Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. Crazy Horse (c. 1840–1877) was a…
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8 January 1940
Britain introduces food rationing during World War II. During World War II, the United Kingdom faced significant challenges, including the threat of German bombings, shortages…
8 January 2002
President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
8 January 2010
Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its…
8 January 1973
The Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. Forty-five years after the Soviet Lunokhod-2 robot explored the lifeless surface of the moon, a declassified document…
8 January 1982
AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. The breakup of the Bell System was mandated on January 8, 1982, by an agreed consent decree…
8 January 1962
A train crash in Harmelen, Netherlands killed 93 people. The Harmelen train disaster was the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands on…