![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/05862e3658d8a0c22d87c596133d6e79/5b380fbe625b2089-94/s500x750/602ff39477da42e2ef5753dd23bc832a8809b047.jpg)
A bit of January 8th history…
1790 - US President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union Address
1816 - Sophie Germain is 1st woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elaticity
1835 - US debt is $0 for 1st and only time in history
1902 - Bill passed to criminalize men turning around on a street and “looking at a woman in that way”
1926 - Abdulaziz Ibn Saud becomes King of Nedj and Hejaz; forerunner of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1978 - Harvey Milk becomes 1st openly gay person elected to public office in California (pictured)
1992 - US President George HW Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese Prime Ministers lap
2002 - US President George W Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act
Today In History: