Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 8
This is a list of selected January 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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The reconstructed frame of Nate Saint's plane used in Operation Auca -
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Memorial to the victims of the Betelgeuse explosion
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1198 – Lotario de Conti became Pope Innocent III. His first act was the restoration of the papal power in Rome. | Tagged with {{lead too short}} |
| 1806 – British forces engaged the Batavian Republic at Battle of Blaauwberg, eventually establishing British rule in the Cape Colony. | Battle needs more footnotes, Colony has no footnotes |
| 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post-World War I peace in Europe. | {{essay}} |
| 1964 – During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" | unreferenced section |
| 1989 – British Midland Flight 92 crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, Leicestershire, UK, killing 47 people and injuring 79 others. | {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1790 – George Washington delivered the first ever State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
- 1815 – American forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans, two weeks after the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the War of 1812.
- 1889 – Statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine, the precursor to modern computers.
- 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.
- 1979 – The oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal off Bantry Bay, Ireland, killing approximately 50 people (memorial pictured).
- 2004 – RMS Queen Mary 2, at the time the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
- 2011 – In Tucson, Arizona, US, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire on an outdoor public meeting, killing six people and injuring twelve others.
January 8: Kim Jong-un's Birthday in North Korea
- 1297 – Francesco Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
- 1746 – During the Second Jacobite Rising, Bonnie Prince Charlie occupied the town of Stirling, Scotland, but failed to capture its castle.
- 1904 – Blackstone Library (pictured), the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.
- 1920 – The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I, collapsed in complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
- 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashed in extensive fog during final approach to Diyarbakır Airport in Turkey, leaving only five survivors out of 80 people on board.
- 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, killing three.