Historical Events In January - 08
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison on January - 08.
1975 Anthony Warde, actor (Big Punch, Buck Rogers), dies at 66 on January - 08.
1976 Franklin Mint strikes first gold coins for Netherlands Antilles on January - 08.
1976 On January - 08 chou En-lai, China's PM (1949-76), dies of cancer in Beijing at 78
1978 On this day in history israel's Cabinet votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up on January - 08.
1979 Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord on January - 08.
1979 On this day in history today Show gets a new theme song
1979 On this day in history vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh
1981 India all out 63 in one-day international vs Australia on January - 08.
1982 On this day in history american Telephone & Telegraph agrees to be broken up in settlement of an anti-trust suit filed in 1974.
1982 On this day in history aT&T agrees to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies
1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since 1969 on January - 08.
1982 Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate at 987,000 or 8.6% of the work force; highest since figures first taken in 1946 on this day in history.
1985 On January - 08 japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
1986 President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US on January - 08.
1987 On January - 08 the Dow Jones industrial average closes at over 2000 points for the first time.
1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points on this day in history.
1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator on January - 08.
1988 On this day in history uS female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die on January - 08.
1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons on January - 08.
1990 On January - 08 canada formally joins the Organization of American States (OAS) as its 33rd member.
1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame on this day in history.
1992 On this day in history uS President George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour
1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale on January - 08.
1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman on this day in history.
1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1 51.60) on January - 08.
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit on January - 08.
1994 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis on January - 08.
1995 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 1143 performances on January - 08.
1996 On January - 08 blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
1996 On January - 08 fisheries Minister Brian Tobin announces he is quitting federal politics to run for the job of provincial Liberal leader and Premier of Newfoundland, only to return and get a plum government posting
1996 On this day in history for first time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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