This Day in History: January 8

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January 8

The Battle of New Orleans, the last battle in the War of 1812, was fought.

Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.

Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.

President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.

The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."

The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.