January 8, 2022, is the 8th day of the year, with 357 days remaining.
Some of the notable events of this day in history
1198: Pope Innocent III is elected.
1297: The Grimaldi dynasty of Monaco is founded.
1499: Louis XII of France and Anne of England are married.
1806: The British capture the port of Bonne-Espérance.
1814: Austria and Naples sign an alliance known as the Murat conspiracy, which was intended to plot Napoleon’s downfall.
1889: Herman Hollerith invents a machine that would become the ancestor of the modern computer.
1912: The African National Congress (ANC) party is founded in South Africa, and Nelson Mandela, who is considered a hero throughout the world, later worked in it to fight the apartheid policy in that country.
1914: Radium is used to treat cancer
1923: France occupies the Ruhr area, which later becomes a problem in World War II.
1926: Ibn Saud is crowned king of the Hedjaz kingdom.
1958: At the age of 14, Bobby Fischer wins the chess championship in the United States.
1959: Charles de Gaulle becomes the 5th president of France.
1961: Algeria is declared an independent country in France.
2007: Russia temporarily closes gas pipelines from Poland and Germany through Belarus.
2010: A Togolese football team was shot dead by rebels in Cabinda, killing three and injuring others. The team withdrew from the African Cup of Nations that year.
Some of the greats who saw the sun on this date
1888: Richard Courant, German mathematician
1902: Gueorgui Malenkov, Soviet politician
1904: Karl Brandt, Adolf Hitler’s physician
1952: Hamma Hammami, Tunisian politician
1982: John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
1984: Kim Jong-un, current President of North Korea.
1986: David Silva, Spanish footballer
1988: Jirès Kembo Ekoko, Democratic Republic of Congo footballer
Some of the greats who died on this date
1198: Pope Celestine III
1880: Joshua Norton, self-proclaimed emperor of the United States
1942: Joseph Franklin Rutherford, prominent American Jehovah’s Witness
1976: Zhou Enlai, former Chinese premier
1996: François Mitterrand, President of France
1997: Melvin Calvin, American mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in 1961
2002: Alexandre Mikhaïlovitch Prokhorov, Russian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1964.
Published books
1993: Mexico by James A. Michener
1950: This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt
2000: Journey by Danielle Steel
2001: Deck The Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
1952: The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
