TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JANUARY 8
1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep the duchy for the crown
1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1681 The Treaty of Radzin ends a five year war between the Turks and the allied countries of Russia and Poland.
1790 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address
1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
1815 A rag-tag army under Andrew Jackson defeats the British on the fields of Chalmette in the Battle of New Orleans.
1835 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history
1877 Crazy Horse (Tashunca-uitco) and his warriors fought their final battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
1889 Computer pioneer Herman Hollerith patents his punched card calculator
1908 A subway line opens linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
1918 Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.
1926 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud becomes King of Nejd and Hejaz; forerunner of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1940 Great Britain begins rationing sugar, meat and butter.
1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
1954 President Dwight Eisenhower proposes stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.
1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
1975 Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first female governor in the US who did not come into office by succeeding her husband.
1979 The United States advises the Shah to leave Iran.
1982 The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven “Baby Bells.”
1992 US President George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister’s lap during Japanese tour
1998 The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.
1999 The top two executives of Salt Lake City’s Olympic Organizing Committee resigned amid disclosures that civic boosters had given cash to members of the International Olympic Committee.
2002 US President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act, intended to improve America’s educational system.
2011 An attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is part of a shooting spree in which Jared Lee Loughner kills 6 and wounds 13.
REFERENCES: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeoplehistory.com, timeandate.com, factmonster.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
