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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 7.91861 - 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 - 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 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 .2006 - Planned launch date of New Horizons
Births 1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623 )1574 - Christoph Buel, composer 1589 - Ivan Gundulic , Croatian poet (d. 1638 )1620 - Johann Weichmann, composer 1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis , Dutch philologist (d. 1766 )1695 - John E Loovens, lawyer 1699 - Robert J Pothier, French lawyer 1728 - Thomas Warton , poet laureate of England (d. 1790 )1748 - Stefan Paluselli, composer 1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom , Swedish poet1811 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett , English writer (d. 1856 )1815 - William Jackson, composer 1820 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer 1829 - Thomas William Robertson , English playwright (d. 1871 )1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer 1839 - John Knowles Paine, composer1843 - Christiaan A Ulder, composer1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer1851 - Luis Coloma, Spanish Jesuit writer, theologian1854 - Jennie Jerome , American society beauty (d. 1921)1856 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest, poet (d. 1912 )1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters 1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar , church historian1864 - Vladimir Steklov , Russian mathematician (d. 1926 )1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter, etcher1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch opera singer1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen , Danish chemist (d. 1939)1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Ukrainian Jewish poet, translator (d. 1934 )1875 - Gertrude Whitney , American sculptor (d. 1942 )1876 - Hans Bethge, writer1879 - John Broadus Watson , American behaviorist psychologist (d. 1958)1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie , British poet, critic (d. 1938 )1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian , writer1890 - Karel Čapek , Czech writer (d. 1938 )1890 - Kurt Tucholsky , German journalist, writer, satirist, social critic, (d. 1935 )1891 - August Gailit, Estonian , writer1892 - Eva Bowring , American politician (d. 1985)1894 - Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter, graphic artist1897 - Luis Gianneo, composer1897 - Karl Löwith , German philosopher , (d. 1973 )1898 - Gracie Fields , English music hall /vaudeville performer, (d. 1979 )1898 - Vilma Banky, Hungarian actress1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer1901 - Chic Young , cartoonist (d. 1973 )1902 - Rudolph Bing , opera manager (d. 1997 )1902 - Josemaría Escrivá , Spanish religious author (d. 1975)1904 - George Balanchine , Russian dancer, choreographer, ballet producer (d. 1983 ) (O.S.) 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir , French author (d. 1986 )1911 - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health1911 - Stafford William Somerfield, newspaper editor1912 - Ralph Tubbs , British architect1913 - Richard Nixon , 37th President of the United States (d. 1994 )1913 - Lavad 'Dr Hepcat' Durst, musician1913 - Peter John Norton, diplomat, artist1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke , jazz drummer, composer1914 ?- Gypsy Rose Lee , American burlesque actress (d. 1970 )1915 - Fernando Lamas , Argentine actor (d. 1982 )1915 - Les Paul , American guitarist , inventor1916 - Vic Mizzy , American orchestra leader1917 - Herbert Lom, Czech actor1920 - Clive Dunn , British actor1921 - Seymour Barab, composer1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré , President of Guinea (d. 1984 )1922 - Har Gobind Khorana , Indian biochemist1924 - Julián B Coco, guitarist , bassist 1925 - Lee Van Cleef , American actor (d. 1989 )1925 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist1928 - Judith Krantz , American author1928 - Domenico Modugno , Italian , singer, songwriter (d. 1994 )1929 - Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995 )1929 - Dorothea Puente , American serial killer1931 - Algis Budrys , American science fiction author1931 - Geoffrey Wragg, British reorganizer1932 - Robert P. Casey , American politician (d. 2000 )1933 - Sonia Garmers, author1934 - Bart Starr , American football star1935 - Bob Denver , American actor1935 - Dick Enberg , American sportscaster1935 - Kenneth 'Buddy' Scott, blues guitarist , singer1936 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, writer 1937 - K Schlesinger, writer1938 - Aad Kosto, theologian, actor, assistant Secretary of Justice of the Netherlands 1940 - Jimmy Boyd , American actor, singer1940 - Barbara Buczek , Polish composer (d. 1993 )1940 - Ruth Dreifuss , Swiss politician1941 - Joan Baez , American folk music singer, activist1941 - Susannah York , British actress1942 - K Callan, American actress1943 - Dick Yount, rock musician 1943 - Kenneth Kelley, American singer1943 - Rob Hoeke, pianist, singer1944 - Scott Engel, singer1944 - Jimmy Page , English rock musician , guitarist (Led Zeppelin )1945 - Frank J. Biondi Jr., president of HBO1945 - Harun Farocki, actor, director1946 - Leo Gullotta, actor1948 - Paul King, musician (Blue Öyster Cult )1950 - David Johansen American singer1950 - Rio Reiser , German singer (d. 1996 ) 1951 - Crystal Gayle , American country music singer1951 - Rosalyn Kind, singer 1952 - Hugh Bayley , British politician1952 - Eveline L Herfkens, Dutch MP (PvdA ) 1954 - Lance Hoppens, musician1955 - J. K. Simmons , American actor1956 - Kimberly Beck , American actress1956 - David Smith , cricket player 1958 - Mehmet Ali Agca , Turkish militant, attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II1959 - Rigoberta Menchú , Guatemalan writer1959 - Cristi Minculescu , Romanian musician 1963 - Michael Everson , American expert in writing systems and Unicode 1963 _ Eric Erlandson, American musician (Hole) 1965 - Carin Garbarra, football player1965 - Cindy Brooks, rower 1965 - Joely Richardson , English actress 1967 - Dave Matthews , South African singer, musician1967 - Steve Harwell, American musician (Smash Mouth ) 1968 - Jimmy Adams , West Indian cricket player1970 - Andrew Leipus , Australian physiotherapist1974 - Craig Wishart, cricketer 1978 - Chad Johnson , American football player1978 - AJ McLean , singer ("Backstreet Boys ") 1980 - Sergio García , Spanish golfer
Deaths 1283 - Wen Tianxiang , Chinese patriot, executed in Beijing (b. 1236 )1499 - Johann Cicero , elector of Brandenburg 1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany and consort queen of France1562 - Amago Haruhisa , Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514 )1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon , French naval officer (b. 1510 )1677 - Aernout van der Neer , Dutch cartoonist , landscape painter (b. 1603 )1679 - Werner Fabricius, composer1766 - Thomas Birch , British historian (b. 1705 )1798 - Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea, Spanish officer1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian scientist (b. 1718 )1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet , French general (b. 1762 )1828 - Pieter Hoen, Dutch journalist, patriot1848 - Caroline Herschel , German-born astronomer (b. 1750 )1849 - Jan Kops, agriculturist, vicar1853 - Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet, interpreter1854 - Filippo Traetta, composer1863 - Ferdinand Huber, composer1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808 )1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe , American abolitionist (b. 1801 )1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820 )1879 - Don Joaquin BF Espartero, Field Marshal, viceroy of Navarre 1886 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer1893 - Mohara, slave trader deluxe1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of the American System of Watch Manufacturing 1901 - Richard Copley Christie , English scholar (b. 1830 )1902 - Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, lawyer, Interior Minister of Belgium 1904 - Alfred Richard, cricketer 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden , Yiddish stage performer1908 - Wilhelm Busch , German painter (b. 1832 )1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer1918 - Émile Reynaud , French scientist (b. 1844 )1923 - Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand writer (b. 1888 )1927 - Houston S Chamberlain, race theorist1930 - Edward W Buck, editor (Ladies Home Journal )1931 - Claude Anet, French writer1936 - John Gilbert , American actor (b. 1899 )1939 - Johann Strauss III , Austrian conductor1941 - Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter1943 - Robin G. Collingwood, English philosopher1946 - Countee Cullen , American poet1947 - Karl Mannheim , German sociologist (b. 1893 )1947 - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor1949 - Amilcare Zanella, composer1953 - Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken)1957 - Mary Carr Moore, composer1958 - Paul Fechter, German writer, historian1959 - Paul Malengreau, composer1961 - Emily Green Balch, American author, Nobel laureate1962 - LeRoy B Shield, pianist, composer1966 - Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer1968 - Louis-François-Marie Aubert, composer1969 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer1971 - Elmer Flick , American baseball player (b. 1876 )1972 - Ted Shawn , American dancer (b. 1891 )1975 - John Slater, actor1975 - Pierre Fresnay, actor1977 - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer1978 - Eddie Gilbert, cricketer 1979 - Avery Claflin, composer1979 - Sara Carter , American singer, guitarist (b. 1898 )1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer1984 - Wolfgang Staudte , German director (b. 1906 )1985 - Don Brennan, cricketer 1985 - Robert Mayer , British businessman, philantropist (b. 1879 )1987 - Marion Hutton , American singer1987 - Arthur Lake , American actor 1992 - Steve Brodie, actor1992 - William JF Naughton, playwright1993 - Svetoslav Roerich , Russian painter (b. 1904 )1994 - Silas Hogan, blues singer, guitarist ,1994 - Johnny Temple , American Major League Baseball second baseman (b. 1927 )1995 - Peter Cook , British actor. satirist, writer, comedian (b. 1937 )1995 - Souphanouvong , President of Laos (b. 1909 )1996 - Mary Nadia Wadia, actress1996 - Kurt Schmucker, Minister of Economy of Germany 1996 - Michael Lynn Synar, politician1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland 1997 _ Jesse White, actor 1997 - Junaidu ibn Buhari, scholar 1998 - Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist (1918 )2000 - Nigel Tranter , Scottish historian and author (b. 1909 )2003 - Wilfried Hasselmann, German politician 2003 - Will McDonough , sports journalist 2005 - Koji Hashimoto , Japanese film director (b. 1936
Holidays and observances January 8 - January 10 - December 9 - February 9 -- listing of all days
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