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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 - Marines invade 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, British 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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January 9th (6046 words)
In January 1666, the Earl of Orrery invited him to England to attempt the cure of Lady Conway of a headache; he did not succeed; but during his residence of three or four weeks at Ragley, Lord Conway's seat in Warwickshire, cured, as he states, many persons, while others received benefit. He touched the man, and invested him with a narrow riband, to which a small piece of silver was pendant, according to the office appointed by the Church for that solemnity. There I saw him without any remains of his complaint.' It did not occur to the learned historian that these facts might all be true, as probably they were, and yet might form no proof that an unanointed but hereditarily rightful king had cured the evil.
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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 ). January 8 - January 10 - December 9 - February 9 — listing of all days
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