WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. JANUARY
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President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. (8. January 1918)

The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union. (8. January 1920)

World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. (8. January 1940)

World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces. (8. January 1945)

Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. (8. January 1956)

In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria. (8. January 1961)

The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands. (8. January 1962)

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (8. January 1963)

President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States. (8. January 1964)

Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. (8. January 1971)

Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. (8. January 1973)

Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. (8. January 1973)

Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. (8. January 1975)

Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. (8. January 1977)

The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland. (8. January 1979)

A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". (8. January 1981)

The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. (8. January 1982)

Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board. (8. January 1989)

Beginning of Japanese Heisei period. (8. January 1989)

Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. (8. January 1994)