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January 9

January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining (357 in leap years).

Events

  • 1431 - Trial of Joan of Arc began in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.
  • 1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.
  • 1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London).
  • 1788 - Connecticut becomes the fifth state to join the United States.
  • 1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.
  • 1806 - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
  • 1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
  • 1857 - Fort Tejon earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.9
  • 1861 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War.
  • 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Fort Hindman
  • 1878 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy.
  • 1882 - Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York.
  • 1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • 1903 - Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia
  • 1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
  • 1912 - Marines invade Honduras.
  • 1916 - The Ottoman Empire prevailed in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops evacuated.
  • 1917 - Battle of Rafa
  • 1923 - Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight.
  • 1929 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).
  • 1937 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
  • 1945 - The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
  • 1951 - United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
  • 1956 - First "Dear Abby" column appears in newspapers.
  • 1960 - Construction of the Aswan Dam begins in Egypt.
  • 1964 - Several Panamanian youths put up the Panamanian flag, and are fired on from the Canal Zone, setting off four days of anti-imperialist insurrection around the country.
  • 1972 - RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire (Hong Kong harbor).
  • 1977 - Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders defeat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14.
  • 1984 - Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's Restaurants for the first time.
  • 1986 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
  • 1989 - The Sega Genesis is released in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California.
  • 1991 - The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
  • 1995 - Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
  • 1996 - Sun Microsystems announced the formation of JavaSoft.
  • 1997 - A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro. Airport killing 29.
  • 2002 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
  • 2005 - Elections scheduled to replace Yasser Arafat.

    Births

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