Template:On this day/8 Januar

8 Januar:

• 1454 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awairds the Kinrick o Portugal exclusive tred an colonisation richts tae aw o Africae sooth o Cape Bojador.
• 1790 – George Washington deleevers the first State o the Union address in New York Ceety.
• 1828 – The Democratic Pairty o the Unitit States (logo picturt) is organised.
• 1940 – Warld War II: Breetain introduces fuid raitionin.
• 2011 – The attempted assassination o Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords an subsequent shuitin in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in that five fowk war shot deid.

Marco Polo (d. 1324) · Galileo Galilei (d. 1642) · Elvis Presley (b. 1935)