January 9

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 9. From 1900 until now. January 9 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Catherine Duchess of Cambridge (1982), Joan Baez (1941) and Jimmy Page (1944). Several movies were released around January 9 over the years, such as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 directed by Ernst Lubitsch and His Girl Friday in 1940 directed by Howard Hawks.
But much more happened on January 9 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Balloon Ascension Day
Philippines - Feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo district, Manila.
1788 - Ratification Day in Connecticut.
1822 - "I Will Stay" Day, when the Portuguese prince Pedro decided to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portugal king Jopo VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
1964 - Memorial day of Patriotic Panamanians for the Panama Canal (Martyrs' Day/Dia de los Martires).
Eastern Orthodox - Feast of Saint Theophan the Recluse.
Roman Catholic - Feast of Saint Adrian
Stepfather's Day
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Events

2019 Remnants of a Dassault Mirage 2000D fighter jet are found in Jura, France, after the aircraft with two pilots onboard disappeared from radar. (France Info)
2018 Steve Bannon steps down as executive chairman of Breitbart News amid a dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump over comments he made about the Trump family in Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury. (BBC)
2017 January 2017 Jerusalem vehicular attack: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames the Islamic State for the attack that killed four soldiers and injured 15 others in East Jerusalem. (CNN)
2016 Terrorism in Egypt: Two police officers are shot dead by gunmen near the Giza pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo. (The Independent)
2015 The two suspect brothers take a hostage at a sign printing company, Création Tendance Découverte, in the French town of Dammartin-en-Goële. (AAP via SBS): The standoff ends with the two brothers dead and the hostage released. (CNBC) (BBC) (CNN)
2014 Syrian Civil War:: A car bomb kills 18 people, including women and children, in Syria's central Hama province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights organization. (CNN) (Ynet News)Islamic extremist groups in Syria with ties to al-Qaeda try to identify, recruit and train Americans and other Westerners who have traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home. (NYT)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Forty-eight Iranians who were kidnapped by Free Syrian Army rebels in the capital Damascus in August 2012 are released in exchange for 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government. (BBC)
2012 Insurgency in the North Caucasus: Clashes occur between the Russian forces and Islamist militants in the Vedensky District, Chechnya, with reportedly 8 killed and 16 wounded. (RIA)
2011 US Mint Director Edmund Moy resigns.
2010 A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes offshore near Eureka, California, with reports of damage and local power outages. (CNN)
2009 Rob Gauntlett, the youngest Briton to have climbed Mount Everest died whilst climbing in the French Alps
2008 70-car pileup along Interstate 4 in Florida, USA, due to fog and smoke. Five deaths.
2007 U.S. planes conduct air strikes in Somalia against suspected terrorists.
2006 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since June 7, 2001, closing at 11,011.90.
2005 Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
2004 Education in Greece: George Papandreou, junior talks about the possibility to allow private universities in Greece. (Greek)
2003 UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix and International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohammed El Baradei give a report to the United Nations Security Council. They say that progress on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is ampquotinching forwardampquot but that a more ampquotpro-activeampquot stance is required from the Iraqi government.
2001 Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, was launched.
2000 The administration of Ecuador president Jamil Mahuad announces its intention to adopt the U.S. dollar as the official currency of the country to address the ongoing economic crisis. Subsequent protest led to the 2000 Ecuadorian coup d'état which saw Mahuad's removal from office and the elevation of Vice President Gustavo Noboa to the presidency.
1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1996 First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighbouring Republic of Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 metre free style (53.33).
1992 At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Apple Computer chairman John Sculley coins the term Personal Digital Assistant, referring to handheld computers that typically operate via a stylus on a LCD display. Sculley announces that Apple will enter the consumer-electronics market by the end of the year.
1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
1989 Pat Sajak Show premieres on CBS
1988 English Earl of Saint Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli.
1987 Chinese / Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1986 After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant picture camera business.
1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands.
1982 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; first since 1855.
1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal.
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin.
1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established.
1977 Porgy & Bess closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
1976 Ringo releases Oh My My in the UK
1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike.
1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1971 Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen closes at Majestic NYC after 19 performances
1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted.
1969 1st trial flight of Concorde
1968 US Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon.
1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond
1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism.
1965 The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panam� Canal Zone.
1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo
1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks.
1961 British authorities announce that they have discovered a large Soviet spy ring in London.
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt begins.
1959 Rawhide with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper Truth
1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column first appears in newspapers.
1954 Bert Olmstead, Montreal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game.
1953 Korean ferryboat Chang Tyong-Ho sank off Pusan killing 249
1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an X rating, premieres
1950 The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China.
1947 Street Scene opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
1946 Would-Be Gentleman opens at Booth Theater NYC for 77 performances
1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines.
1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars.
1942 Joe Louis knocks out Buddy Baer in one round for heavyweight boxing title.
1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania.
1940 WWII British submarine is sunk.
1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians.
1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army.
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1927 A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
1923 Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
1921 Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of Inonu, the first battle of the war, began near Eskisehir in Anatolia.
1920 Thousands of onlookers watch as quotThe Human Flyquot George Polley climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He reaches the 30th floor before being arrested.
1919 Friedrich Ebert orders the Freikorps into action in Berlin.
1918 Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
1917 World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1916 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco.
1914 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
1912 US marines invade Honduras.
1909 Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium.
1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1 / 22 NS)
1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to New York
1901 New South Wales (918) defeat South Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605.
1900 The first through passenger train goes from Cairo to Khartoum.
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