Immediately is Thursday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2026. There are 357 days left within the 12 months.
Immediately in historical past:
On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union deal with, declared an “unconditional struggle on poverty in America.”
Additionally on this date:
In 1790, President George Washington delivered the primary State of the Union deal with in New York Metropolis.
In 1815, the final main engagement of the Struggle of 1812 got here to an finish as U.S. forces defeated the British within the Battle of New Orleans, not having acquired phrase of the December signing of a peace treaty.
In 1867, the U.S. Home of Representatives joined the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Act, giving Black males within the nation’s capital the proper to vote.
In 1998, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM’-zee YOO’-sef), the mastermind of the 1993 World Commerce Heart bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in jail with out the potential of parole.
In 2011, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot and critically wounded when a gunman opened fireplace because the congresswoman met with constituents in Tucson; six individuals have been killed and 12 others have been injured. (Gunman Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced in 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.)
In 2016, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the world’s most-wanted drug lord, was captured for a 3rd time in a daring raid by Mexican marines, six months after strolling by means of a tunnel to freedom from a maximum-security jail.
In 2020, Iran struck again at the US for killing Iran’s high army commander, firing missiles at two Iraqi army bases housing American troops. Greater than 100 U.S. service members have been recognized with traumatic mind accidents later. As Iran braced for a counterattack the identical day, the nation’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a Ukrainian jetliner departing Tehran after apparently mistaking it for a missile, killing all 176 individuals on board.
In 2023, supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refused to just accept his election defeat, stormed Congress, the Supreme Courtroom and the presidential palace within the capital of Brasilia, every week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Immediately’s birthdays:
- Singer Shirley Bassey is 89.
- Dressmaker Carolina Herrera is 87.
- Nation-gospel singer Cristy Lane is 86.
- Rock musician Robby Krieger (The Doorways) is 80.
- Singer Jenny Lewis is 50.
- Filmmaker and actor Sarah Polley is 47.
- Actor Gaby Hoffman is 44.
- Actor Cynthia Erivo is 39.
- Actor Drew Scheid is 28.