8 Januar

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The 8t o Januar is the 8t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 357 days ti come (358 in lowp years).

Events

1297 - Monaco gains unthirldom.
1697 - Thomas Aikenhead becomes the last body in Scotland tae be executit for blasphemy.
1746 - Second Jacobite Uprisin: Charles Edward Stuart occupies Stirlin.
1790 - George Washington delivers his first State o the Union address.
1815 - Withoot kennin that the Peace o Ghent hae been signed, American troops defeat the Breetish at the Battle o New Orleans, endin the War o 1812.
1912 - The African Naitional Congress, current governin pairty o Sooth Africae, is foondit.
1916 - US Preses Woodrow Wilson propales his "Fourteen Points" programme for the aftermath o Warld War I.
1940 - The Unitit Kinrick introduces food rations.
1959 - Charles de Gaulle becomes Preses o Fraunce.
1973 - The Soviet Union launches the Luna 21 probe.
1989 - The Kegworth Air Disaster in Leicestershire kills 47 fowk.
1996 - A plane crash in Kinshasa, in then-Zaire, kills 327 fowk.
2010 - Togo's naitional fitbaa team is attackit in Cabinda, Angolae.
2011 - Six fowk are kilt in a shuitin in Tucson, Arizona. Congress member Gabrielle Giffords is severely injured.
2020 - Ukraine Internaitional Airlines Flicht 752 is shot doon in error shortly efter tak-aff frae Tehran, Iran, at a time o escalatin tensions in the region; 176 fowk are kilt.