8 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 8

8 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 8

By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley real estate guide selling homes in San Jose

Do you enjoy learning new things daily? If you’ve read my blog, you know one of the pastimes I enjoy is discovering new facts and interesting pieces of history.

I like to share intriguing stories from our local newspaper the San Jose Mercury News, as well as from some of my favorite print and online magazines Mental Floss, the National Geographic Society or  Smithsonian Magazine. Other times I find articles or facts online at  The History Place, Brainy History,orDates In History.These events for today’s blog post are primarily from Wikipedia.

While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with my real estate business, helping people like you buy and sell homes in Silicon Valley, Calif. and beyond. I admit, they just add fun and fascination to life.

Here are today’s 8 world-changing events that happened in history on today’s date, January 8. I hope you find them interesting, too.

8 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 8

1675 - The first corporation was chartered in the United States. The company was the New York Fishing Company.

1790 - In the United States, President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.

1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph code he had devised using dots and dashes to represent   letters of the alphabet. Vail’s code was the predecessor to Samuel Morse's code (Morse Code).

1856 - Borax (hydrated sodium borate) was discovered by Dr. John Veatch.

1889 - The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman Hollerith. His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

1935 - The spectrophotometer was patented by A.C. Hardy.

1958 – Teen-ager Bobby Fisher, at the age of 14, won the United States Chess Championship for the first time.

1997 - Mister Rogers, creator and star of the children’s educational program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Thank you for reading. You may want to read my blog at www.activerain.com/results for more fun facts on history, real estate, home, life and other topics. I hope you learned something new from reading about these 8 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 8.

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