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Elvis Presley. / 35.04611°N 90.02306°W / 35.04611; -90.02306. Elvis Aaron Presley[ a] (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the " King of Rock and Roll ", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
1815 – American forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans, two weeks after the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the War of 1812 . 1920 – The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I ...
2003 - Death of Alan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911) 2004 - Death of Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921) 2007 - Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years. January 13: 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.
Noah Cyrus, American singer and actress, turns 24. Paul Hester (January 8, 1959 –March 26, 2005), Brit drummer with Crowded House, would have turned 65 this year. Tomasz Szukalski (January 8, 1948 –August 02, 2012), Polish tenor saxophonist, would have turned 76 this year. David Bowie (January 8, 1947–January 10, 2016), (born David Jones ...
January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 341 days remain until the end of the year (342 in leap years ).
January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami. [4] 1601–1900
January 8: Eugenio María de Hostos's birthday in Puerto Rico (2024) Blackstone Library. 1697 – Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy. 1904 – Blackstone Library (pictured), the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.