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January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands) Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in January. Typing Day (International observance)
On this day/Today. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon. 1890 – The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage. 1928 – The iron lung (example ...
United States/On this day/January 8. < Portal:United States | On this day. edit. On this day for the United States. January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December. January 8:
The Missouri Centennial half dollar is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1921. It was designed by Robert Ingersoll Aitken.The U.S. state of Missouri wanted a commemorative coin to mark its centennial that year.
Today's featured picture Portrait of Margaret van Eyck is a 1439 oil-on-wood painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck . A portrait of his wife Margaret, it is one of the two latest of van Eyck's surviving paintings, and one of the earliest European artworks to depict a painter's spouse.
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 . 1920 – The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I ...
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January.Most solar calendars (like the Gregorian and Julian) begin the year regularly at or near the northern winter solstice, while cultures and religions that observe a lunisolar or lunar calendar celebrate their Lunar New Year at less fixed points relative to the solar year.
On this day. January 8. Covent Garden Theatre. 1697 – Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy. 1735 – George Frideric Handel 's opera Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre (pictured) in London.