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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_8" title="January 8">January 8</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Mar%C3%ADa_de_Hostos" title="Eugenio María de Hostos">Eugenio María de Hostos's birthday</a></b> in Puerto Rico (2024)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1198" title="1198">1198</a> – Lotario dei Conti <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1198_papal_election" title="1198 papal election">was elected</a></b> as <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_III" title="Pope Innocent III">Pope Innocent III</a></b>; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889" title="1889">1889</a> – American statistician <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith" title="Herman Hollerith">Herman Hollerith</a></b> received a patent for his electromechanical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine" title="Tabulating machine">tabulating machine</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card" title="Punched card">punched-card</a> data.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Shah" title="Reza Shah">Reza Shah</a> issued the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashf-e_hijab" title="Kashf-e hijab">Kashf-e hijab</a></b> decree, ordering Iranian police to remove <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab" title="Hijab">hijabs</a> from any women in public.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a> – Following <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Instrument_of_Surrender" title="Pakistani Instrument of Surrender">Pakistan's defeat</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War" title="Bangladesh Liberation War">Bangladesh Liberation War</a>, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto" title="Zulfikar Ali Bhutto">Zulfikar Ali Bhutto</a> released Bangladeshi politician <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman" title="Sheikh Mujibur Rahman">Sheikh Mujibur Rahman</a></b> from prison in response to international pressure.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991" title="1991">1991</a> – Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson,_Texas" title="Richardson, Texas">Richardson, Texas</a>, an event that inspired the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam" title="Pearl Jam">Pearl Jam</a> song "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(song)" title="Jeremy (song)">Jeremy</a></b>".</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athelm" title="Athelm">Athelm</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 926); <b><span class="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Bullock_Workman" title="Fanny Bullock Workman">Fanny Bullock Workman</a></span></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1859); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie" title="David Bowie">David Bowie</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1947)</p>
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