Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 8, 2021

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 * 1198 – Lotario de Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
 * 1735 – The opera Ariodante by George Frideric Handel was first performed in the Covent Garden Theatre, London.
 * 1904 – Blackstone Library, the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.
 * 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post-World War I peace in Europe.
 * 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.
 * 1964 – During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "war on poverty".
 * 1977 – Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing 7 people and injuring 37.
 * 1978 – Harvey Milk took office on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as the first openly gay man elected into public office in the United States.
 * 1981 – A local farmer reported a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
 * 2004 – RMS Queen Mary 2, at the time the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
 * Born/died: Athelm (d. 926)· Arcangelo Corelli (d. 1713)· James Longstreet (b. 1821)· Wilkie Collins (b. 1824)· Fanny Bullock Workman (b. 1859)· Bronislava Nijinska (b. 1891)· Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (d. 1941)