01-07-2014, 07:38 PM
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January 8th
1642 ~ Death of Galileo Galilei, Astronomer.
1918 ~ President Wilson announced his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gerald Durrell, Naturalist & Writer.
1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist.
1958 ~ Bobby Fischer won the U.S. Chess Championship.
1981 ~ The Trans-en-Provence UFO case.
1983 ~ Birthday of Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
1994 ~ Valeri Polyakov began his record setting 437 days in space.
1996 ~ Death of Francois Mitterrand, French president.
2002 ~ President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law.
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