Exploring the fascinating events of January 8 in History

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In this video, we're exploring the fascinating events of January 8 in history. From the first human flight to President Donald Trump's inauguration, this is a day full of history and excitement!

Whether you're a history buff or you just want to learn more about the latest news, this video is for you! We'll take a look at some of the most interesting January 8 in history events, and why they're so important. Thanks for watching!

1610 German astronomer Simon Marius independently discovers the first three moons of Jupiter one day after Galileo
1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper, "Weeckelycke Courante van Europa (Haarlems Dagblad)", still in printed circulation begins publication in Haarlem, Netherlands
1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1790 First US President George Washington delivers the first state of the union address
1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
1811 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast
1815 Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812); the war had ended on 24th December 1814 but none of the combatants knew
1816 Sophie Germain is the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity
1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established

1835 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history
1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington
1867 African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Andrew Johnson's veto
1877 Crazy Horse and his Sioux warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
1902 New York state assemblyman Francis G. Landon gets a bill passed to criminalize men turning around on a street and "looking at a woman in that way”
1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing the prohibition of alcohol
1918 US President Woodrow Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points for peace after the Great War
1925 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on Poverty”
1965 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the American natonal flower (it does not pass)
1979 Today Show gets a new theme song
1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
1982 US Justice Department withdraws anti-trust suit against IBM, pending since 1969
1984 NFC Championship, RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.: Washington Redskins beat San Francisco 49ers, 24-21
1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1992 George H. W. Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
2002 US President George W. Bush signs into law the "No Child Left Behind Act", providing financial assistance to schools exhibiting academic improvement
2008 Joe Gibbs retires, for the second time, as head coach of the Washington Redskins
2008 New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
2011 Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords
2014 First known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth - CNEOS 2014-01-08 crash lands in Papua New Guinea
2016 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the recapture of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, six months after he escaped prison
2020 Singer Justin Bieber reveals he has Lyme disease, an infectious disease spread by ticks
2021 Twitter bans US President Donald Trump permanently "due to the risk of further incitement of violence”
2021 US Speaker Nancy Pelosi demands President Donald Trump's resignation or he will face a second impeachment, while also calling for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him in the wake of the January 6 attack of the Capitol