📅 January 8 in the Time Tunnel
What happened on January 8? Travel back in time and find out — then test yourself with the quiz.
⏳ On this day in history
- 1889Herman Hollerith got a patent for a calculating machine that used punched cards — an early ancestor of computers
- 1994Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov set off for the Mir space station, where he stayed for more than 14 months
- 2004The Queen Mary 2, then the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened
🎂 Born on January 8
- 🌌 Stephen Hawking (1942) — physicist who studied black holes
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January 8 quiz
In what year? 🧮 Herman Hollerith got a patent for a calculating machine that used punched cards — an early ancestor of computers
In what year? 🚀 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov set off for the Mir space station, where he stayed for more than 14 months
In what year? 🚢 The Queen Mary 2, then the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened
Which famous person was born on January 8?