01-08-2007, 06:04 AM
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January 8th
1324 ~ Death of Marco Polo Italian explorer.
1642 ~ Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.
1735 ~ Birthday of John Carroll, first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
1815 ~ U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the closing engagement of the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gerald Durrell, Naturalist & Writer.
1926 ~ Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud became the King of Saudi Arabia.
1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist.
1958 ~ Bobby Fischer won the U.S. Chess Championship.
1994 ~ Valeri Polyakov began his record setting 437 days in space.
1999 ~ Cosmologists announced that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
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