8 Exceptional Events That Happened on January 8

8 Exceptional 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.

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 of helping people buy and sell homes in San Jose, Cupertino and Palo Alto, they just add fun and fascination to life.

8 Exceptional Events That Happened on January 8

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

1790 - 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 which became the standard (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 – 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. 

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