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January 8th, 2008	Event	New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so. Oddly enough, it happened within hours of the death of Clyde Otis.
January 8th, 2006	Event	A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
January 8th, 2004	Event	The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
January 8th, 2002	Event	President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
January 8th, 1996	Event	An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
January 8th, 1994	Event	Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
January 8th, 1989	Event	The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 onboard.
January 8th, 1989	Event	Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
January 8th, 1982	Event	AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
January 8th, 1979	Event	The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).

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