TODAY IN HISTORY

Jan. 8, 1918

President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1642

Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.

1790

President George Washington delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress in New York.

1867

The U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, giving black men in the nation’s capital the right to vote.

1935

Rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.

1959

Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France’s Fifth Republic.

2011

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot and critically wounded when a gunman opened fire as the congresswoman met with constituents in Tucson; six people were killed, 12 others also injured. was sentenced in November 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.)

1968

The Otis Redding single “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was released on the Volt label almost a month after the singer’s death in a plane crash.

1976

Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, 77, died in Beijing.