What happend on 8th January

07.01
09.01
1992

President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit to Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa.

1989

Kegworth Air Disaster

1989

beginning of Japanese Heisei era

1987

The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 8.30 to close at 2,002.25 -- The Dow's first close above 2,000.

1986

Hacker Manifesto written.

1982

AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

1977

Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

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.

1973

Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of placing bugs in Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1966

Operation Crimp of the Vietnam War.