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Events on January 8

• 1705 At the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg, the world premiere of George Frideric Handel's first opera, Almira, Queen of Castile, takes place with great success, conducted by Reinhard Keiser.
• 1889 Herman Hollerith files a patent application for a system for processing punch cards and thereby lays the foundation for machine-based data processing.
• 1899 After just one win in 19 games, the First Vienna Workers' Football Club, which had been founded a year and a half earlier, takes the name Sportklub Rapid Wien at a crisis meeting. This is now regarded as the club's official founding day.
• 1918 In his 14-point program, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson describes the European peace settlement planned by him after the First World War before both houses of the U.S. Congress. A central point is the right of self-determination of peoples.
• 1939 Sportklub Rapid Wien defeats FSV Frankfurt 3:1 in the Tschammerpokal at the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
• 1963 The German Federal Holiday Act is promulgated.
• 1973 ARD's 1st program and the 3rd program of the broadcasters NDR, RB and SFB begin airing the preschool and children's series Sesame Street in German.
• 1994 The Russian spacecraft Soyuz launches on its Soyuz TM-18 mission to the Mir space station. Among those on board is the flight surgeon Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, who will set a world record for a sustained spaceflight with more than 437 days in space.
• 2004 The world's largest passenger ship at the time is christened Queen Mary 2 by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain in Southampton.
• 2018 Despite protests, the parish church of St. Lambertus, known as the "Immerath Cathedral," is demolished in favor of the Garzweiler lignite open-pit mine.
• 2020 A few minutes after takeoff in Tehran (Iran), Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down. The aircraft was on its way to Kyiv (Ukraine). All 176 people on board, including 167 passengers and nine crew members, lose their lives.
• 2024 The "Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht – Reason and Justice" party is founded.

Born on January 8

• 1891 Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1901 Walter Dirks, German publicist, writer and journalist
• 1902 Georgy Maksimovich Malenkov, Soviet politician
• 1910 Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina
• 1941 Graham Chapman, British actor and writer
• 1951 John McTiernan, American film director and producer
• 1971 Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
• 1972 Paul Panzer, German comedian and actor
• 1990 Sascha Bigalke, German footballer
• 2001 Lena Schilling, Austrian climate activist

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „8. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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