On this day... January 8:

On this day...

January 8: Kim Jong-un's Birthday in North Korea 1297 – Francesco Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco. 1889 – Statistician Herman Hollerith (pictured) received apatent for his electric tabulating machine, the precursor to modern computers. 1920 – The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I, collapsed in complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. 1964 – During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty". 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.