TODAY IN HISTORY - JANUARY 8TH

1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.

1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

1825 – Eli Whitney, American inventor, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765) dies.

1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.

1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934) is born.

1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.

1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.

1909 – Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995) is born.

1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, burlesque entertainer and author (d. 1970) is born.

1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1977) is born.

1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author is born.

1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.

1967 – R. Kelly, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor is born.

1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.

1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".

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

2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.

2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.

2015 – Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (b. 1942) dies.