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Month January 2008 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

  • January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).

    January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 2008

  • Day of Week 1st » Cyprus and Malta join the Eurozone.
  • Day of Week 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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