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📜 Today in History — 8 January
🌍 Important Events
1297 – Monaco becomes independent from Genoa.
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his famous “Fourteen Points”, outlining a plan for world peace after World War I.
1959 – Charles de Gaulle becomes the first President of the Fifth Republic of France.
1961 – France votes in a referendum to approve Algeria’s independence process.
2020 – A Ukrainian passenger plane is tragically shot down near Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.
🎂 Famous Birthdays
Elvis Presley (1935) – Legendary American singer, known as the King of Rock and Roll.
Stephen Hawking (1942) – World-famous British physicist and cosmologist.
David Bowie (1947) – Iconic English musician and actor.
🕊️ Notable Deaths
Galileo Galilei (1642) – Renowned Italian astronomer and scientist who changed our understanding of the universe.
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