📜 This Day in History

January 8

• 1198Lotario dei Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
• 1790George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
• 1918U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe.
• 1956Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
• 1981In 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".
• 2011Jared 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.

Born on this day

• 1823Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh geographer, biologist, and explorer (died 1913)
• 1935Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (died 1977)
• 1942Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (died 2018)
• 1947David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2016)