This Day, That Year – January 8

Elvis Presley was an American singer and actor born on this day in 1935. Dubbed the “King of Rock and Roll”, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century.

Did you know that:

• The chrome tanning process for leather was patented by Augustus Schultz on this day in 1884
• Walther Bothe was a German nuclear physicist born on this day in 1891
• Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author born on this day in 1942