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
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
- 1770 : Jerónimo Jose Candido, Spanish Matador († April 1st 1839)
- 1822: Carlo Alfredo Piatti, violoncellist and Italian type-setter († Mozzo, July 18th, 1901)
- 1823: Alfred Russel Wallace, British Naturalist († 1913)
- 1829: Heinrich Eduard Schroeter, German mathematician († 1892)
- 1852: Giovanni Frattini, mathematician Italy N († 1925)
- 1862: Joseph Déchelette, archeologist French († 1914), precursor of the ancient ceramology
- 1888: Richard Running, German mathematician († 1972)
- 1891: Bronislava Nijinska, dancer and Russian choreographer († 1972)
- 1892: Paul Valiant-Dressmaker, journalist French († 1937)
- 1900: Serge Poliakoff, painter French († 1969)
- 1902: Gueorgui Malenkov, Soviet politician († January 14th 1988) (with the calendar Julien is the January 13rd with the Gregorian calendar)
- 1905: Giacinto Scelsi, type-setter Italy N († 1988)
- 1909: Jose To shoe, actor and director Oporto-yankee originating in the the United States († 1992)
- 1912: Susumu Fujita, actor Japan board († 1991)
- 1919: Louis-Lucien Boislaville, type-setter French († 2001)
- 1924: Paul Moritz Cohn, German mathematician
- 1925: James Saunders, British author of theater († 2004)
- 1926
- 1928: Gaston Miron, poet and editor Québécois. († December 14th 1996)
- 1930: Jack Lantier, singer French
- 1932: Livia Gyarmathy, Hungarian director
- 1933: Juan Marsé, Spanish writer
- 1934
- 1935: Elvis Presley, American singer of Rock' roll († August 16th 1977)
- 1937
- 1938: Simone Schwarz-Bart, writer French
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943: Dany, Belgian draftsman
- 1946: Robert Alan Krieger, British singer
- 1947: David Bowie, British singer
- 1951: John McTiernan, American realizer
- 1952: Hamma Hammami, politician Tunisia N
- 1962: Sacha Bourdo, French actor.
- 1965 : Pascal Obispo, singer French
- 1967
- 1971: Geraldine Pailhas, French actress
- 1973: Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
- 1976: Raffaëla Anderson, French actress
- 1977: Didier Dinart, handballer French
- 1979
- Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
- Feather-grass Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
- 1982: John Utaka, footballer Nigeria N
- 1988: Jirès Kembo Ekoko, footballer Congolese
Death
1919:
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the states-unien (see January 6th)-->
- 1934: Andrei Biély, Russian writer (° October 26th 1880)
- 1941: Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting (° February 22nd 1857)
- 1942: Franklin Joseph Rutherford, religious leader states-unien (° November 8th 1869)
- 1948: Kurt Schwitters, German painter (° June 20th 1887)
- 1950: Joseph Schumpeter, theorist and economist austro - states-unien (° February 8th 1883)
- 1963: Wise Kay ( Wise Katherine Flax ), surrealist artist states-unienne (° June 25th 1898)
- 1968: Charles Loewner, mathematician bohémo-Czech
- 1970: Georgius, French chansonnier (° June 3rd 1891)
- 1971: Rene Simon, professor of dramatic art French (° 1898)
- 1972: Kenneth Patchen, painter and poet states-unien (° December 13rd 1911)
- 1975: Richard Tucker, tenor states-unien (° August 28th 1913)
- 1976: Pierre-Jean Jouve, poet and novelist French (° 1887)
- 1976: Zhou Enlai, chief of the government Chinese of 1949 with its death
- 1978: Andre François-Poncet, diplomat French (° June 13rd 1887)
- 1980 - John Mauchly, physicist and pioneer of data processing states-unien (° August 30th 1907)
- 1986: Pierre Baker, French violoncellist (° June 24th 1906)
- 1989: Bruce Chatwin, British novelist (° May 13rd 1940)
- 1990: Terry Thomas, British actor (° July 14th 1911)
- 1995: Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (° August 7th 1942)
- 1995: Louis Gasté known as “Spitz Gasté”, type-setter French. (° March 18th 1908)
- 1996: François Mitterrand, president of the French Republic (° October 26th 1916)
- 1997: Melvin Calvin, chemist states-unien, Nobel Prize of chemistry 1961 (° April 8th 1911)
- 1998: Michael Tippett, British type-setter (° January 2nd 1905)
- 1998: Walter E. Diemer, 93 years, the inventor of the first bubble-gum .
- 2002 : Alexander Prochorow, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize of physics 1964 (° July 11th 1916)
- 2003: Ron Goodwin, British type-setter (° February 17th 1925)
- 2005: Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (° February 3rd 1914)
Celebrations
First names
Lucien, Peggy, Severine
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
- Lucien of Beauvais
- Severin de Norique
See too
Beats-smg: Sausė 8
Be-X-old: 8 студзеня
Fiu-vro: 8. vahtsõaastakuu päiv
Nds-nl: 8 jannewaori
Simple: January 8
Zh-min-nan: 1 goe̍h 8 ji̍t
Zh-yue: 1 月 8 號