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January 9th Calendar By Years in History

  • Calendar Day of Week for January 9th. It's the 8th day of the year (9th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days left to the end of the year.

Historical Events for January 9th

  • Year 475 Calendar » List of Byzantine emperors or Byzantine Emperor Zeno (emperor) named Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
  • Year 681 Calendar » Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
  • Year 1127 Calendar » Jin campaigns against the Song Dynasty Jin–Song wars: Invading Jurchen people Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty (1115–1234) Jin Dynasty Jingkang Incident besiege and sack Kaifeng Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct
  • Year 1150 Calendar » Emperor Hailingwang of Jin known as Prince Hailing of Jin and other court officials murder Emperor Xizong of Jin. Hailing succeeds him as emperor.
  • Year 1349 Calendar » The Jewish population of Basel called Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is Basel massacre called rounded up and incinerated.
  • Year 1760 Calendar » Afghanistan called Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
  • Year 1788 Calendar » Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
  • Year 1793 Calendar » Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
  • Year 1816 Calendar » Sir Humphry Davy tests Davy lamp named his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
  • Year 1822 Calendar » The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI of Portugal known as João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
  • Year 1839 Calendar » The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
  • Year 1857 Calendar » The 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake known as Fort Tejon earthquake strikes California, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
  • Year 1858 Calendar » Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
  • Year 1861 Calendar » 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".
  • Year 1861 » Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
  • Year 1863 Calendar » American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
  • Year 1878 Calendar » Umberto I of Italy known as Umberto I becomes House of Savoy or King of Italy.
  • Year 1880 Calendar » The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington (state) e.g Washington with high winds and heavy snow.
  • Year 1894 Calendar » New England Telephone and Telegraph Company named New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery (electricity) named battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • Year 1903 Calendar » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson or Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • Year 1909 Calendar » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the Flag of the United Kingdom British flag convert 97 nmi km mi from the South Pole, the Farthest South farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • Year 1914 Calendar » Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded.
  • Year 1916 Calendar » World War I: The Gallipoli Campaign called Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
  • Year 1917 Calendar » World War I: the Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
  • Year 1918 Calendar » Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
  • Year 1921 Calendar » Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) known as Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
  • Year 1923 Calendar » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
  • Year 1927 Calendar » A fire at the Laurier Palace Theatre fire called Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal named Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
  • Year 1938 Calendar » Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens.
  • Year 1941 Calendar » World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
  • Year 1941 » World War II: The Greek 'Triton' (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine 'Neghelli' in Otranto.
  • Year 1945 Calendar » World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
  • Year 1947 Calendar » Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
  • Year 1957 Calendar » Prime Minster of the United Kingdom called British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to Suez Crisis known as retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
  • Year 1960 Calendar » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
  • Year 1965 Calendar » The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
  • Year 1991 Calendar » Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
  • Year 1992 Calendar » The National Assembly of the Republika Srpska e.g Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
  • Year 1996 Calendar » First Chechen War: Chechen people Chechen Separatism separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis a massiv
  • Year 2004 Calendar » An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants Karaburun tragedy stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula, Albania Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
  • Year 2005 Calendar » Mahmoud Abbas wins the Palestinian presidential election, 2005 e.g election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
  • Year 2007 Calendar » Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first IPhone (original) or iPhone.
  • Year 2011 Calendar » Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
  • Year 2013 Calendar » A SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.
  • Year 2014 Calendar » An Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant explosion e.g explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Mie called Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.

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