Template:Selected anniversaries/January 8

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  1964: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.

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  1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram computes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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  2014: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association votes against transdimensional corporation status.

1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.

1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".

1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1616)

1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1972)

1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)