Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 8

This is a list of selected January 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Images

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  Pope Innocent III
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  Andrew Jackson
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  The reconstructed frame of Nate Saint's plane used in Operation Auca
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  RMS Queen Mary 2
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  RMS Queen Mary 2
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  Blackstone Library, Chicago
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  Battle of New Orleans
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  Herman Hollerith

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1297 – Francesco Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.	outdated
1806 – British forces engaged the Batavian Republic at Battle of Blaauwberg, eventually establishing British rule in the Cape Colony.	Battle: needs more footnotes; Colony: refimprove
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post-World War I peace in Europe.	refimprove section
1989 – British Midland Flight 92 crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, Leicestershire, UK, killing 47 people and injuring 79 others.	{{refimprove}}

Eligible

• 1697 – Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in Britain to be executed for blasphemy.
• 1790 – George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
• 1811 – The German Coast Uprising, the largest slave revolt in United States history, took place in Louisiana.
• 1889 – Statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine, the precursor to modern computers.
• 1904 – Blackstone Library, the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.
• 1920 – The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I, collapsed in complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
• 1964 – During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty".
• 1977 – Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37.
• 1978 - Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man elected into public office in the United States.
• 1981 – A local farmer reported a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
• 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashed in extensive fog during final approach to Diyarbakır Airport in Turkey, leaving only five survivors out of 80 people on board.
• 2004 – RMS Queen Mary 2, at the time the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
• 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
• 2011 – In Tucson, Arizona, US, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire on an outdoor public meeting, killing six people and injuring twelve others.

Notes

• Mantell UFO incident appears on January 7, so Trans-en-Provence Case should not appear in the same year
• RMS Queen Elizabeth appears on January 9, so RMS Queen Mary 2 should not appear in the same year

January 8

Betelgeuse explosion memorial

• 1198 – Lotario de Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
• 1815 – American forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans, two weeks after the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the War of 1812.
• 1956 – Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
• 1979 – The oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal off Bantry Bay, Ireland, killing approximately 50 people (memorial pictured).
• 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashed into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 237 on the ground.

More anniversaries:

• January 7
• January 8
• January 9