What Happened In January 2008 In History

Historical Events for January, 2008

• 1st » Cyprus and Malta join the Eurozone.
• 17th » British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete Write-off known as hull loss of a Boeing 777.

Famous Birthdays on January in 2008

• 26th » Paul the Octopus, English octopus (d. 2010)

Famous Deaths for January 2008

• 1st » Salvatore Bonanno, American son of Joseph Bonanno (b. 1932)
• 1st » Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
• 1st » Pratap Chandra Chunder, Indian politician (b. 1919)
• 1st » Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
• 2nd » Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
• 2nd » George MacDonald Fraser, English journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2nd » Martinus Tels, Dutch physicist and engineer (b. 1926)
• 2nd » Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess (b. 1923)
• 3rd » Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
• 3rd » Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
• 3rd » Werner Dollinger, German economist and politician (b. 1918)
• 4th » Joyce Carlson, American graphic designer (b. 1923)
• 4th » Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1932)
• 4th » Jimmy Nah, Singaporean comedian and actor (b. 1968)
• 4th » Yannis Tamtakos, Greek activist (b. 1908)
• 5th » Clinton Grybas, Australian sportscaster (b. 1975)
• 6th » Alekos Michaelides, Cypriot politician (b. 1933)
• 6th » Pramod Karan Sethi, Indian Surgeon (b. 1927)
• 7th » Alwyn Schlebusch, South African politician, Vice State President of South Africa (b. 1917)
• 8th » George Moore (jockey) called George Moore, Australian jockey (b. 1923)
• 9th » Johnny Grant (radio personality) called Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (b. 1923)
• 9th » Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
• 9th » John Harvey-Jones, English businessman and television host (b. 1924)
• 10th » Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
• 10th » Mikhail Minin, Russian soldier (b. 1922)
• 10th » Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress (b. 1921)
• 13th » Sergej Larin, Latvian-Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
• 13th » Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
• 14th » Judah Folkman, American physician, biologist, and academic (b. 1933)
• 15th » Robert V. Bruce, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1923)
• 15th » Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, English video game designer (b. 1964)
• 15th » Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
• 17th » Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (b. 1943)
• 17th » Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
• 17th » Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
• 17th » Carlos (singer) known as Carlos, French singer and actor (b. 1943)
• 18th » Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (b. 1927)
• 18th » Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)
• 18th » John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
• 19th » Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
• 19th » John Stewart (musician) or John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
• 19th » Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 21st » Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
• 21st » Marie Smith Jones, American speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
• 21st » Kenneth Parnell, American sex offender (b. 1931)
• 22nd » Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
• 22nd » Heath Ledger, Australian actor and director (b. 1979)
• 22nd » Miles Lerman, Polish-American holocaust survivor and activist (b. 1920)
• 24th » Lee Embree, American sergeant and photographer (b. 1915)
• 24th » Randy Salerno, American journalist (b. 1963)
• 25th » Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
• 25th » Evelyn Barbirolli, English oboe player (b. 1911)
• 26th » Christian Brando, American actor (b. 1958)
• 26th » Viktor Schreckengost, American sculptor and designer (b. 1906)
• 27th » Suharto, Indonesian politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
• 27th » Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader and author, 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
• 27th » Louie Welch, American politician, 54th List of mayors of Houston called Mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
• 28th » Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939)
• 28th » Ginty Vrede, Dutch kick-boxer (b. 1985)
• 29th » Raymond Jacobs, American marine, member of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (b. 1925)
• 29th » Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
• 29th » Bengt Lindström, Swedish painter (b. 1925)
• 29th » Margaret Truman, American singer and author (b. 1924)
• 30th » Jeremy Beadle, English television host and producer (b. 1948)
• 30th » Marcial Maciel, Mexican priest, founded the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi (b. 1920)
• 30th » Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
• 31st » Zeltim Odie Peterson, American dog (b. 1997)

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