Portal:United States/Anniversaries/January/January 8
- 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address in New York City.
- 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
- 1935 – Elvis Presley (pictured), cultural icon and one of the most popular singers of the 20th century, was born.
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
- 2011 – An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.