8 January

A list of events which occurred on the 8th of January.
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:Boris Vallejo is born.
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: is born.
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:James Ingersoll is born.
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:Dan Woren is born.
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:Jeffrey S. Jensen is born.
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:Michelle Forbes is born.
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:Rachel Ketchum is born.
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:Fifth day of filming on .
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:Sixth day of filming on .
:Insert shots are filmed for by the Howard Anderson Company.
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:The Twenty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #15 with the fourth of six installments.
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:Tommy Lee Edwards and Donnell Turner are born.
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:107th day of filming on .
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:Frank Arnot and Rachel Nichols are born.
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:Forty-second day of filming on .
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:Christopher Russell is born.
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:Fifth day of filming on .
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: airs.
:First day of filming on .
:Larry Robb dies.
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:Second day of filming on .
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:Third day of filming on .
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:Third day of filming on .
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: airs.
:Third day of filming on .
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: airs.
:Ninth and final day of filming on .
:First day of filming on .
:Final draft script for is revised.
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: airs.
:First day of filming on .
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:Second day of filming on .
: premieres in Switzerland.
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:Fourth day of filming on .
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:Twenty-first day of filming on .
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: airs.
:First day of filming on .
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:Fourth day of filming on .
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:Phil Hetos dies.
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:Sci-Fi Channel begins to air on Mondays.
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:Tom Lay and Keely Sims die.
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:IDW Publishing releases issue #4 of Star Trek: Khan.
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:Gallery DIS novel, The Way to the Stars, by Una McCormack.
:Star Trek: Designing Starships – The USS Voyager and Beyond, a mass-market reprint of Star Trek: Designing Starships Volume Two, by Ben Robinson and Marcus Riley, from Random House is released.
:Little Golden Books, I Am Captain Kirk, by Frank Berrios is released.
:Little Golden Books, I Am Mr. Spock, by Elizabeth Schaefer is released.
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:Lloyd A. Buswell dies.
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:Steve Lightle dies.
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