It happened on this day, January 8
Events:
1297 – Monaco gains independence from Genoa.
1790 – George Washington delivers his first annual speech from New York.
1838 – The first telegraph message is sent via points and lines in New Jersey, United States.
1863 – The “Battle of Springfield” takes place during the American Civil War.
1892 – Abbas Hilmi II takes power over Egypt, succeeding his father, Khedive Tawfiq, who died the day before.
1900 – U.S. President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1912 – Foundation of the African National Congress, a political organization founded in South Africa.
1918 – American President Woodrow Wilson establishes his Fourteen Principles, and these principles are a result of World War I.
1926 – Abdulaziz Al Saud is named Sultan of Najd and King of Hijaz.
1936 – An order to uncover the hijab is issued in Iran by Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.
1948 – Arrival of the first group of Arab Salvation Army volunteers in Palestine, composed of 330 fighters. It was repulsed by the British occupying forces.
1958 – Cuban revolutionary forces take control of the capital, Havana.
1959 – General Charles de Gaulle assumes the presidency of France.
1961 – A referendum is held in France and Algeria on the right to self-determination in Algeria.
1963 – The Mona Lisa is exhibited at the United States National Gallery of Art, courtesy of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
1973 – Launch of the Soviet Luna 21 space mission.
1978 – The Israeli government votes to consolidate settlements in the occupied Sinai Peninsula.
1980 – Indira Gandhi wins the presidency of the Indian government.
1983: 4 earthquakes occur in the Saada governorate of Yemen, resulting in the destruction of a number of houses.
1986 – A Knesset delegation storms the Al-Aqsa Mosque. These attempts continue for a week.
✴️ US President Ronald Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the United States.
1988 – 28 people are killed in fighting between the army and communist revolutionaries in the Philippines.
1989 – A Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, killing 46 people.
1993 – Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Toralic is assassinated in front of French soldiers belonging to international peacekeeping forces stationed near Sarajevo, after being kidnapped inside a United Nations vehicle.
1998 – Ramzi Youssef is sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in organizing the bombing of the World Trade Center building in New York state.
2006 – A strong earthquake hits southern Greece with a magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter scale.
2009 – The UN Security Council adopts Resolution No. 1860 calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, followed by a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces, in order to end the Israeli war in the band.
2011 – Chile decides to officially recognize the Palestinian state at the 1967 borders, and it is the sixth country in South America to decide to recognize it.
✴️ The Egyptian Military Council decides to repeal article five of the electoral law, which stipulates that two-thirds of Parliament are elected through the electoral list system, while the other third is occupied by independent elected officials.
2015 – Marthibala Sirisena is elected president of Sri Lanka.
2016 – Mexican marines arrest major drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera, six months after his escape from prison.
2017 – 5 Israeli soldiers were killed and 15 others injured in an attack carried out by a young Palestinian named Fadi al-Qanbar in a truck in the Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood, south of Jerusalem.
✴️ La La Land sets the record for film with the most Golden Globes by winning all seven nominations at the 74th Golden Globe Awards.
2018 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird were selected as Best Motion Picture, Drama and Comedy respectively at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
2020 – Iran's Revolutionary Guards carry out pre-dawn missile strikes against two military bases housing US forces in Iraq.
✴️ Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 passengers on board.
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Births:
1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist.
1830 – Hans von Bülow, German musician.
1836 – Laurens Tadema, Dutch painter.
1866 – William Gustavus Conley, American politician.
1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and trade unionist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
1885 – John Curtin, Australian politician.
1891 – Walter Bothe, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.
1902 – Grigori Malenkov, Russian politician. Carl Rogers, American psychologist.
1926 – Giannis Christou, Greek composer.
1928 – Sheherazade, Egyptian singer.
1933 – Maryam Fakhr El-Din, Egyptian actress.
1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist.
1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer.
** Farid Habib, Lebanese politician.
1936 – Ellen Anderson, American paleontologist.
** Abdul Hussein Al-Salhi, Iranian-Iraqi religious historian.
1938 – Anthony Giddens, contemporary English sociologist.
** Laila Fahmy, Egyptian actress.
1942 – Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan.
** Stephen Hawking, English physicist.
1944 – Terry Brooks, American fantasy writer.
1947 – Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician.
** David Bowie, British actor and rock singer.
1951 – John McTiernan, American director and producer.
1955 – Spyros Levathinos, Greek footballer.
1963 – Samira Ahmed, Emirati actress.
1967 – R. Kelly, American singer.
1971 – Intisar, Egyptian actress.
** Pascal Zuberbuhler, Swiss football goalkeeper.
1972 – Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer.
1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican musician.
1978 – Sol Ki-hyun, South Korean footballer.
1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer.
** Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer.
**Sarah Bailey, Canadian actress.
1982 – Emanuele Calaio, Italian footballer.
** John Otaka, Nigerian footballer.
1983 – Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea.
** Chris Masters, American wrestler.
1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer.
1988 – Michael Mancien, English footballer.
** Adrian Lopez Alvarez, Spanish footballer.
1996 – Laila Abdullah, Lebanese actress living in Kuwait.
2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress.
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Death:
1324 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer.
1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, philosopher and physicist.
1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian musician.
1896 – Paul Verlan, French poet.
1915 – Eugène Gripault, French Egyptologist.
1930 – Hamad Abdullah Al-Saqr, Kuwaiti merchant and head of the first Shura Council in Kuwait.
1949 – Youssef Abdel Khaleq, Lebanese calligrapher, poet and advisor.
1958 – Khalil Azmi Al-Ani, Iraqi writer, poet, journalist and politician.
1992 – Musa Sabry, Egyptian author, writer and journalist.
1994 – Mitri Noman, Lebanese playwright, poet, editor and translator.
1996 – François Mitterrand, president of France.
1997 – Melvin Calvin, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961.
2002 – Alexandre Prokhrov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.
** Mahmoud Shukri, one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
** Arthur Clokey, American animator.
2012 – Qasim Jadayen, Moroccan journalist.
2016 – Hamdy Ahmed, Egyptian actor. Nadra Al-Yaziji, Syrian researcher and philosopher.
2017 – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Iranian president.
2022 – Sinan Al-Shabibi, Iraqi economist.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Commonwealth Day in the Northern Mariana Islands.
