What happend on 8th January

07.01
09.01
2005

The trans-Neptunian object 2003 UB313 is discovered.

2004

Queen Elizabeth names the Queen Mary II cruise liner, the largest passenger ship ever built.

2003

US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people aboard.

2000

The Music City Miracle (a play during the NFL playoffs).

1999

Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.

1998

Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka.

1997

computer processer Pentium MMX introduced by Intel.

1997

"Mister Rogers" receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1996

An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350.

1994

Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station till March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.