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A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on January 8, 1955
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1955_lunar_eclipse

Total Eclipse of the Moon 1936 January 08
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1936PA.....44...27W



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1780 North Tabriz earthquake
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47164968/north-tabriz-fault/



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The Battle of Wolf Mountain occurred January 8, 1877
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wolf_Mountain

On 8 January 1746 (OS) 19 January 1746 (NS), the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie seized control of Stirling
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47164950/jacobite-rising-of-1745/

The oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded in West Cork, Ireland on 8 January 1979
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiddy_Island_Disaster



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The Soyuz TM-18 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on January 8, 1994 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52174131/soyuz-tm-18/

Luna 21/Lunokhod 2 was launched on 8 January 1973
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_21
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t40370466/luna-21/



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Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov (January 8, 1942) was a USSR cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Zudov

Stephen Hawking (8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47164927/alfred-russel-wallace-1823-1913/

Johann(es) Fabricius (8 January 1587 - 19 March 1616) was a Frisian/German astronomer
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t41610281/johannes-fabricius/

John Anthony Carroll (8 January 1899 - 2 May 1974) was a British astronomer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_(astronomer)

Frank John Kerr (8 January 1918 - 15 September 2000) was an Australian astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_John_Kerr

Edward R. "Ted" Harrison (8 January 1919 - 29 January 2007) was a British astronomer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Robert_Harrison

Sir Frank Watson Dyson (8 January 1868 - 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47164908/frank-watson-dyson-1868-1939/

Prof. Rod Davies (8 January 1930 - November 2015) was emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Davies

Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (8 January 1891 - 8 February 1957) was a German nuclear physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Bothe

Roy Batty model number N6MAA10816 (activated 8 January 2016 - November 2019) was a renegade Nexus-6 replicant
http://bladerunner.wikia.com/wiki/Roy_Batty

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016) was an English singer, songwriter and actor. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie



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Herman Hollerith was awarded a series of patents in 1889 for mechanical tabulating machines. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52174305/punch-cards/

The earliest intrinsically-dated document ever found in the UK, was written on 8 January AD 57. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36415563



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NGC 1707 was discovered by John Herschel on the 8th January 1828.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56184643/ngc-1707/

NGC 1726 was discovered by John Herschel on the 8th January 1831.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56184662/ngc-1726/

NGC 1927 was discovered by John Herschel on the 8th January 1831.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56184694/ngc-1927/

NGC 2279 was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on the 8th January 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56184713/ngc-2279/

NGC 2364 was discovered by John Herschel on the 8th January 1831.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56184744/ngc-2364/



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Europa was discovered on 8 January 1610 by Galileo Galilei, and possibly independently by Simon Marius.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)#Discovery_and_naming

The 1981 Trans-en-Provence Case is one of the rare cases where a UFO is said to have left physical evidence 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t40370484/trans-en-provence-case/

The Great Comet of 1760 (C/1760 A1) approached within 0.0682 AU from Earth on the 8th January 1760.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56164533/the-great-comet-of-1760/

The Rho Geminids are at maximum on January 8
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56182966/rho-geminids/



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Meteorites

The Beni M'hira meteorite fell on January 8, 2001 in southeastern Tunisia. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56182760/beni-mhira-meteorite/

The Okniny (LL6) meteorite fell in Volyn, Ukraine, on the 8th January, 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47164984/okniny-meteorite/

The Soheria (OC) meteorite fell in Bihar, India, on the 8th January, 1960.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47164992/soheria-meteorite/



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