January 8: Tenth of Tevet (Judaism, 2017)
Blackstone Library, Chicago
- 1198 – Lotario de Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
- 1697 – Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in Britain to be executed for blasphemy.
- 1904 – Blackstone Library (pictured), the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.
- 1977 – Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37.
- 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashed in extensive fog during final approach to Diyarbakır Airport in Turkey, leaving only five survivors out of 80 people on board.
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