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Question: Why is January 8th a special day to millions of people?
Answers: Why is January 8th a special day to millions of people?
its elvis presleys birthday! =] durr
State of the Union??
it's their birthday including yours?
Because its their birthday
its lots of peoples birthdays???
its the day after the 7th
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Islamic new year?
It's the day you get paroled.
I think that it is important for some people because in the Northern Mariana Islands, January 8th is Commonwealth Day or maybe because it is their birthday or because it is Elvis Presley's birthday or it could be some other significant event in their lives........
it's Elvis Presley's birthday.
Its my Dad's, and two of my friends birthdays, and Elvis presely's .....Is it your birthday?
Its when you take your Christmas decorations down! idk =)
It is the day that Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points after World War I
I think it is because Jan 8th is Christmas day in some communities.
Because you are 21 again...
January 8th 1297...Monaco gained its independence. The millions of people there probably celebrate this.
it is elvis birthday..
born 1935
Elvis...
and Roy Kinnear
and Shirley Bassey
and David Bowie!
January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
bcoz ur goin back to school that day!...right??
Elvis Presley's Birthday.. YAAAAHOOO!!
UnionLeader.com has learned that Secretary of State Bill Gardner has selected Jan. 8, 2008, for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
133 million people will be born this year, so if you divide that by 365 days you get 364,000.
So you have 364,000 special days.
But 18,200,000 actual birthdays an average!
so over 18 million special days of the living.
and of the dead
well thats only Elvis to many people
I know Spanish people celebrate the festive season then
871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.
1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.
1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1835 - US national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
1912 - The African National Congress was founded.
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farsky.
1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba.
1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).
1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).
1979 - The NBC game show Password Plus premieres, hosted by Allen Ludden.
1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Leicestershire, England.
1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
2000 - Winning Lines, a worldiwde national lottery game show, premieres on CBS and is hosted by Dick Clark.
2002 - United States President George W. Bush signs into law the controversial No Child Left Behind Act.
2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Elvis's birthday?
on january 8th
[edit] Events
871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.
1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.
1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1835 - US national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
1912 - The African National Congress was founded.
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farsky.
1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba.
1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).
1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).
1979 - The NBC game show Password Plus premieres, hosted by Allen Ludden.
1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Leicestershire, England.
1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
2000 - Winning Lines, a worldiwde national lottery game show, premieres on CBS and is hosted by Dick Clark.
2002 - United States President George W. Bush signs into law the controversial No Child Left Behind Act.
2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
[edit] Births
1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1628 - Fran?ois Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
1786 - Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
1860 - Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1885 - John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)
1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch activist and pacifist (d. 1967)
1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
1902 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
1904 - Karl Brandt, Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
1909 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)
1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist
1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German anti-Hitler activist (d. 1942)
1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer
1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
1947 - David Bowie, English musician
1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
1951 - John McTiernan, American film director
1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician (Loverboy)
1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler
1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
1962 - Chris Marion, American musician (Little River Band)
1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel)
1970 - Melissa Hill, American porn actress
1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player
1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)
1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor
1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American professional wrestler
1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
1988 - Adam T. Siska, American Musician, (The Academy Is...)
1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer
1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer
1995 - Hannah Robinson, American actress
2000 - Noah Cyrus, American actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus
[edit] Deaths
482 - Saint Severinus of Noricum
1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
1794 - Justus M?ser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)
1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley
1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
1996 - Fran?ois Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
is one of those right?
Isn't it the old New Year's Day in some countries?
Since millions of people are Christians, I would say that January 8th is the feast day of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, and that's why it's special.
Chinese new year.