Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 8

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 * 1198 – Lotario dei Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
 * 1735 – George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
 * 1790 – George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
 * 1889 – American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electromechanical tabulating machine for punched-card data.
 * 1918 – U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe.
 * 1936 – Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public.
 * 1956 – Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
 * 1972 – Following Pakistan's defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) from prison in response to international pressure.
 * 1991 – Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in Richardson, Texas, an event that inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy".
 * 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, killing three people.


 * Born/died: | Athelm |d|926| Marco Polo |d|1324| Kadi Burhan al-Din |b|1345| Nicholas Biddle |b|1786| James Longstreet |b|1821| Fanny Bullock Workman |b|1859| Nikolay Nekrasov |d|1878| Mór Kóczán |b|1885| Bronislava Nijinska |b|1891| Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell |d|1941 |  David Bowie |b|1947|