{"id":23384,"date":"2021-01-08T04:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23384"},"modified":"2021-01-07T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:08:49","slug":"history-of-8-january-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-8-january-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 8 January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> 1992 &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. Bush\u00a0collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo. White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu.<\/li><li>1993 &#8211; Bosnian President Izetbegovic visited the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0to plead his government&#8217;s case for Western military aid and intervention to halt Serbian aggression.<\/li><li>1994 &#8211; Tonya Harding won the ladies&#8217; U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit,\u00a0MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her right knee. The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Figure Skating Association later took the title from Harding because of her involvement in the attack.<\/li><li>1997 &#8211; Mister Rogers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; Ramzi Yousef was sentenced to life in prison for his role of mastermind behind the World Trade Center bombing in New York.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; Scientists announced that they had discovered that galaxies were accelerating and moving apart and at faster speeds.<\/li><li>1999 &#8211; The top two executives of Salt Lake City&#8217;s Olympic Organizing Committee resigned amid disclosures that civic boosters had given cash to members of the International Olympic Committee.<\/li><li>1999 &#8211; British Prime Minister Tony Blair concluded a three-day visit to South Africa.<\/li><li>2005 &#8211; The rate for U.S. First Class mail was raised to 39\u00a2.<\/li><li>2009 &#8211; In Egypt, archeologists entered a 4,300 year old pyramid and discovered the mummy of Queen Sesheshet. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2011 \u2013 Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but 6 others died, including John Roll, a federal judge.<\/li><li>2016 \u2013 Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n, widely regarded as the world&#8217;s most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/January_8#cite_note-47\"><\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>2020 \u2013 Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating Birthday Today <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981 \u2013 Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gaby Hoffmann, American actress<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd\u00a0Supreme Leader of North Korea (probable)<\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Adri\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, Spanish footballer<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Michael Mancienne, English footballer<\/li><li>1988 \u2013 Alex Tyus, American-Israeli basketball player<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/January_8#cite_note-181\"><\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player<\/li><li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer<\/li><li>1991 \u2013 Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer<\/li><li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Stefan Savi\u0107, Montenegrin footballer<\/li><li>1992 \u2013 Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player<\/li><li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Koke, Spanish footballer<\/li><li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sophie Pascoe, New Zealand swimmer<\/li><li>2000 \u2013 Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, and actress<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1992 &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. 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