Portal:United States/Anniversaries/January/January 8
- State of the Union Address in New York City.
- Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
- 1935 – Elvis Presley (pictured), cultural icon and one of the most popular singers of the 20th century, was born.
- War on Poverty" in the United States.
- Safewaygrocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.