TODAY IN HISTORY - JANUARY 8TH

1735 – John Carroll, American archbishop, founder of Georgetown University (d. 1815) is born.

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

1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, 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.

1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.

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

1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.

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

1912 – The African National Congress is founded.

1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.

1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.

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

1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.

1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

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

2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932) dies.

2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in which five people were shot dead.