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2008 Calendar

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1908 - William Hartnell, English actor
1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
1931 - Bill Graham, German rock music entrepreneur (died 1991)
1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (1988)
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (died 1977)
1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (died 1989)
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
1947 - David Bowie, English rock artist
1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian celebrity chef
1969 - R. Kelly, American R&B singer
1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer

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1324 - Marco Polo
1642 - Galileo Galilei

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871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.
1198 - Innocent III becomes Pope.
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1815 - War of 1812: In the Battle of New Orleans Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1856 - Borax is discovered (John Veatch).
1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).
1889 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
1894 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1935 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
1953 - René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.
1958 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
1959 - Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC).
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of placing bugs in Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 - Kegworth Air Disaster
1992 - President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister.
1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station till March 22, 1995 for a record 437 days in space.
1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350
1998 - Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka.
1999 - Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
2003 - US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.
2004 - Queen Elizabeth names the Queen Mary II cruise liner, the largest passenger ship ever built.

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