Today in History - History - January 8th

1959Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic

2002President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.

1954Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"

2013Steve Nash records his 10,000th career assist against Houston

1992George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap

1877Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1962Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th

1995Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1993NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman

1993Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point

1942Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)

1935Elvis Presley, Tupelo Miss, American singer and King of Rock and Roll (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)

1821James Longstreet, Confederate general (1st Corps, ANV)

1969R. Kelly [Robert Sylvester Kelly], Chicago, Illinois, American R&B singer (I Wish I Could Fly)

1811US Vice President John C. Calhoun (28) weds Floride Bonneau (19)

1951Actor Burgess Meredith (43) weds ballerina Kaja Sundsten

1825Eli Whitney, American inventor (Cotton Gin), dies of prostate cancer at 59

1972Kenneth Patchen, US writer (See You in the Morning), dies at 60

1324Marco Polo, Venetian explorer, dies at 69

1976Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)

1946Dion Fortune, British occultist and author dies at 55

1642Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy