January 9
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January 9 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining after January 9 until the end of the year (357 in leap years).
[change] Events
- 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, were rounded up and burned to death.
- 1431 – Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
- 1693 - An earthquake in Sicily kills around 60,000 people.
- 1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
- 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
- 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1882 – Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York City.
- 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 Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
- 1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- 1945 – The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
- 1951 – The United Nations headquarters opens in New York City.
- 1954 - The temperature of -65.9 degrees Celsius, the coldest to be measured in Greenland, is recorded by a British expedition.
- 1960 - Construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt begins.
- 1964 – Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone. This causes fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
- 1968 – The only known snowfall occurs in Mexico City, additional snow falls on January 10 and 11.
- 1991 – The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
- 2005 – Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Mahmoud Abbas is elected.
- 2006 – The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
- 2006 – The population of Iceland officially reaches 300,000.
- 2011 – South Sudan holds a referendum on independence from Sudan.
- 2011 – Iran Air Flight 227 crashes, killing 77 people.
[change] Births
- 1475 – Crinitus, Italian humanist (d. 1507)
- 1554 – Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
- 1624 – Empress Meisho of Japan (d. 1697)
- 1835 – Iwasaki Yaturo, Japanese founder of Mitsubishi (d. 1885)
- 1854 – Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
- 1870 – Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
- 1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
- 1890 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and writer (d. 1935)
- 1898 – Gracie Fields, English performer (d. 1979)
- 1900 – Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
- 1901 – Ishman Bracey, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1970)
- 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer (d. 1986)
- 1909 – Anthony Mamo, 1st President of Malta (d. 2008)
- 1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1920 – Clive Dunn, British actor
- 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Ahmed Sekou Toure, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
- 1924 – Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
- 1929 – Heiner Mueller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
- 1929 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer (d. 2011)
- 1935 – Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1939 – Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
- 1944 – Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
- 1945 – Levon Ter-Petrossian, first President of Armenia
- 1948 – Cassie Gaines, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
- 1950 – Rio Reiser, German musician (d. 1996)
- 1953 – Morris Gleitzman, English writer
- 1955 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
- 1956 – Imelda Staunton, British actress
- 1958 – Mehmet Ali Agca, attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
- 1959 – Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan political activist
- 1961 – Al Jean, American television writer
- 1965 – Iain Dowie, British footballer and manager
- 1965 – Haddaway, Trinidadian singer
- 1965 – Joely Richardson, British actress
- 1967 – Dave Matthews, Australian singer and musician
- 1967 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentine footballer
- 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
- 1978 – AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1980 – Sergio Garcia, Spanish golfer
- 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
- 1982 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- 1987 – Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter
[change] Deaths
- 1514 – Anne, Queen of France (b. 1477)
- 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
- 1848 – Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
- 1858 – Anson Jones, last President of Texas (b. 1798)
- 1873 – Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
- 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
- 1878 – Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy (b. 1820)
- 1908 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
- 1923 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
- 1944 – Antanas Smetona, President of Lithuania (b. 1874)
- 1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1867)
- 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (b. 1891)
- 1995 – Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
- 1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Antonín Klimek, Czech historian (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Dave Dee, British musician (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Rene Herms, German athlete (b. 1982)
- 2010 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Peter Yates, British film director (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Malam Bacai Sanha, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)
