January 8 in history: India's first woman pilot passed away in 1984
Bengaluru, Jan 8: Today is Thursday, January 8, 2015. What happened on this day in history? Oneindia takes a look at the past:
1745: England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands form an alliance against Russia.
1871: Prussian troops targetted Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1892: 100 killed in a cole mine explosion in McAlister, Oklahoma, USA.
1918: US president Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace programme.
1946: US president Harry S Truman vowed to stand by the Yalta accord on the Balkans' self-determination.
1958: Bobby Fischer won the US Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.
1959: Charles de Gaulle became the first president of the Fifth French Republic.
1963: President John F Kennedy attended the unveiling of the Mona Lisa.
1964: US president Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.
1968: The Official Languages Act, 1963 was amended.
1984: Sushma Mukhopadhyay, India's first woman pilot, died at 74.
1994: Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov left earth for the Mir space station and spent a record 437 days in space.
1995:
Veteran
national
leader
Madhu
Limaye
passed
away.
1998:
Ramzi
Yousef,
the
mastermind
of
the
1993
World
Trade
Center
bombing
was
sentenced
to
life
in
prison.
2002: US President George W Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law to improve America's educational system.
2004: The largest passenger ship in history, the RMS Queen Mary 2, was christened by Queen Elizabeth II, granddaughter of Queen Mary.
2011: House of Representatives member from Arizona Gabrielle Giffords was wounded along with 16 others at a shooting outside a grocery store.
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