Today is January, the 8th day of 2016. There are 349 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight In History;
Birthdays:
| 1897 | Dennis Wheatley, English thriller novelist |
| 1934 | Roy Kinnear, Comedy actor |
| 1935 | Elvis Presley, American rock singer |
| 1937 | Shirley Bassey, Welsh born singer |
| 1942 | Stephen Hawking, English physicist/mathematician |
| 1947 | David Bowie, English rock singer and film actor |
| 1961 | Calvin Smith, American sprinter |
| 1993 | Ojo Samuel the young achiever was born in Otukpo,Benue State of Nigeria |
Events:
| 1642 | Galileo Galilei, the Italian scientist and astronomer, died |
| 1886 | Britain's longest railway tunnel, The Severn Railway Tunnel, was opened |
| 1940 | Because of the Second World War, food rationing in Britain began |
| 1941 | Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouts movement, died |
| 1974 | A new government post was created, the Secretary of State For Energy |
| 1982 | Blizzards struck Britain, causing a weekend of chaos |
| 1987 | The privatisation of British Airways was launched |
| 1990 | Lt. General Dornkat Bali's retirement from the army is announced. |
| 1996 | 19 labour unions under the umbrella of the Nigerian Labour Congress, merged into 7 in preparation for the April date for NLC elections. |
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