January 8 in history: • 1735 – George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre (pictured) in London. → go there • 1790 – George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States. → go there • 1939 – The New Deal for Aborigines was formally announced by the Australian government, providing for full civil rights for Indigenous Australians in exchange for cultural assimilation. → go there • 1991 – Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in Richardson, Texas, an event that inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy". → go there • 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 in Angola, killing three people. → go there Died 926: Athelm Wiki link Pictured: Covent Garden Theatre.