This was 8th day of the year and 357 days remained in the year.
January 8 in History
1815
The Battle of New Orleans, the last battle in the War of 1812, was fought.
1918
Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.
1958
Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.
1959
Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.
1964
President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.
1982
The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."
1998
The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.
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