What happened on January 9? There are more than 316 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 9
January 9 is the 9th day of the year 2024. There are 357 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 2nd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Oregon House, California 95962 sunrise occured at 07:23 AM and sunset occured at 05:00 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Capricorn. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 32 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 9
- 475Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
- 1127Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty.
- 1349The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
- 1431Judges’ investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
- 1760Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
- 1768In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
- 1788Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
- 1793Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
- 1806Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
- 1816Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 1822The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
- 1839The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
- 1857The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
- 1858Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
- 1861American 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”.
- 1861Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1863American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
- 1878Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- 1880The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
- 1894New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 1903Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
- 1905According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
- 1909Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nmi from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
- 1914Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
- 1916World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
- 1917World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- 1918Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
- 1921Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
- 1923Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 1923Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
- 1927A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
- 1941World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
- 1941World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
- 1945World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
- 1947Elizabeth “Betty” Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
- 1960President 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.
- 1964Martyrs’ Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
- 1965The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
- 1991Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try and find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- 1992The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
- 1996First 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.
- 2004An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
- 2005Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
Who Were Born On January 9?
- 1475Crinitus, Florentine humanist (d. 1507)
- 1554Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
- 1571Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621)
- 1589Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
- 1624Empress Meishō (d. 1696)
- 1685Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
- 1728Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
- 1735John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet
- 1745Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
- 1753Luísa Todi, Portuguese mezzo-soprano opera singer (d. 1833)
- 1773Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
- 1790Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
- 1811Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
- 1818Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (d. 1881)
- 1819James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
- 1823Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
- 1829Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
- 1829Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
- 1832Félix-Gabriel Marchand, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1900)
- 1839John Knowles Paine, American composer (d. 1906)
- 1848Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
- 1849John Hartley, English tennis player (d. 1935)
- 1854Jennie Jerome, American socialite and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
- 1856Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
- 1859Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947)
- 1864Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
- 1868S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
- 1870Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
- 1873Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
- 1875Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
- 1879John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
- 1881Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
- 1881Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
- 1881Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
- 1886Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin (d. 1943)
- 1890Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
- 1890Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935)
- 1892Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
- 1896Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
- 1897Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1898Gracie Fields, English music hall performer (d. 1979)
- 1898Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
- 1898Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1900Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
- 1900Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
- 1901Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1902Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
- 1902Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
- 1903Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
- 1908Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
- 1909Anthony Mamo, Malta’s 1st President (d. 2008)
- 1909Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
- 1909J. R. Simplot, American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
- 1909Patrick Peyton, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1992)
- 1912Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
- 1913Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1914Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985)
- 1915Anita Louise, U.S. actress (d. 1970)
- 1915Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
- 1916Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
- 1916Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (d. 2009)
- 1918Alma Ziegler, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (d. 2005)
- 1920Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
- 1920Clive Dunn, British actor
- 1920Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar (d. 1998)
- 1921Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
- 1922Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
- 1922Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
- 1924Sergei Parajanov, Soviet film director (d. 1990)
- 1925Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1926Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
- 1928Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994)
- 1928Judith Krantz, American author
- 1929Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
- 1929Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
- 1929Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
- 1931Algis Budrys, American author (d. 2008)
- 1933Robert Garcia, American politician
- 1933Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
- 1934Bart Starr, American football player
- 1935Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1935Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
- 1935Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
- 1935Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American publisher
- 1936Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
- 1938Stuart Woods, American novelist
- 1939Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011)
- 1940Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005)
- 1940Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
- 1940Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
- 1940Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
- 1941Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
- 1941Joan Baez, American singer and activist
- 1942John Dunning, American writer
- 1942Judy Malloy, American hypertext fiction pioneer and artist
- 1942K Callan, American actress
- 1942Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
- 1943Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
- 1943Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
- 1943Robert Drewe, Australian author
- 1943Scott Walker, American singer
- 1944Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
- 1944Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
- 1945John Doman, American actor
- 1947Ronnie Landfield, American artist
- 1948Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
- 1948Cassie Gaines, backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
- 1950David Johansen, American singer
- 1950Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
- 1951Crystal Gayle, American singer
- 1951M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
- 1952Hugh Bayley, British politician
- 1952Michael Capuano, American politician, United States Congressman from Massachusetts
- 1953Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist.
- 1953Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children’s author
- 1954Philippa Gregory, English historical novelist
- 1955J. K. Simmons, American actor
- 1955Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
- 1956Imelda Staunton, British actress
- 1956Kimberly Beck, American actress
- 1956Mike Walczewski, American public address announcer at Madison Square Garden
- 1957Bibie, Ghanaian singer
- 1957Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns)
- 1958Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
- 1958Stephen Neale, British philosopher
- 1959Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
- 1959Mark Martin, American race car driver
- 1959Otis Nixon, American baseball player
- 1959Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1961Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
- 1963Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
- 1964Stan Javier, Dominican baseball player
- 1965Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player
- 1965Eric Erlandson, American musician
- 1965Haddaway, Trinidadian singer
- 1965Iain Dowie, English football manager
- 1965Joely Richardson, British actress
- 1965Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
- 1966Jan Johansen, Swedish singer
- 1967Carl Bell, American musician
- 1967Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
- 1967Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
- 1967Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player
- 1967Steve Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
- 1968Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
- 1968Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress
- 1968Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer
- 1968Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
- 1970Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
- 1970Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
- 1970Mia X, American rapper
- 1971Angie Martinez, American rapper and radio talk host
- 1971Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
- 1971Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
- 1971Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
- 1972Jay Powell, baseball player
- 1972Mat Hoffman, professional BMX rider
- 1972Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
- 1973Angela Bettis, American actress
- 1973Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician
- 1974Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer.
- 1975Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1975Kim Mathers, Eminem’s ex-wife
- 1976Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976Simon Gosejohann, German comedian
- 1976Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
- 1977Beth Troutman, American production assistant
- 1978AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1978Chad Ochocinco, American football player
- 1978Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
- 1978Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
- 1978Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer
- 1979Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
- 1980Sergio García, Spanish golfer
- 1981Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
- 1982Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- 1982Timmy Bowers, American basketball player
- 1983Sharad Malhotra, Indian television actor
- 1984Benjamin Danso, German rugby player
- 1986Amanda Mynhardt, South African netballer
- 1986Jéferson, Brazilian footballer
- 1987Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian footballer
- 1987Mao Inoue, Japanese actress
- 1987Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
- 1987Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
- 1987Sam Bird, English racing driver
- 1989Chris Sandow, Australian Rugby League player
- 1989Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
- 1989Michael Beasley, American basketball player
- 1989Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian actress
- 1990Melissa Ricks, Filipina actress
Who Died On January 9?
- 1150Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état. (b. 1119)
- 1282Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
- 1283Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
- 1499John Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
- 1514Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
- 1543Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
- 1562Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
- 1571Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
- 1598Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
- 1677Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
- 1757Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
- 1757Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
- 1766Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
- 1799Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
- 1800Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
- 1805Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
- 1843William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
- 1848Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
- 1858Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
- 1873Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
- 1876Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
- 1877Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
- 1878King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
- 1895Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
- 1901Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
- 1908Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
- 1908Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
- 1911Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
- 1911Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
- 1918Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
- 1923Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
- 1927Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
- 1931Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
- 1936John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1939Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
- 1945Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
- 1946Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
- 1946Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
- 1947Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
- 1960Elsie J. Oxenham, British children’s author (b. 1880)
- 1961Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
- 1971Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
- 1972Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
- 1975Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
- 1975Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
- 1979Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
- 1981Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
- 1984Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
- 1985Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
- 1987Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1989Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1990Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
- 1992Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
- 1992Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1993Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
- 1994Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
- 1995Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
- 1995Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
- 1997Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
- 1997Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1998Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
- 1998Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
- 2000Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
- 2000Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
- 2001Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
- 2003Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
- 2004Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
- 2005Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
- 2006Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
- 2006Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
- 2007Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
- 2007Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
- 2008Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
- 2008Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (b. 1949)
- 2008Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
- 2008Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b. 1924)
- 2009Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (b. 1987)
- 2009T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
- 2010Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
- 2011Makinti Napanangka, Indigenous Australian artist (b.circa 1930)
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