Andy Kaufman 4. Shawn Klush 5. Young (Really Young) Elvis 6. Eric Bressi 7. Junichiro Koizumi 8. Pete ...

The assistant coach of Togo's national soccer team is among the victims of Friday's machine-gun attack on a bus carrying the squad to a tournament in Angola, the country's official news a...

Sarah Palin, who's been taking flak because of a SarahPac map that put Gabrielle Giffords' district in its crosshairs (literally), issued a quick Facebook statement today offering "sincer...

Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is out of surgery after being shot while hosting a public event today, and a Tucson surgeon said he was "very optimistic" she would survive but th...