Today in History: January 08, 2018

• Lead Story

• 1877 Crazy Horse fights last battle

• American Revolution

• 1790 President George Washington delivers first State of the Union

• Automotive

• 1916 Bugatti brother commits suicide

• Civil War

• 1821 Confederate General James Longstreet born

• Cold War

• 1976 Chinese leader Zhou Enlai dies

• Crime

• 2011 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords injured in shooting rampage

• Disaster

• 1996 Cargo plane crashes into crowded market

• General Interest

• 1642 Astronomer Galileo dies in Italy
• 1815 The Battle of New Orleans
• 1867 Congress expands suffrage in nation’s capital
• 1916 Allies retreat from Gallipoli
• 1918 Wilson announces his 14 Points
• 1962 Mona Lisa exhibited in Washington

• Hollywood

• 1941 William Randolph Hearst stops Citizen Kane ads

• Literary

• 1976 Ragtime wins the National Book Critics Circle Award

• Music

• 1946 Elvis Presley receives his first guitar

• Old West

• 1877 Crazy Horse fights his final battle

• Presidential

• 1815 Jackson leads troops to victory at New Orleans
• 1918 Fourteen Points

• Sports

• 2000 Music City Miracle

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Operation Cedar Falls is launched
• 1973 Peace talks resume in Paris

• World War I

• 1917 Wilson outlines the Fourteen Points

• World War II

• 1940 Mussolini questions Hitler’s plans

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