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The Eighth Day of January

-- Born on this date in 1823, in Usk, Wales, British naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, who is remembered for developing a theory of evolution by natural selection during the same time period as that of Charles Darwin. In 1858 he sent a written account of his work to Charles Darwin, who then arranged to have Wallace's work announced to the public at the same time as his own. Wallace and Darwin arrived at their conclusions separately. However, it was Darwin's famous On the Origin of Species, published in 1859 that made their theories known worldwide.
-- Born on this date in 1824, in London, England, Wilkie Collins, known to many as the creator of detective fiction. His novel The Moonstone (1868) is considered the first English detective novel.
-- Born on this date in 1891, in Oranienburg, Germany, scientist Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe, who developed the coincidence method of particle detection. Both shared the 1954 Nobel in physics with Max Born.
-- On this date in 1918, then President Woodrow Wilson delivered his famous "Fourteen Points" speech to a joint session of Congress.
-- Born on this date in 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, American rock music pioneer, Elvis Aaron Presley, whose body of work is still highly popular in 21st century American culture.
-- Born on this date in 1942, in Oxford, England, theoretical physicist and mathematician, Stephen William Hawking. Hawking is known for his explanations to the general public of complicated concepts of theoretical physics in common terms which a non-scientist can comprehend, beginning with his book A Brief History of Time (1988).
-- On this date in 1975, Windsor Locks, Connecticut native, Ella T. Grasso began her tenure as governor of Connecticut. Grasso was the first female in US history to be elected governor in her own right.

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