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 7.9
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.

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 poet
• 1811 - 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 , composer
• 1843 - Christiaan A Ulder , composer
• 1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani , composer
• 1851 - Luis Coloma , Spanish Jesuit writer, theologian
• 1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty (d. 1921)
• 1856 - Anton Aškerc , Slovenian priest, poet (d. 1912)
• 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese , poet
• 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac , composer
• 1857 - Henry B. Fuller , writer
• 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt , women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters
• 1859 - Frederik Pijper , Dutch vicar, church historian
• 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
• 1866 - Albert Baertsoen , Flemish painter, etcher
• 1867 - Jacques Urlus , Dutch opera singer
• 1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
• 1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge (d. 1938)
• 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Ukrainian Jewish poet, translator (d. 1934)
• 1875 - Gertrude Whitney, American sculptor (d. 1942)
• 1876 - Hans Bethge , writer
• 1879 - John Broadus Watson, American behaviorist psychologist (d. 1958)
• 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet, critic (d. 1938)
• 1881 - Giovanni Papini , Italian, writer
• 1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
• 1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, writer, satirist, social critic, (d. 1935)
• 1891 - August Gailit , Estonian, writer
• 1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
• 1894 - Henryk Stazewski , Polish abstract painter, graphic artist
• 1897 - Luis Gianneo , composer
• 1897 - Karl Löwith, German philosopher, (d. 1973)
• 1898 - Gracie Fields, English music hall/vaudeville performer, (d. 1979)
• 1898 - Vilma Banky, Hungarian actress
• 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
• 1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner , composer
• 1901 - 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 health
• 1911 - Stafford William Somerfield , British newspaper editor
• 1912 - Ralph Tubbs, British architect
• 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
• 1913 - Lavad 'Dr Hepcat' Durst , musician
• 1913 - Peter John Norton , diplomat, artist
• 1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke, jazz drummer, composer
• 1914?- Gypsy Rose Lee, American burlesque actress (d. 1970)
• 1915 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
• 1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist, inventor
• 1916 - Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader
• 1917 - Herbert Lom, Czech actor
• 1920 - Clive Dunn, British actor
• 1921 - Seymour Barab , composer
• 1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
• 1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist
• 1924 - Julián B Coco , guitarist, bassist
• 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1925 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah , novelist
• 1928 - Judith Krantz, American author
• 1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer/songwriter
• 1929 - Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
• 1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
• 1931 - Algis Budrys, American science fiction author
• 1931 - Geoffrey Wragg , British reorganizer
• 1932 - Robert P. Casey, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1933 - Sonia Garmers , author
• 1934 - Bart Starr, American football star
• 1935 - Bob Denver, American actor
• 1935 - Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
• 1935 - Kenneth 'Buddy' Scott , blues guitarist, singer
• 1936 - Peter Fletcher , music teacher
• 1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, writer
• 1937 - K Schlesinger , writer
• 1938 - Aad Kosto , theologian, actor, assistant Secretary of Justice of the Netherlands
• 1940 - Jimmy Boyd, American actor, singer
• 1940 - Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
• 1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
• 1941 - Joan Baez, American folk music singer, activist
• 1941 - Susannah York, British actress
• 1942 - K Callan, American actress
• 1943 - Dick Yount , rock musician
• 1943 - Kenneth Kelley , American singer
• 1943 - Rob Hoeke , pianist, singer
• 1944 - Scott Engel , singer
• 1944 - Jimmy Page, English rock musician, guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
• 1945 - Frank J. Biondi Jr. , president of HBO
• 1945 - Harun Farocki , actor, director
• 1946 - Leo Gullotta , actor
• 1948 - Paul King, musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
• 1950 - David Johansen American singer
• 1950 - Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
• 1951 - Crystal Gayle, American country music singer
• 1951 - Rosalyn Kind , singer
• 1952 - Hugh Bayley, British politician
• 1952 - Eveline L Herfkens , Dutch MP (PvdA)
• 1954 - Lance Hoppens , musician
• 1955 - J. K. Simmons, American actor
• 1956 - Kimberly Beck, American actress
• 1956 - David Smith, cricket player
• 1958 - Mehmet Ali Agca, Turkish militant, attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
• 1959 - Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan writer
• 1959 - Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
• 1963 - Michael Everson, American expert in writing systems and Unicode
• 1963 - Eric Erlandson, American musician (Hole)
• 1965 - Carin Garbarra , football player
• 1965 - Cindy Brooks , rower
• 1965 - Joely Richardson, English actress
• 1967 - Dave Matthews, South African singer, musician
• 1967 - Steve Harwell , American musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1968 - Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricket player
• 1970 - Andrew Leipus, Australian physiotherapist
• 1974 - Craig Wishart , cricketer
• 1978 - Chad Johnson, American football player
• 1978 - 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, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
• 1562 - 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 , composer
• 1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
• 1798 - Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea , Spanish officer
• 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
• 1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
• 1828 - Pieter Hoen , Dutch journalist, patriot
• 1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
• 1849 - Jan Kops , agriculturist, vicar
• 1853 - Juan N Gallego , Spanish poet, interpreter
• 1854 - Filippo Traetta , composer
• 1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
• 1863 - Ferdinand Huber , composer
• 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)
• 1879 - Don Joaquin BF Espartero , Field Marshal, viceroy of Navarre
• 1886 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer , composer
• 1893 - Mohara , slave trader deluxe
• 1895 - 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 performer
• 1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
• 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones , composer
• 1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
• 1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
• 1927 - Houston S Chamberlain , race theorist
• 1930 - Edward W Buck , editor (Ladies Home Journal)
• 1931 - Claude Anet , French writer
• 1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor
• 1941 - Ko Boezeman , Dutch resistance fighter
• 1943 - Robin G. Collingwood , English philosopher
• 1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet
• 1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
• 1947 - Lambertus Zijl , sculptor
• 1949 - Amilcare Zanella , composer
• 1953 - Hans Aanrud , Norwegian author (Storken)
• 1957 - Mary Carr Moore , composer
• 1958 - Paul Fechter , German writer, historian
• 1959 - Paul Malengreau , composer
• 1961 - Emily Green Balch , American author, Nobel laureate
• 1962 - LeRoy B Shield , pianist, composer
• 1966 - Haro Levoni Step'anyan , composer
• 1968 - Louis-François-Marie Aubert , composer
• 1969 - Ladislav Vycpalek , composer
• 1971 - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
• 1975 - John Slater , actor
• 1975 - Pierre Fresnay, actor
• 1977 - Alexey Kozlovsky , composer
• 1978 - Eddie Gilbert , cricketer
• 1979 - Avery Claflin , composer
• 1979 - Sara Carter, American singer, guitarist (b. 1898)
• 1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer
• 1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
• 1985 - Don Brennan , cricketer
• 1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman, philantropist (b. 1879)
• 1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer
• 1987 - Arthur Lake (actor), American actor
• 1992 - Steve Brodie , actor
• 1992 - William JF Naughton , playwright
• 1993 - 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 , actress
• 1996 - Kurt Schmucker , Minister of Economy of Germany
• 1996 - Michael Lynn Synar , politician
• 1997 - 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 - Fritz Aigner , Austrian painter
• 2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, sound effects creator
• 2005 - Bernard Goodall , businessman and former Reading F.C. footballer
• 2005 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (b. 1936

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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