8 January
Notable Births
Zach Charbonnet
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
Noah Cyrus
b. 2000
American singer and actress (born 2000)
Ignas Brazdeikis
b. 1999
Lithuanian-Canadian basketball player (born 1999)
Damiano David
b. 1999
Italian singer (born 1999)
Tony Bradley (basketball)
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Ryan Destiny
b. 1995
American actress, singer and songwriter
Glenn Robinson III
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
William Karlsson
b. 1993
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1993)
Sophie Pascoe
b. 1993
New Zealand Paralympic swimmer
Stefanie Dolson
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Koke (footballer, born 1992)
b. 1992
Spanish footballer
Valkyrae
b. 1992
American online streamer and YouTuber (born 1992)
Josh Hazlewood
b. 1991
Australian cricketer (born 1991)
Stefan Johansen
b. 1991
Norwegian footballer (born 1991)
Stefan Savić
b. 1991
Montenegrin footballer (born 1991)
Greg Smith (basketball, born 1991)
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Blair Walsh
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Aaron Cruden
b. 1989
New Zealand rugby union player (born 1989)
Adrián López
b. 1988
Spanish footballer (born 1988)
Michael Mancienne
b. 1988
Seychellois footballer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Adan Canto
d. 2024
Mexican actor (1981–2024)
Michael Lang (producer)
d. 2022
American concert promoter and record producer (1944–2022)
Buck Henry
d. 2020
American actor (1930–2020)
Nicolai Gedda
d. 2017
Swedish operatic tenor (1925–2017)
James Mancham
d. 2017
President of Seychelles
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
d. 2017
President of Iran from 1989 to 1997
Peter Sarstedt
d. 2017
British singer-songwriter (1941–2017)
Maria Teresa de Filippis
d. 2016
Italian racing driver (1926–2016)
German Moreno
d. 2016
Filipino television host, actor, comedian, and talent manager (1933–2016)
Andraé Crouch
d. 2015
American gospel singer, songwriter, and choir leader (1942–2015)
Kep Enderby
d. 2015
Australian politician (1926–2015)
Patsy Garrett
d. 2015
American actress and singer (1921–2015)
Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher
d. 2014
Dutch swimmer (1925–2014)
Antonino Roman
d. 2014
Filipino politician (1939–2014)
Kenojuak Ashevak
d. 2013
Inuk artist (1927–2013)
Dave Alexander (blues musician)
d. 2012
American Texas blues singer and pianist (1938–2012)
T. J. Hamblin
d. 2012
British academic (1943–2012)
Alexis Weissenberg
d. 2012
Bulgarian-born French pianist
Jiří Dienstbier
d. 2011
Czech politician and journalist
Thorbjørn Svenssen
d. 2011
Norwegian footballer (1924–2011)
On This Day in History
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2023
Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress.
Jair Bolsonaro
2021
Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.
La Vega raid
2020
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
2016
Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
El Chapo
2016
West Air Sweden Flight 294 crashes near the Swedish reservoir of Akkajaure; both pilots, the only people on board, are killed.
West Air Sweden Flight 294
2011
Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge.
Gabby Giffords
2010
Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.
Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda
2009
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
2009 Cinchona earthquake
2005
The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
USS San Francisco (SSN-711)
2004
The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Mary 2
2003
Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
Turkish Airlines Flight 634
2003
Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
Air Midwest Flight 5481
2002
President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
George W. Bush
1996
An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
Antonov An-32
1994
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
Astronaut
1989
Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
Kegworth air disaster
1982
Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
Breakup of the Bell System
1981
A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
Trans-en-Provence case
1977
Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
1977 Moscow bombings
1975
Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
Ella Grasso