January 8, 1909 (Friday)
- The U.S. House of Representatives accepted, 212-35, a committee report condemning outgoing President Theodore Roosevelt, in effect voting to censure him. The same day, the U.S. Senate voted to direct its Judiciary Committee to investigate wrongdoing by the President during the Panic of 1907. Roosevelt had, on December 8, 1908, included in his annual message to Congress the statement that Congress opposed the expansion of the Secret Service because there were "criminals in the legislative branch".
- Born: Willy Millowitsch, German actor and director, in Cologne (d. 1999)
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