Poll without page-refresh
Article on other languages:
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 ).
Events
475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople .1349 - The Jewish population of Basel , Switzerland , believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague , were rounded up and incinerated.1431 - Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France , the seat of the English occupation government.1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London .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.1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon .1806 - Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral .1816 - Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.1822 - The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI , starting the Brazilian independence process.1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.1857 - The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.1858 - Anson Jones , the last President of the Republic of Texas , commits suicide.1861 - American Civil War : The "Star of the West " incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina . It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War ".1861 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman occurs in Arkansas .1878 - Umberto I becomes King of Italy .1880 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.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 Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday , setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905 .1916 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale , as the last British troops are evacuated.1917 - World War I : the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine .1923 - Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.1941 - First flight of the Avro Lancaster .1941 - World War II : The Greek Triton (S.112) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto .
1945 - The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines .1947 - Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia , is last seen alive.1951 - The United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.1964 - Martyrs' Day : Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone , leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.1968 - The only known snowfall in Mexico City occurs; additional snow falls on January 10 and 11 .1972 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth Victoria Harbour , Hong Kong .1986 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid , Kodak must give up its instant camera business.1991 - The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.1997 - A Comair Embraer EMB 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro Airport , killing 29 people.2001 - Shenzhou 2 , an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, is launched.2001 - Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco , for organizing and playing digital music and videos. Now widely used by Windows and Mac users.2005 - The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement , commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya .2005 - Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization . He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh .
2007 - Apple Inc CEO , Steve Jobs announces the iPhone .
Births
1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623 )1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy , French soldier (d. 1621 )1589 - Ivan Gundulic , Croatian poet (d. 1638 )1624 - Empress Meishō (d. 1696 )1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis , Dutch philologist (d. 1766 )1728 - Thomas Warton , English poet (d. 1790 )1745 - Caleb Strong , 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819 )1773 - Cassandra Austen , English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845 )1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom , Swedish poet (d. 1855 )1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett , English writer (d. 1856 )1819 - James Francis , Premier of Victoria (d. 1884 )1823 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch , German surgeon (d. 1908 )1829 - Thomas William Robertson , English playwright (d. 1871 )1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit , German explorer (d. 1857 )
1832 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand , journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900 )1839 - John Knowles Paine , U.S. composer (d. 1906 )1848 - Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926 )1849 - John Hartley , English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935 )1854 - Jennie Jerome , American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921 )1856 - Anton Aškerc , Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912 )1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt , American suffragist leader (d. 1947 )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 , Hebrew poet (d. 1934 )1875 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , American socialite (d. 1942 )1879 - John Broadus Watson , American psychologist (d. 1958 )1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie , British poet and critic (d. 1938 )1881 - Edouard Beaupré , horse lifter (d. 1904)
1881 - Giovanni Papini , Italian writer (d. 1956 )
1890 - Karel Čapek , Czech writer (d. 1938 )1890 - Kurt Tucholsky , German journalist (d. 1935 )
1892 - Eva Bowring , American politician (d. 1985 )1896 - Warwick Braithwaite , New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971 )1897 - Karl Löwith , German philosopher (d. 1973 )1898 - Vilma Bánky , Hungarian actress (d. 1991 )1898 - Gracie Fields , English vaudeville performer (d. 1979 )
1898 - Wally Baker , American supercentenarian
1900 - Richard Halliburton , American adventurer (presumed dead 1939 )1900 - Maria of Romania , Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961 )
1901 - Chic Young , American cartoonist (d. 1973 )1902 - Rudolph Bing , Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997 )1902 - Saint Josemaría Escrivá , Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975 )
1903 - Hem Vejakorn , Thai illustrator (d. 1969 )1908 - Simone de Beauvoir , French author (d. 1986 )1909 - Herva Nelli , Italian-born soprano (d. 1994 )1912 - Ralph Tubbs , British architect (d. 1996 )1913 - Richard Nixon , 37th President of the United States (d. 1994 )1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee (or 1911), American burlesque entertainer (d. 1970 )1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke , American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985 )
1915 - Anita Louise , U.S. actress (d. 1970 )1915 - Fernando Lamas , Argentine actor (d. 1982 )
1916 - Vic Mizzy , American orchestra leader1916 - Peter Twinn , English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004 )
1920 - Chan Canasta , Polish-British magician (d. 1999 )1920 - Clive Dunn , British actor
1920 - Hakim Mohammed Said , Pakistani scholar
1921 - Lister Sinclair , Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006 )1922 - Har Gobind Khorana , Nobel laureate 1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré , President of Guinea (d. 1984 )
1924 - Sergei Parajanov , Armenian film director (d. 1990 )1925 - Lee Van Cleef , American actor (d. 1989 )1926 - Giannis Christou , Greek composer (d. 1970 )1926 - Jean-Pierre Côté , Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002 )
1928 - Judith Krantz , American author1928 - Domenico Modugno , Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994 )
1929 - Brian Friel , Irish dramatist1929 - Heiner Muller , German dramatist (d. 1995 )
1929 - Dorothea Puente , American serial killer
1931 - Algis Budrys , American author1933 - Robert Garcia , American politician1933 - Wilbur Smith , Zambian-British novelist
1934 - Bart Starr , American football player1935 - Bob Denver , American actor (d. 2005 )1935 - Dick Enberg , American sportscaster
1935 - Earl G. Graves, Sr. , African-American Publisher
1935 - Brian Harradine , Australian independent Senator
1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons , American writer1940 - Jimmy Boyd , American actor and singer1940 - Barbara Buczek , Polish composer (d. 1993 )
1940 - Al Downing , American singer (d. 2005 )
1940 - Ruth Dreifuss , Swiss politician
1941 - Joan Baez , American singer and activist1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt , Quebec politician
1942 - K Callan , American actress1942 - Lee Kun-hee , Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
1942 - Susannah York , British actress
1943 - Robert Drewe , Australian author1943 - Elmer MacFadyen , Canadian politician (d. 2007 )
1943 - Freddie Starr , English comedian and singer
1943 - Scott Walker , American singer
1944 - Ian Hornak , American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (d. 2002 )1944 - Jimmy Page , British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin )
1945 - John Doman , American actor1947 - Ronnie Landfield , American artist1948 - Bill Cowsill , American singer (The Cowsills ) (d. 2006 )1948 - Cassie Gaines Backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd ) (d. 1977 )
1950 - David Johansen American singer1950 - Rio Reiser , German singer (d. 1996 )
1951 - M.L. Carr , basketball player and coach1951 - Crystal Gayle , American singer
1952 - Hugh Bayley , British politician1953 - Morris Gleitzman , British-Australian children's author1955 - Michiko Kakutani , American literary critic1955 - J. K. Simmons , American actor
1956 - Kimberly Beck , American actress1956 - Imelda Staunton , British actress
1956 - Mike Walczewski , American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden
1957 - Bibie , Ghanaian singer1957 - Phil Lewis , lead singer of L.A. Guns
1958 - Mehmet Ali Ağca , Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II 1958 - Stephen Neale , British philosopher
1959 - Mark Martin , American race car driver1959 - Rigoberta Menchú , Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1959 - Cristi Minculescu , Romanian musician
1959 - Otis Nixon , American baseball player
1961 - Oliver Goldstick , American screenwriter1963 - Michael Everson , expert in writing systems and Unicode 1965 - Darren Bennett , Australian-born American football player1965 - Muggsy Bogues , American basketball player
1965 - Iain Dowie , English football manager
1965 - Eric Erlandson , American musician
1965 - Joely Richardson , British actress
1967 - Carl Bell , American musician1967 - Claudio Caniggia , Argentinian footballer
1967 - Steven Harwell , American singer and musician (Smash Mouth )
1967 - Dave Matthews , South African singer and musician
1968 - Jimmy Adams , West Indian cricketer1968 - Joey Lauren Adams , American actress
1968 - Al Schnier , American rock guitarist (moe. )
1970 - Lara Fabian , Belgian singer1970 - Alex Staropoli , Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire )
1971 - Daniel Dumile , American hip hop artist1971 - Hal Niedzviecki , Canadian author
1971 - Scott Thornton , Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Yusuke Naora , Japanese game art director
1972 - Sarah Beeny , British TV personality1972 - Angie Martinez , American radio and television personality
1972 - Jay Powell , baseball player
1973 - Angela Bettis , American actress1974 - Farhan Akhtar , Indian Bollywood Director, Actor, Producer, Singer.1975 - Kiko Calero , Puerto Rican baseball player1975 - Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers , former wife of Eminem
1976 - Radek Bonk , Czech ice hockey player1976 - Todd Grisham , American professional wrestling interviewer
1977 - Beth Troutman , American production assistant1978 - Mathieu Garon , Canadian ice hockey player1978 - Gennaro Gattuso , Italian footballer
1978 - Chad Ocho Cinco , American football player
1978 - AJ McLean , American singer (Backstreet Boys )
1978 - Maggie Rizer , American model and AIDS activist
1979 - Tomiko Van , Japanese singer1980 - Sergio García , Spanish golfer1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek , Polish footballer1982 - Kate Middleton , girlfriend of Prince William of Wales 1987 - Sam Bird , English racing driver1987 - Paolo Nutini , Scottish singer/songwriter
1987 - Pablo Santos , Mexican actor (d. 2006 )
1987 - Lucas Pezzini Leiva , Brazilian and Liverpool Footballer
1989 - Michaella Krajicek , Dutch tennis player
Deaths
1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état .1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi , ruler of Minorca (b. 1204 )1283 - Wen Tianxiang , Prime Minister of China (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 warlord (b. 1514 )1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon , French naval officer (b. 1510 )1598 - Jasper Heywood , English translator (b. 1553 )1677 - Aernout van der Neer , Dutch painter (b. 1603 )1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle , French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657 )1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel , French mathematician (b. 1688 )
1766 - Thomas Birch , British historian (b. 1705 )1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian scientist (b. 1718 )1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet , French general (b. 1762 )1805 - Noble Wimberly Jones , American Continental Congressman (b. 1723 )1843 - William Hedley , British industrial engineer (b. 1773 )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 )1877 - Alexander Brullov , Russia painter (b. 1799 )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 - Wilhelm Busch , German painter (b. 1832 )1908 - Abraham Goldfaden , Russian-born actor (b. 1840 )
1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones , American composer (b. 1853 )1911 - Edvard Rusjan , Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886 )
1918 - Émile Reynaud , French scientist (b. 1844 )1923 - Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand writer (b. 1888 )1927 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain , British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855 )1931 - Wayne Munn , wrestler (b. 1896 )1936 - John Gilbert , American actor (b. 1899 )1939 - Johann Strauss III , Austrian conductor (b. 1866 )1945 - Jüri Uluots , Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890 )1946 - Countee Cullen , American poet (b. 1903 )1946 - Dimitrios Golemis , Greek athlete (b. 1874 )
1947 - Karl Mannheim , German sociologist (b. 1893 )1960 - Elsie J. Oxenham , British children's author (b. 1880 )1961 - Emily Greene Balch , American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867 )1971 - Giannis Christou , Greek composer (b. 1926 )1971 - Elmer Flick , baseball player (b. 1876 )
1972 - Ted Shawn , American dancer (b. 1891 )1975 - Pierre Fresnay , French actor (b. 1897 )1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov , Russian mathematician (b. 1901 )
1979 - Pier Luigi Nervi , Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891 )1981 - Kazimierz Serocki , Polish composer (b. 1922 )1984 - Wolfgang Staudte , German director (b. 1906 )1985 - Robert Mayer , British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879 )1987 - Marion Hutton , American singer (b. 1919 )1987 - Arthur Lake , American actor (b. 1905 )
1989 - Bill Terry , baseball player (b. 1898 )1990 - Sir Edward McTiernan , Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892 )1990 - Spud Chandler , baseball player (b. 1907 )
1992 - Steve Brodie , American actor (b. 1919 )1992 - Bill Naughton , British playwright (b. 1910 )
1993 - Sir Paul Hasluck , Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905 )1994 - Johnny Temple , baseball player (b. 1927 )1995 - Peter Cook , British actor and comedian (b. 1937 )1995 - Souphanouvong , President of Laos (b. 1909 )
1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski , Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909 )1997 - Jesse White , American actor (b. 1917 )
1998 - Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918 )1998 - Charito Solis , Filipino actress (b. 1935)
2000 - Ted Jones , Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)2000 - Nigel Tranter , Scottish historian and author (b. 1909 )
2001 - Maurice Prather , American photographer (b. 1926 )2003 - Will McDonough , American sports journalist (b. 1935 )2004 - Norberto Bobbio , Italian philosopher (b. 1909 )2005 - Gonzalo Gavira , Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925 )2006 - Andy Caldecott , Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964 )2006 - Mikk Mikiver , Estonian actor, director (b. 1937 )
2007 - Elmer Symons , South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977 )2008 - Johnny Grant , American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923 )2008 - William Quinn , Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950 )
2008 - Mehran Ghassemi , Iranian journalist (b. 1977 )
2008 - Sir John Harvey-Jones , chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b.1924 ).
Holidays and observances
External links
