January 8th

The January 8th is the 8th Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 357 days before the end of the year (358 so bissextile).

Events

1 with 1900

20th century

  • 1902 : In China, the court reinstates the prohibited quoted of Beijing; the empress Cixi takes again the businesses in hands.
  • 1910 : First of Zigeunerliebe ( the Love gypsy ) of Franz Lehár in Karlstheater of Vienna.
  • 1912 : Isaka Sows, Zulu lawyer, founder of the African National Congress.
  • 1914 : The Middlessex hospital of London uses for the first time the Radium to look after the Cancer.
  • 1915 : Violent one engagements close to the channel of Adze, in Belgium, and close to Soissons, in France.
  • 1916 : The Turkish troops knew to hold head, in the Dardanelles, with the Franco-British attacks. It is officially the abandonment of the allied offensive.
  • 1918 :
  • 1923 : The France occupies the the Ruhr militarily.
  • 1926 : Ibn Saud, king of the Hedjaz, gives to the kingdom the name Saudi Arabia.
  • 1953 : Riots with Karachi with the Pakistan.
  • 1954 : Arrival with Sarnia, in Ontario, of the first oil conveyed by Pipeline since the Alberta.
  • 1956 : Operation Auca: five American missionaries are massacred by the indigenous tribe of the Huaorani in Ecuador, to be entered shortly after in contact with them.
  • 1959 :
  • 1961 : Yes with the two simultaneous referendums (metropolis and Algeria) on the self-determination of Algeria
  • 1968: Incidents during the inauguration of the swimming pool of Nanterre by François Missoffe, Minister for youth and the sports.
  • 1971 : The English ambassador in Uruguay, Geoffrey Jackson, is removed by terrorists Tupamaros; he will be held eight month.
  • 1972 : Released by the Pakistani, Mujibur Rahman, directing Bangladesh, arrives at London and claims the recognition of the new State.
  • 1974 : The Khmer Rouge intensify their pressure on Phnom Penh by attacks in the North and the South of the Kampuchean capital.
  • 1979 : with the quay of GULF Oil, with Bantry in Ireland, the explosion of the French tanker Bételgeuse makes fifty dead.
  • 1986 : with Port-au-Prince, confrontations between students and police officers; the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier will be driven out in February.
  • 1988 : The Soviet leader critical Mikhaïl Gorbatchev those which trail the feet as those which want to go too quickly as regards reforms.
  • 1990 : A train does not brake rather quickly and strikes the stop in end of station platform of Canon Street in the center of London making two died and 247 wounded.
  • 1991 :
    • By a unilateral and illegal act, the Serb national bank - invested by a secret and unilateral vote of the Parliament of the republic of Serbia on December 28th 1990 - operates a diversion without precedent in the monetary system Yugoslav. Not less than 18,2 billion scriptural silver dinars (1,8 billion dollar) are placed illegally at the disposal of the central bank of Serbia without these means having the least legal cover. The first federal minister, Ante Marković, will qualify this act of “plundering of the century”, considering that it signs the death warrant of the Yugoslav federation.
    • the Side American World Airways, founded in 1919, cannot support competition any more and calls upon the law of the bankruptcy.
  • 1996 :
    • the ship of research of the French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the Calypso , runs in a shipyard of Singapore. It will be reinflated a few days later.
    • the assessment of one of the worst snowstorms of the century in the East of the American continent gives a report on at least 86 dead in the East of the the United States. Accumulation on the ground often reached a meter, and the winds left snowdrifts going up to seven meters.
    • a cargo aircraft of the type Antonov -32 is crushed on a crammed market of the downtown area of Kinshasa, capital of the Zaire, causing the death of some 350 people. The majority of the victims are women and children.
  • 1997 : Gerry Deck houses, 43 years old, disappears in the Southern Pacific during the race Vendée Globe. One will never find trace of the Québécois sailor nor of his sailing ship.
  • 1998 :

21e century

Births

Death

1919: Theodore Roosevelt, president of the states-unien (see January 6th)-->

Celebrations

First names

Lucien, Peggy, Severine

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Lucien of Beauvais
  • Severin de Norique

See too

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