Friday, January 8, 2016

Lets See Today In History



Yea lets check today in history being January 8 2016.

  • On January 8, 2015, the U.S. has fined American Honda Motor Company $70 million for neglecting to report, from mid-2003 to mid-2014, over 1,700 safety issues that resulted in deaths or injuries.
  • 2013, thousands of people on Australia's east coast are threatened by over 130 wildfires burning, and are forced to leave their homes and the U.S. scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded on the same day, January 8.
  • On January 8, 2012, after a year of being held hostage by pirates, 15 Georgian soldiers are released through efforts of the Somalian government.
  • On January 8, 1998,  the World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was sentenced to life.
  • On January 8, 1992, George Bush got ill and vomitted on the Japanese prime minister's lap.
  • On January 8, 1904, Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen.
  • On January 8, 1973, famous Jamaican musician, Sean Paul was born.
  • On January 8, 1642, Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy.

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