Today is Tuesday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2013. There are 357 days left in the year.
On Jan. 8, 1963, Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa,” on loan to the United States from the Louvre Museum in Paris, went on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, in attendance.
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In 1863, America's First Transcontinental Railroad had its beginnings as California Gov. Leland Stanford broke ground for the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento. (The transcontinental railroad was completed in Promontory, Utah, in May 1869.)
In 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss.