Today is Monday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2024 with 358 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include publisher Frank Doubleday in 1862; actor William Hartnell in 1908; comic actor Larry Storch in 1923; newsman Charles Osgood in 1933 (age 91); Elvis Presley, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "undisputed king," in 1935; singer Shirley Bassey in 1937 (age 87); game show host Bob Eubanks in 1938 (age 86); British comedian Graham Chapman in 1941; actor Yvette Mimieux in 1942; British physicist/author Stephen Hawking 1942; author Terry Brooks in 1944 (age 80); radio talk show host Kojo Nnamdi in 1945 (age 79); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Robby Krieger in 1946 (age 78); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member David Bowie in 1947; guitarist/singer Terry Sylvester in 1947 (age 77); actor Ron Cephas Jones in 1957; singer R. Kelly, born as Robert Sylvester Kelly, in 1967 (age 57); singer Jenny Lewis in 1976 (age 48); actor Windell Middlebrooks in 1979; actor Sam Riley in 1980 (age 44); actor Genevieve Padalecki in 1981 (age 43); actor Gaby Hoffmann in 1982 (age 42); North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 1984 (age 40); actor Freddie Stroma in 1987 (age 37); actor Cynthia Erivo in 1987 (age 37); actor Khylin Rhambo in 1996 (age 28); rocker Damiano David in 1999 (age 25); singer Noah Cyrus in 2000 (age 24).
On this date in history:
In 1790,
In 1815, the forces of
In 1867, the
In 1889, US patent #395,791 is issued to Herman Hollerith for his "Art of Compiling Statistics," a punched card calculator. In 1896, Hollerith founded
In 1918,
In 1961, Algerians voted in favor of the French referendum on Algerian self-determination, part of French President
In 1964, President
In 1978,
In 1987,
In 1989, a
In 1991,
In 1992, President
In 1993, thousands of people gathered at
In 1997, a report by
In 2002,
In 2007, Venezuelan President
In 2011, six people were killed and 13 others, including
In 2016, Mexican authorities captured
In 2018, the
In 2020,
In 2021, Twitter permanently suspended President
A thought for the day: American rock musician Elvis Presley said, "I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd."
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