This Day In History

Curious about things that have happened in the past on a particular day? Interested about what happened, today January 8th? Well, here is your answer...




1815: The Battle of New Orleans, the last battle in the War of 1812, was fought.

1918: Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points Peace program.

1958: Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at the age 14. 

1959: Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic. 

1964: President Lyndon Johnson  announced his war on poverty.

1982: The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."  

1998: The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.

2011: Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including United States District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identified the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.