- 1675] Something smells fishy: The first corporation in the U.S. is the New York Fishing Company. Rudy Giuliani discovers corruption and closes it down...
- 1952] Premiered on this date: Marie Wilson comes to TV as "My Friend Irma." The show has a brief two-year run after a more successful radio career...
- 1958] Chess King: 14-year old Brooklynite Bobby Fisher wins his first U.S. Chess championship...
- 1964] War is declared: President Lyndon Baines Johnson declares a 'War on poverty'...
- 1976] 'Happy Trails': Chinese premier Chou En-Lai dies of bladder cancer at 77...1996] Former French president Francois Mitterand is a victim of prostate cancer at 79...
- 1982] Ring my bell: American Telephone & Telegraph settles the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies. They were broken into 'baby' Bell's..
- 1994] Guilty as charged: Tonya Harding wins the U.S. Lady's Figure Skating Championship in Detroit but is stripped of the title for involvement in the Nancy Kerrigan knee bashing...1998] Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life without parole for his role in masterminding the first WTC bombing in New York. Yousef is now making license plates in a Colorado maximum security prison...
- 2002] No Child Left Behind: George W. Bush signs into law the controversial NCLB Act...
- 2007] It's just New Jersey I: An unknown stench covers Manhattan and Jersey City (NJ) resulting in the evacuation of several high-rise buildings and the temporary shutdown of PATH train service through the Hudson River...
- 2008] It's just New Jersey II: The Garden State officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so. New Jersey fails to apologize for the 2007 stench however...For more on January 8th:
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