January 8th, 1728

Born on January 8th, 1728

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 108,000 days old!

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What happened on January 8th?

January 8th, 2011

Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a public meeting held by U.S. representative Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people and injuring twelve others.

January 8th, 2010

Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, killing three people.

January 8th, 1991

Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in Richardson, Texas, an event that inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy".

January 8th, 1981

In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".

January 8th, 1977

Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37 people.

January 8th, 1972

Following Pakistan's defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) from prison in response to international pressure.

January 8th, 1964

During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "war on poverty".

January 8th, 1936

Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public.

January 8th, 1918

U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe.

January 8th, 1904

Blackstone Library (pictured), the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.

January 8th, 1889

American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electromechanical tabulating machine for punched-card data.

January 8th, 1790

George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.

January 8th, 1735

George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre (pictured) in London.

January 8th, 1198

Lotario dei Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.

January 8th, 1933

Anarchist insurrection of January 1933 breaks out in Barcelona, Spain.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 8th

Same year
Born in 1728

50

James Cook

British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)

*October 27th, 1728, Marton †February 14th, 1779, Kealakekua Bay

34

Peter III of Russia

The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)

*February 10th, 1728, Kiel †July 6th, 1762, Ropsha

49

Johann Heinrich Lambert

German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)

*August 26th, 1728, Mulhouse †September 25th, 1777, Berlin

78

Shah Alam II

16th Mughal Emperor from 1760 to 1806

*June 25th, 1728, Old Delhi †November 19th, 1806, Delhi

80

Matthew Boulton

English manufacturer, industrialist 1728-1809, business partner of James Watt

*September 3rd, 1728, Birmingham †August 17th, 1809, Birmingham

82

Karl Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Baden

German noble (1728-1811)

*November 22nd, 1728, Karlsruhe †June 10th, 1811, Karlsruhe

56

Stanislaus Czerniewicz

Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus (1728–1785)

*August 15th, 1728, Kaunas †July 7th, 1785, Stajki

56

Paolo Frisi

Italian mathematician and astronomer (1728-1784)

*April 13th, 1728, Melegnano †November 22nd, 1784, Milan

63

Jacob Vernes

Genevan Protestant minister

*May 31st, 1728, Geneva †October 22nd, 1791, Geneva

76

Franz Xaver von Wulfen

Austrian scientist (1728-1805)

*November 5th, 1728, Belgrade †March 17th, 1805, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

72

Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla

Italian physician, surgeon, pathologist (1728-1800)

*April 15th, 1728, San Zenone al Po †July 30th, 1800, Padua

36

Christian Braunmann Tullin

Norwegian poet (1728-1765)

*September 6th, 1728, Christiania †January 21st, 1765, Christiania

62

Georg Christian Oeder

German-Danish botanist (1728-1791)

*February 3rd, 1728, Ansbach †January 28th, 1791, Oldenburg

72

Pierre Gaviniès

French violin maker, violinist and composer

*May 11th, 1728, Bordeaux †September 8th, 1800, Paris

81

Chevalier d'Éon

French diplomat, spy and soldier. d’Éon lived openly as a trans woman while in exile in England.

*October 5th, 1728, Tonnerre †May 21st, 1810, London

50

Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and abbess of Gandersheim Abbey

*June 4th, 1728, Wolfenbüttel †June 26th, 1778, Gandersheim Abbey

65

Richard Mique

French architect

*September 18th, 1728, Nancy †July 8th, 1794, Paris

54

Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner

German writer, civil servant and opinion journalist

*October 17th, 1728, Traunstein †June 4th, 1783, Munich

80

José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca

Spanish lawyer and civil servant (1728-1808)

*October 21st, 1728, Murcia †December 30th, 1808, Seville

75

Carlo Allioni

Italian physician and professor of botany (1728-1804)

*September 3rd, 1728, Turin †July 30th, 1804, Turin

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Leap year

Yes: 1728 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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