Notable Historical Events on January 9th
January 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 |
1431 |
Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. |
1464 |
1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands |
1493 |
1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus) |
1522 |
Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) |
1558 |
Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland |
1570 |
Tsar Ivan the Terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod |
1718 |
France declares war on Spain |
1760 |
Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat |
1768 |
Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London. |
1788 |
Connecticut becomes 5th state |
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 |
1799 |
British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon. |
1806 |
Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. |
1811 |
1st Women's Golf Tournament held |
1812 |
Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon |
1834 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia |
1839 |
Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science |
1839 |
Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri) |
1847 |
1st SF newspaper published (California Star) |
1848 |
1st commercial bank in SF established |
1848 |
People's uprising in Palermo Sicily |
1854 |
Astor Library opens in NYC |
1855 |
Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead |
1857 |
7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon Calif |
1858 |
Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. |
1861 |
A Union merchant ship, the Star of the West, is fired upon as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina |
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 establishes |
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' (1.8 meters) 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 |
NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605 |
1903 |
2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 & moved it to NY |
1903 |
Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace |
1903 |
Wind Cave National Park, SD established |
1903 |
Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Balt franchise for $18,000 & move it to NYC (Yankees) |
1908 |
Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium |
1908 |
Muir Woods National Monument, California established |
1909 |
Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest South latitude (88°23' south) |
1912 |
US marines invade Honduras |
1915 |
Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF |
1916 |
The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are 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 metal strike ends |
1923 |
Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain |
1925 |
German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption |
1927 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow |
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 |
Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1942 |
US Joint Chiefs of Staff created |
1943 |
Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars |
1945 |
US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines |
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 SF |
1947 |
Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the black dahlia, is last seen alive. |
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 |
1952 |
Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty |
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, Mont 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 "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers |
1956 |
Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan |
1957 |
British premier Anthony Eden resigns |
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 |
1958 |
In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54 |
1959 |
"Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV |
1959 |
Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die |
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 |
1963 |
Mao Zedong writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" |
1964 |
Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone |
1965 |
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" |
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 |
1969 |
Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" single and its album "Revolver" in the US |
1969 |
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill travels to London to meet British Home Secretary James Callaghan, to brief him on the growing violence in Northern Ireland |
1970 |
Constitution of Singapore enacted |
1971 |
"Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic NYC after 19 perf |
1972 |
Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake |
1972 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
1972 |
Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour |
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 |
Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot |
1976 |
CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts |
1976 |
Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK |
1977 |
"Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances |
1977 |
Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR |
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 |
K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste" |
1979 |
Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses |
1979 |
Bobby Orr's #4 jersey is retired by the Boston Bruins |
1980 |
63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
1981 |
Francisco Balsamao elected pres 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 |
1983 |
British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands |
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 |
John Lennon single "Nobody Told Me" released posthumously |
1985 |
Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out |
1986 |
NY Islanders 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, 1500 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 |
1989 |
Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
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 |
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 |
Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame |
1991 |
Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games |
1993 |
Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m 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 involve 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 |
Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital |
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 |
1998 |
Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever |
2000 |
26th People's Choice Awards: Harrison Ford & Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture) and Drew Carey & Calista Flockhart win (TV) |
2000 |
Dan Marino wins his last career NFL game (20-17 vs Seattle) |
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. Now widely used by Windows and Mac users. |
2002 |
Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards |
2002 |
29th American Music Award: Janet Jackson & Lenny Kravitz win |
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. |
2005 |
Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh. |
2005 |
31st People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture) and Matt LeBlanc & Marg Helgenberger win (TV) |
2007 |
Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone. |
2007 |
33rd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Eva Longoria win (TV) |
2012 |
Lionel Messi wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the second consecutive year |
2014 |
5 people are killed in a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant, Yokkaichi, Japan |
2014 |
Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the Year |
2017 |
Turkish army says 48 Islamic State militants killed in Syria on Sunday |
2017 |
Tube strike: 24-hour London Underground walkout begins |
2018 |
North, South Korea to hold talks as Winter Olympics help break ice |
2018 |
North Korea will send Olympic team to South as countries hold high-level talks |
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