January 8th, 2009

Born on January 8th, 2009

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 6,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 644 days, exactly on March 9th, 2028, people who were born on January 8th, 2009 will be 7,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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 2009

17

Julia Butters

American actress

*April 15th, 2009, Los Angeles

17

Walker Scobell

American actor

*January 5th, 2009, Virginia Beach

16

Marius De Saeger

Belgian actor

*September 28th, 2009, City of Brussels

17

Lou Goossens

Belgian actor

*February 24th, 2009, Opdorp

16

Owen Cooper

English actor (born 2009)

*December 5th, 2009, Warrington

16

Willis Gibson

Tetris player from Oklahoma

*November 30th, 2009, Stillwater

17

Count Henrik of Monpezat

Danish former prince; son of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark

*May 4th, 2009, Rigshospitalet

16

Kim Kang-hoon

South Korean actor

*June 7th, 2009, Cheongju

17

Shin Rin-ah

South Korean actress

*May 14th, 2009, Seoul

16

Samaya Clark Gabriel

American basketball player

*October 1st, 2009, Brooklyn

16

Heo Yool

South Korean actress

*August 26th, 2009, South Korea

17

Claudia Scheunemann

Indonesian footballer (born 2009)

*April 24th, 2009, Tangerang

16

Kler Çaku

Albanian chess player

*November 30th, 2009, Shkodër

16

Leanne Bautista

Filipino child actress

*October 14th, 2009, Philippines

16

Alihan Türkdemir

Turkish actor

*June 29th, 2009, Istanbul

16

Fairooj Labiba

Bangladeshi singer

*June 13th, 2009, Khulna

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Public holidays on January 8th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on January 8th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on January 8th, 2009
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 2009 is a normal year and no leap year.

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