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January 9 Gregorian calendar . There are 356 days remaining (357 in leap years ).
Events
1431 - The trial of Joan of Arc begins 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 .1880 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.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 perated 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 Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday , setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905 .1912 - Marines invade Honduras .1916 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale , as the last British troops are 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 .1962 - The NFL prohibits grabbing face masks.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 announces 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 are held to replace Yasser Arafat .
Births
1554 to 1899
1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623 )1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy , French soldier (d. 1621 )1589 - Ivan Gundulic , Croatian poet (d. 1638 )1624 - Empress Meisho of Japan (d. 1696 )1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis , Dutch philologist (d. 1766 )1728 - Thomas Warton , English poet (d. 1790 )1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom , Swedish poet (b. 1790 )1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett , English writer (d. 1856 )1829 - Thomas William Robertson , English playwright (d. 1871 )
1854 - Jennie Jerome , American society beauty (d. 1921 )1856 - Anton Aškerc , Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912 )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 , Ukrainian poet and translator (d. 1934 )1875 - Gertrude Whitney , American sculptor (d. 1942 )1879 - John Broadus Watson , American behaviorist psychologist (d. 1958 )1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie , British poet and critic (d. 1938 )
1890 - Karel Čapek , Czech writer (d. 1938 )
1892 - Eva Bowring , American politician (d. 1985 )1897 - Karl Löwith , German philosopher (d. 1973 )1898 - Gracie Fields , English vaudeville performer (d. 1979 )
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin , Russian composer (d. 1977 )
1900 to 1999
1901 - Chic Young , cartoonist (d. 1973 )1902 - Rudolph Bing , Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997 )
1904 (O. S.)- George Balanchine , Russian dancer, choreographer, and ballet producer (d. 1983 )1908 - Simone de Beauvoir , French author (d. 1986 )1912 - Ralph Tubbs , British architect1913 - Richard Nixon , 37th President of the United States (d. 1994 )1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke , American jazz drummer and composer1915 - Fernando Lamas , Argentine actor (d. 1982 )1915 - Les Paul , American guitarist and inventor
1916 - Vic Mizzy , American orchestra leader1916 - Peter Twinn , English mathematician and World War II code-breaker (d. 2004 )
1917 - Herbert Lom , Czech actor1920 - Clive Dunn , British actor1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré , President of Guinea (d. 1984 )
1925 - Lee Van Cleef , American actor (d. 1989 )1928 - Judith Krantz , American author
1929 - Heiner Muller , German dramatist (d. 1995 )
1931 - Algis Budrys , American author1932 - Robert P. Casey , American politician (d. 2000 )1934 - Bart Starr , American football player1935 - Bob Denver , American actor (d. 2005 )
1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons , American writer1940 - Jimmy Boyd , American actor, singer
1941 - Joan Baez , American singer and activist1942 - K Callan , American actress
1944 - Jimmy Page , English guitarist (Led Zeppelin )1950 - David Johansen American singer
1951 - Crystal Gayle , American singer1952 - Hugh Bayley , British politician1955 - J. K. Simmons , American actor1956 - Kimberly Beck , American actress
1958 - Mehmet Ali Agca , Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II 1959 - Rigoberta Menchú , Guatemalan writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1963 - Michael Everson , American expert in writing systems and Unicode
1965 - Joely Richardson , British actress1967 - Steven Harwell , American singer and musician (Smash Mouth )
1968 - Jimmy Adams , West Indian cricketer1975 - Angela Bettis , American actress1978 - Chad Johnson , American football player
1980 - Sergio García , Spanish golfer1986 - Ronak Rai,indian accessory designer
Deaths
1283 to 1899
1283 - Wen Tianxiang , Chinese prime minister (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 samurai and warlord (b. 1514 )1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon , French naval officer (b. 1510 )1598 - Jasper Heywood , English translator (b. 1553 )1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle , French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657 )1677 - Aernout van der Neer , Dutch cartoonist and painter (b. 1603 )1766 - Thomas Birch , British historian (b. 1705 )1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian scientist (b. 1718 )1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet , French general (b. 1762 )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 )1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820 )1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison , American watch manufacturer (b. 1812 )
1900 to 1999
1901 - Richard Copley Christie , English scholar (b. 1830 )1908 - Abraham Goldfaden , Russian-born actor (b. 1840 )
1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones , American composer (b. 1853 )1918 - Émile Reynaud , French scientist (b. 1844 )1923 - Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand writer (b. 1888 )1936 - John Gilbert , American actor (b. 1899 )1939 - Johann Strauss III , Austrian conductor (b. 1866 )1946 - Countee Cullen , American poet (b. 1903 )1947 - Karl Mannheim , German sociologist (b. 1893 )1961 - Emily Greene Balch , American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867 )1971 - Elmer Flick , baseball player (b. 1876 )1972 - Ted Shawn , American dancer (b. 1891 )1975 - Pierre Fresnay , French actor (b. 1897 )1979 - Sara Carter , American singer, guitarist (b. 1898 )1981 - Kazimierz Serocki , Polish composer (b. 1922 )1984 - Wolfgang Staudte , German director (b. 1906 )1985 - Robert Mayer , British businessman and philantropist (b. 1879 )1987 - Marion Hutton , American singer (b. 1919 )
1990 - Spud Chandler , baseball player (b. 1907 )1992 - Bill Naughton , British playwright (b. 1910 )1993 - Svetoslav Roerich , Russian painter (b. 1904 )1994 - Johnny Temple , baseball player (b. 1927 )1995 - Peter Cook , British actor. satirist, writer, and comedian (b. 1937 )
1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski , Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909 )1998 - Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1918 )
2000 onwards
Holidays and observances
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