What Happened in January 2008

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January2008 Calendar

Historical Events

Jan 7 College Football, 10th BCS National Championship Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: #2 LSU beats #1 Ohio State, 38-24

Redskins Coach Retires Again

Jan 8 Joe Gibbs retires, for the second time, as head coach of the Washington Redskins

Jan 8 New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.

Jan 13 Orlando Magic knock down a then NBA-record 23 3-pointers in 37 attempts (62.2%); Jameer Nelson goes 5-for-5 from beyond the arc as Magic beat the Sacramento Kings, 139-107
Jan 14 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a Mercury flyby
Jan 15 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority members celebrate 100th anniversary by donating $1 million to scholarship funds at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Clooney Messenger of Peace

Jan 18 The United Nations announce George Clooney as a UN messenger of peace

Jan 20 AFC Championship, Gillette Stadium, Foxborough: New England Patriots beat San Diego Chargers, 21-12
Jan 20 Frenchman Francis Joyon becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world, taking 57 days, 13 hours and 34 minutes
Jan 20 NFC Championship, Lambeau Field, Green Bay: New York Giants beat Green Bay Packers, 23-20 (OT)
Jan 21 Fears of a possible US recession cause a Black Monday for global stock markets, European stocks suffer their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%
Jan 21 The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies

Jan 27 24th Sundance Film Festival: "Frozen River", directed by Courtney Hunt, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Jan 27 56th NHL All-Star Game, Phillips Arena, Atlanta, GA: Eastern Conference beats Western Conference, 8-7; MVP: Eric Staal, Carolina, C

Famous Divorces

Daniel Johns

Jan 4 Australian pop diva Natalie Imbruglia (32) and "Silverchair" frontman Daniel Johns (28) announce their divorce stating "we have simply grown apart through not being able to spend enough time together"

Famous Deaths

Jan 1 Harold Corsini, American photographer, dies from a stroke at 88
Jan 1 Peter Caffrey, Irish actor, dies at 58
Jan 1 Pratap Chandra Chunder, Indian union minister, dies at 88
Jan 1 Salvatore Bonanno, American mafioso & son of crime boss Joseph Bonanno, dies of a heart attack at 75
Jan 2 Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Naradhiwas, dies at 84
Jan 2 George MacDonald Fraser, British poet and author (Flashman at the Charge), dies at 82
Jan 2 Gerry Staley, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1952-53, 60; St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox), dies of natural causes at 87
Jan 2 Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician, dies at 81
Jan 3 Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
Jan 3 Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
Jan 3 Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
Jan 3 Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (Lineal & WBC light flyweight titles 1999-2002), dies of brain damage after fight at 35
Jan 4 Jimmy Nah, Singapore celebrity (b. 1968)
Jan 4 John O'Donohue, Irish poet (Anam Cara; Benedictus), philosopher, theologian, and one-time priest, dies at 52
Jan 4 Joyce Carlson, American artist (b. 1923)
Jan 4 Mort Garson, Canadian-American composer ("Our Day Will Come") and Moog synthesizer pioneer, dies of renal failure at 83

Jan 4 Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist and newspaper editor (La Prensa; El Nuevo Diario), dies of heart disease at 75
Jan 5 Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
Jan 5 Irene Reid, American jazz singer ("I Must Be Doing Something Right"). dies at 77
Jan 5 Thomas Gray, English pioneering anaesthetist, dies at 94
Jan 7 Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
Jan 8 Clyde Otis, American songwriter and music producer (b. c. 1924)
Jan 8 George Moore, Australian jockey (Epsom Derby 1967, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 1959, Prix du Jockey Club 1960, Irish 1000 Guineas 1959, 5 x Doomben 10,000, 3 x Sydney Cup), dies at 84
Jan 9 John Harvey-Jones, English businessman and chairman of ICI (1982-87), dies at 83
Jan 9 Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer, and "honorary mayor" of Hollywood, dies at 84
Jan 9 Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
Jan 9 William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950)
Jan 10 (Walter) "Pete" Candoli, American jazz, big band, and session trumpeter (Woody Herman; Stan Kenton; Henry Mancini; The Brothers Candoli), dies of prostate cancer at 84
Jan 10 Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
Jan 10 Maila Nurmi [Syrjäniemi], Finnish-American actress (The Vampira Show), dies at 85
Jan 10 Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)

Jan 11 Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)

Jan 13 Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
Jan 13 Sergei Larin, Lithuanian operatic tenor, dies at 51
Jan 14 Judah Folkman, American pediatric surgeon and cancer researcher (angiogenesis), dies of a heart attack at 74
Jan 15 Brad Renfro, American actor (The Client), dies of heroin overdose at 25
Jan 15 Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, English Game Designer (Zombies Ate My Neighbors), dies of cancer (b. 1964)
Jan 17 Allan Melvin, American character actor (Brady Bunch, All in Family), dies of cancer at 84

Jan 17 Rod Allen [Bainbridge] British pop-rock singer and bassist (Fortunes - "You've Got Your Troubles"; "Here It Comes Again"), dies of cancer at 63
Jan 18 Frank Lewin, German-American composer and music theorist (Yale, 1971-92), dies at 82
Jan 18 Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (co-owner Cleveland/Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams 1979–2008), dies at 80
Jan 18 John Stroger American politician (Cook County (Illinois) Board of Commissioners, 1970-2006), dies at 78
Jan 18 John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
Jan 19 Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
Jan 19 John Stewart, American pop-folk singer, guitsrist, banjo player (Kingston Trio, 1961-67), and songwriter ("Daydream Believer"), dies of a stroke at 68
Jan 19 Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (The Birds; The Bob Newhart Show - "Emily"), dies at 70
Jan 20 Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man (oldest survivor from WWI), dies at 110
Jan 20 Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, Latvian-Canadian composer, organist, and pedagogue, dies at 88
Jan 21 Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
Jan 21 Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)

Jan 22 Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
Jan 22 Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
Jan 22 Ștefan Niculescu, Romanian composer, dies at 80
Jan 24 J. Robert Hooper, American politician, dies at 71
Jan 24 Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
Jan 25 Christopher Allport, American actor (To Live and Die in L.A.), dies at 60
Jan 25 Evelyn Barbirolli, English musician (b. 1911)
Jan 26 Christian Brando, American actor and son of Marlon Brando, dies of pneumonia at 49
Jan 26 Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer, dies at 101
Jan 27 Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1995-2008), dies at 97
Jan 27 Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)

Jan 28 Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist, dies at 82
Jan 28 Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
Jan 29 Margaret Truman, American presidential daughter, singer and writer (Murder at FBI), dies at 83
Jan 29 Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
Jan 29 Raymond Jacobs, American Marine Corp sergeant (one of the WWII Iwo Jima flag planters), and news journalist, dies at 82
Jan 30 Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, Icelandic classical, choral, and jazz composer (Samstæður; Fyrir þitt friðarorð - For Your Peace), dies at 79
Jan 30 Jeremy Beadle, British television host (Beadle's About), dies of pneumonia at 59
Jan 30 Marcial Maciel, Mexican Catholic priest (founded the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi), dies at 79
Jan 30 Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian stage and screen actor, and film dubber, dies in a car crash at 38
Jan 31 Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)

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