På denne dag: 8. januar
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1198: Historisk hendelse
Lotario dei Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
1697: Historisk hendelse
Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy.
1735: Historisk hendelse
George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre (pictured) in London.
1790: Historisk hendelse
George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
1889: Historisk hendelse
American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electromechanical tabulating machine for punched-card data.
1904: Historisk hendelse
Blackstone Library (pictured), the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.
1918: Historisk hendelse
U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe.
1928: Historisk hendelse
The Committee for Union Action is established in Guatemala.
1936: Historisk hendelse
Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public.
1939: Historisk hendelse
The New Deal for Aborigines was formally announced by the Australian government, providing for full civil rights for Indigenous Australians in exchange for cultural assimilation.
1956: Historisk hendelse
Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1972: Historisk hendelse
Following Pakistan's defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) from prison in response to international pressure.
1977: Historisk hendelse
Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37 people.
1981: Historisk hendelse
In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
1991: Historisk hendelse
Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in Richardson, Texas, an event that inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy".
2010: Historisk hendelse
Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, killing three people.
2011: Historisk hendelse
Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a public meeting held by U.S. representative Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people and injuring twelve others.
🔍 Om kildene og historisk datering
Å tidfeste hendelser tusenvis av år tilbake i tid er en krevende historievitenskapelig oppgave. Før innføringen av den julianske kalenderen (45 f.Kr.) og den gregorianske kalenderen (1582) benyttet ulike sivilisasjoner (romere, grekere, kinesere, babylonere) vidt forskjellige kalendersystemer basert på månesykluser eller lokale embetsperioder.
Slik merker vi dateringene:
• ✓ Sikker datering: Dokumentert i samtidige protokoller, offisielle traktater eller etter standardiserte kalendersystemer.
• ⚠️ Usikker / estimert: Hendelsen er historisk reell, men datoen er tradisjonell, basert på senere krøniker eller lunisolare omregninger.
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia On This Day arkiver og historiske registre.
- Store norske leksikon (SNL) – Norsk og internasjonal historie, biografier og årstallsverifisering.
- Encyclopædia Britannica – Verifisering av antikke slag, fredsavtaler og statsdannelser.
- NASA Historical Logs & Science Missions – Romfartshistoriske datoer og oppskytningstelemetri.