Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2021 with 357 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, 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 (age 98); newsman Charles Osgood in 1933 (age 88); Elvis Presley, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "undisputed king," in 1935; singer Shirley Bassey in 1937 (age 84); game show host Bob Eubanks in 1938 (age 83); British comedian Graham Chapman in 1941; actor Yvette Mimieux in 1942 (age 79); British physicist/author Stephen Hawking 1942; author Terry Brooks in 1944 (age 77); radio talk show host Kojo Nnamdi in 1945 (age 76); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Robby Krieger in 1946 (age 75); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member David Bowie in 1947; guitarist/singer Terry Sylvester in 1947 (age 74); singer R. Kelly, born as Robert Sylvester Kelly, in 1967 (age 54); singer Jenny Lewis in 1976 (age 45); actor Windell Middlebrooks in 1979; actor Sam Riley in 1980 (age 41); actor Genevieve Padalecki in 1981 (age 40); actor Gaby Hoffmann in 1982 (age 39); North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 1984 (age 37); actor Freddie Stroma in 1987 (age 34); actor Khylin Rhambo in 1996 (age 25); singer Noah Cyrus in 2000 (age 21).
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,
A thought for the day: "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." -- German-American physicist Albert Einstein
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