Wednesday January 8, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the nd week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1297
François Grimaldi, disguised as monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
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.
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”.
An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake’s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.

Who were born on ?

Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
Elvis Presley, American singer (d. 1977)
Charles Murray, American author and pundit
Keith Arkell, English chess Grandmaster
Mirella van Melis, Dutch track and road cyclist
Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress

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