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• Today is Wednesday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2014. There are 357 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an "unconditional war on poverty in America."
• On this date:
• In 1790, President George Washington delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress in New York.
• In 1815, U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans - the closing engagement of the War of 1812.
• In 1912, the African National Congress was founded in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• In 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.
• In 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss.
• In 1959, Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.
• In 1973, the Paris peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam resumed.
• In 1982, American Telephone and Telegraph settled the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.
• In 1989, 47 people were killed when a British Midland Boeing 737-400 carrying 126 people crashed in central England.
• In 1994, Tonya Harding won the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of the clubbing attack that had injured her right knee. (The U.S. Figure Skating Association later stripped Harding of the title.)
• In 2003, a commuter plane crashed after takeoff from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board. A Turkish Airlines jet crashed in Turkey, killing 75 people (five passengers survived).
• In 2011, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot and critically wounded

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