Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: January 8
January 8, 2024 is the 8th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 8
- 871 –Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
- 1734 –Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- 1746 –Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- 1780 –An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
- 1835 –The United States national debt is 0 for the only time.
- 1889 –Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator.
- 1906 –A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- 1975 –Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
- 1989 –Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
- 2011 –An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
Who were born on January 8?
- 1628 –François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
- 1870 –Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
- 1900 –Dame Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
- 1909 –Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
- 1958 –Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
- 1972 –Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer
- 1973 –Mark Knight, English sound designer
- 1980 –Rachel Nichols, American actress
- 1981 –Carmen Schäfer, Swiss curler
- 1986 –Maria Ozawa, Japanese/French-Canadian pornstar
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