January 8
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January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 357 days remain until the end of the year (358 in leap years).
- 626 CE – Birth of Imam al-Husayn (a), the third Imam of the Shi'a, (Sha'ban 3, 4 AH)
- 1901 CE - Demise of Mirza Muhammad Hashim Khwansari (Ramadan 17, 1318 AH)
- 1921 CE - Demise of Sayyid Muhammad Tabataba'i Sangilaji (Rabi' II 27, 1339 AH)
- 1932 CE - Birth of Nasr Allah Shahabadi (Sha'ban 28, 1350 AH)
- 1942 CE - Birth of Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi (Dhu l-Hijja 20, 1360 AH)
- 1956 CE - Demise of Muhaqqiq Zahid (Jumada I 24, 1375 AH)
- 1956 CE - Demise of Mirza 'Ali Aqa Shirazi, a mystic and one of the professors of Isfahan Seminary (Jumada I 24, 1375 AH)
- 2020 CE - The missile attack of Iran's IRGC on Ain al-Asad, the American airbase in Iraq, in response to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. 1441 AH)