Historical Events on January 9

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• 475 Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
• 1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French King

• 1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
• 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses

• 1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands

• 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
• 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland

• 1718 France declares war on Spain
• 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
• 1768 Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus in London
• 1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state to ratify the US constitution
• 1792 Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
• 1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard


• 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery

• 1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held

• 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
• 1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
• 1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established
• 1848 People's uprising in Palermo, Sicily
• 1854 Astor Library opens in New York City
• 1855 Clipper "Guiding Star" disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead
• 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon, California
• 1858 Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide

• 1861 Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
• 1862 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks, London, England aboard the Elizabeth Watts
• 1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post, AR (Ft Hindman)
• 1866 Fisk University opens in Nashville, Tennessee
• 1878 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.


• 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
• 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
• 1880 6' (1.83 metres) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
• 1880 The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow
• 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
• 1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte" premieres in Paris
• 1894 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1901 New South Wales (918) defeat South Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
• 1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
• 1903 Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, established
• 1903 Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase the American League's Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and move it to NYC (later the NY Yankees)
• 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
• 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California, established

• 1912 US Marines send troops to Honduras
• 1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated in San Francisco
• 1916 The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops evacuated
• 1917 World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
• 1922 Rotterdam metalworkers strike ends
• 1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro flight, Spain
• 1923 Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary
• 1925 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption

• 1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
• 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions" premieres in NYC
• 1929 Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in NYC
• 1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
• 1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game

• 1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
• 1936 Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart" premieres in London
• 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
• 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
• 1937 Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in NYC
• 1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
• 1940 J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal" premieres in NYC
• 1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest, Romania
• 1941 Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane

• 1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
• 1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars

• 1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 77 performances
• 1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
• 1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony premieres in San Francisco

• 1947 Providence Steamrollers guard Dino Martin becomes the first NBA player to ever score 40 points in a game, in a 91-68 win over Cleveland Rebels at Rhode Island Auditorium
• 1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
• 1951 "Life After Tomorrow", 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
• 1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds
• 1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
• 1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title

• 1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game


• 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
• 1954 -87°F (-66°C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
• 1954 Bert Olmstead of the Montreal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
• 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
• 1956 Abigail Van Buren's [Pauline Phillips] "Dear Abby" advice column 1st appears in newspapers
• 1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
• 1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
• 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
• 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
• 1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR

• 1959 Dam across Tera River in Northwestern Spain collapses after heavy winter rains, killing 135
• 1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis, to become NWA champ
• 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
• 1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St Paul territory
• 1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
• 1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1964 Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
• 1965 The Beatles' 65 album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
• 1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
• 1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond
• 1967 NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints"
• 1967 "More of the Monkees" 2nd album by The Monkees is released
• 1968 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
• 1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
• 1969 First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner, Bristol, England

• 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
• 1971 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic NYC after 19 performances

• 1972 Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour

• 1972 British coal miners begin a national strike, the first for half a century
• 1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
• 1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
• 1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes

• 1976 C. W. McCall CB song "Convoy" hits #1 on the country music charts

• 1977 "Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances

• 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
• 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
• 1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws

• 1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

• 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
• 1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
• 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
• 1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game

• 1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
• 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
• 1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh

• 1984 Rock band Van Halen release their most successful album "1984"
• 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
• 1986 NY Islanders repeat their greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
• 1986 After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
• 1987 Chinese Vietnamese border fights, 1,500 killed
• 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
• 1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson" premieres in Boston
• 1988 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
• 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS

• 1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
• 1990 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
• 1990 Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1990 US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
• 1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis

• 1991 Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games

• 1992 Alison Halford, Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside Police (Britain's most senior policewoman) is suspended after allegations of misconduct
• 1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100m free style (53.33)
• 1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
• 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
• 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
• 1995 Ecuador & Peru involved in boundary fight
• 1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
• 1996 First episode of "Third Rock from the Sun" screened on NBC

• 1997 After 5 days missing, Tony Bullimore rescued alive after his boat capsized in Southern Ocean
• 1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
• 1998 Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hrs 8 mins


• 1998 Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
• 1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

• 1999 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Mark Philippoussis clinches Australia's unassailable 2-0 lead, (ends 2-1), with a 6-3, 7-6 win over Sweden's Jonas Björkman; Australia's first title

• 2001 ABC-TV deputs "The Mole" for the first time
• 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

• 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.

• 2006 11th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Brokeback Mountain wins Best Film
• 2006 "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" single released by Rodney Atkins (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)

• 2007 33rd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Eva Longoria win (TV)
• 2009 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Dominik Hrbatý beats Russia's Marat Safin 6-7, 7-5, 7-6 for an unassailable 2-0 lead, and Slovakia's 3rd title

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