Today is Thursday, January 8, the eighth day of 2009. There are 357 days left in the year.
1838 _ First telegraph message sent using dots and dashes, New Jersey
1918 _ President Wilson outlines his 14-points for peace after WWI
1925 _ First all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas
1926 _ Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia
1956 _ Elvis Presley's ``Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
1958 _ Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1959 _ Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic
1964 _ President Lyndon B. Johnson declares ``War on Poverty"
1973 _ Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris
1996 _ For first time in 25 years, no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame