January 8th, 1988

Born on January 8th, 1988

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 14,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 922 days, exactly on February 1st, 2029, people who were born on January 8th, 1988 will be 15,000 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

Born on January 8th, 1988

38

Adrián López Álvarez

Spanish footballer

*January 8th, 1988, Teberga

38

Michael Mancienne

English footballer

*January 8th, 1988, Isleworth

38

Bodene Thompson

New Zealand rugby league footballer

*January 8th, 1988, Tauranga

38

Alex Tyus

American-Israeli basketball player who converted to Judaism

*January 8th, 1988, Abilene

38

Lasse Nielsen

Danish footballer

*January 8th, 1988, Aalborg

Same year
Born in 1988

37

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

38

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

38

Sarah Jane Scott

American musician

*February 29th, 1988, Wayne County

38

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

38

Gzuz

German rapper

*June 29th, 1988, Hamburg

37

Mizuki Fujii

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1988, Ashikita

38

Chan Yun Lung

Badminton player

*February 29th, 1988, Hong Kong

38

KC Rebell

German rapper

*January 26th, 1988, Pazarcık

38

Rvssian

Jamaican record producer, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur

*April 12th, 1988, Kingston

38

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

38

Christian Meaas Svendsen

Norwegian musician

*February 26th, 1988, Kongsberg Municipality

38

Merve Özbey

Turkish singer

*July 18th, 1988, Istanbul

37

Fuse ODG

Ghanaian-English singer, songwriter and rapper

*December 2nd, 1988, Tooting

38

Fynn Kliemann

German influencer

*May 1st, 1988, Zeven

37

Jérôme Boateng

German association football player

*September 3rd, 1988, West Berlin

38

Andy Mineo

American musician (born 1988)

*April 17th, 1988, Syracuse

38

Pramod Bhagat

Indian para-badminton player

*June 4th, 1988, Attabira

37

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

38

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

Danish actress

*May 23rd, 1988, Copenhagen

38

Monika Lewczuk

Polish singer-songwriter and former model

*June 10th, 1988, Łomża

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Born on January 8th, 1988
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Leap year

Yes: 1988 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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January 1988