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 - 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.
• 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.

Births

• 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 - Gracie Fields, English vaudeville performer (d. 1979)
• 1898 - Vilma Banky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
• 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian composer (d. 1977)
• 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 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
• 1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist
• 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
• 1941 - Susannah York, British actress
• 1942 - K Callan, American 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
• 1963 - 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

Deaths

• 1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese patriot (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)
• 1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
• 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
• 1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
• 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 (1918)
• 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)

Holidays and observances

• 1788 - Ratification Day in Connecticut
• 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.

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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