January 9
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January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 2006 - The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
[change] Births
- 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
- 1901 - Ishman Bracey, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1970)
- 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French writer (d. 1986)
- 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1924 - Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
- 1935 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1941 - Joan Baez, American singer and activist
- 1945 - Levon Ter-Petrossian, first President of Armenia
- 1953 - Morris Gleitzman, English writer
- 1961 - Al Jean, American television writer
- 1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1514 - Anne, Queen of France (b. 1477)
- 1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
- 1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1867)
- 2005 - Antonín Klimek Czech historian (b. 1927)
