January 8 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for January 8
In the headlines today:

2006		Scooby Doo creator Iwao Takamoto dies in Los Angeles, at age 81.
2003	The daughters of slain civil rights leader Malcom X turn over their father's papers and personal effects to a Harlem (New York) library.
1987	The Dow Jones industrial average (stock market index) closes at over 2000 points for the first time.
1965	NBC TV debuts the weekly rock 'n roll TV dance show Hullabaloo.
1958	Bobby Fisher wins the US Chess Championship at age 14.
1957	Jackie Robinson announces his retirement from baseball.
1954		President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposes that convicted Communists lose their US citizenship. (photo credit: Times Books)
1940	Great Britain begins the rationing of meat, butter, and sugar to help the war effort during WWII.
1908	Subway transit service between Brooklyn and Manhattan begins.
1901	The first American Bowling Congress tournament begins in Chicago.
1900	The Boers attack the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but the Brits hold fast.
1892	A hundred workers die in a mine explosion in McAlister, OK.
1856	Dr. John Veatch discovers Borax (hydrated sodium borate), still popular as a hand and laundry cleaner ingredient in the 1950s and 1960s.
1815	Andrew Jackson's troops defeat the British at Chalmette in the Battle of New Orleans.
1675	The New York Fishing Company becomes the first corporation to be chartered in the US.
1642	Astronomer Galileo Galilei dies in Arcetri, Italy at age 77.