January 9

Categories: Days

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

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 1554 to 1899
- 2.2 1900 to 1999
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

1431 - The trial of Joan of Arc begins 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.
1880 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
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, becomes 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 prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are 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.
1962 - The NFL prohibits grabbing face masks.
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 announces the formation of JavaSoft.
1997 - A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro Airport, killing 29.
1999 - After nearly 16 years of operation, the Horizons pavilion at Walt Disney World's Epcot closes permanently. It is razed more than a year later to make way for the new Mission: SPACE attraction.
2002 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
2005 - Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat.

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Births

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1554 to 1899

1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)
1589 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
1624 - Empress Meisho of Japan (d. 1696)
1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
1728 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (b. 1790)
1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
1829 - Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty (d. 1921)
1856 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
1870 - Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Ukrainian poet and translator (d. 1934)
1875 - Gertrude Whitney, American sculptor (d. 1942)
1879 - John Broadus Watson, American behaviorist psychologist (d. 1958)
1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, writer, satirist, and social critic (d. 1935)
1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
1897 - Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
1898 - Vilma Banky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
1898 - Gracie Fields, English vaudeville performer (d. 1979)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian composer (d. 1977)

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1900 to 1999

1901 - Chic Young, cartoonist (d. 1973)
1902 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
1902 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish religious author (d. 1975)
1904 (O. S.)- George Balanchine, Russian dancer, choreographer, and ballet producer (d. 1983)
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
1912 - Ralph Tubbs, British architect
1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer
1915 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist and inventor
1916 - Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader
1916 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician and World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
1917 - Herbert Lom, Czech actor
1920 - Clive Dunn, British actor
1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist
1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
1928 - Judith Krantz, American author
1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter
1929 - Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1931 - Algis Budrys, American author
1932 - Robert P. Casey, American politician (d. 2000)
1934 - Bart Starr, American football player
1935 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
1940 - Jimmy Boyd, American actor, singer
1940 - Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
1940 Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
1941 - Joan Baez, American singer and activist
1942 - K Callan, American actress
1942 - Susannah York, British actress
1944 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
1950 - David Johansen American singer
1950 - Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
1951 - Crystal Gayle, American singer
1952 - Hugh Bayley, British politician
1955 - J. K. Simmons, American actor
1956 - Kimberly Beck, American actress
1956 - Imelda Staunton, British actress
1958 - Mehmet Ali Agca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
1959 - Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1959 - Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
1963 - Michael Everson, American expert in writing systems and Unicode
1965 - Eric Erlandson, American musician (Hole)
1965 - Joely Richardson, British actress
1967 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
1967 - Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
1968 - Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer
1975 - Angela Bettis, American actress
1978 - Chad Johnson, American football player
1978 - AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1980 - Sergio García, Spanish golfer

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Deaths

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1283 to 1899

1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (executed) (b. 1236)
1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch cartoonist and painter (b. 1603)
1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)

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1900 to 1999

1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867)
1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
1979 - Sara Carter, American singer, guitarist (b. 1898)
1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philantropist (b. 1879)
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
1987 - Arthur Lake (actor), American actor (b. 1905)
1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
1993 - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1904)
1994 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
1995 - Peter Cook, British actor. satirist, writer, and comedian (b. 1937)
1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1918)

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2000 onwards

2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)

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Holidays and observances

1788 - Ratification Day in Connecticut
1822 - "I Will Stay" Day, when the portuguese prince Pedro decided to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portugal king João VI, starting the brazilian independence process.
1964 - Memorial day of Patriotic Panamanians for the Panama Canal (Martyrs' Day/Dia de los Martires)
Roman Catholic - Feast of Saint Adrian
Eastern Orthodox - Feast of Saint Theophan the Recluse
Philippines - Feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo district, Manila.