January 8th 1935. "Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell. It's down at the end of lonely street at heartbreak hotel…" Elvis Presley, the King of rock-and-roll, whose fame inspired countless performers, is born in Tupelo, Mississippi.

1964. "This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America." In Washington, President Lyndon B. Johnson vows to help America's poor in his first State of Union speech to Congress.

1998. Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of 1993 bombing in New York's World Trade Center, gets life in prison. Just a few years later, the twin towers collapse in the September 11 terrorist attacks.

And 1942. "This result implies that everything in the universe is determined by the laws of science." Stephen Hawking, the physicist whose works include A Brief History of Time, is born in Oxford, England.

Today in history. January 8th. Sandy Kozel. The Associated Press.

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