January 9th Events |
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| January 9th, 2007 (January 09 2007) | Event | Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone. | Steve Jobs Quotes |
| January 9th, 2005 (January 09 2005) | Event | 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. | |
| January 9th, 2005 (January 09 2005) | Event | Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh. | Yasser Arafat Quotes |
| January 9th, 2001 (January 09 2001) | Event | Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, is launched. | |
| January 9th, 1997 (January 09 1997) | Event | A Comair Embraer EMB 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro Airport, killing 29 people. | |
| January 9th, 1991 (January 09 1991) | Event | The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. | |
| January 9th, 1986 (January 09 1986) | Event | After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business. | |
| January 9th, 1972 (January 09 1972) | Event | The RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. | |
| January 9th, 1968 (January 09 1968) | Event | The only known snowfall in Mexico City occurs; additional snow falls on January 10 and 11. | |
| January 9th, 1964 (January 09 1964) | Event | Martyrs 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. | |
| January 9th, 1951 (January 09 1951) | Event | The United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City. | |
| January 9th, 1947 (January 09 1947) | Event | Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive. | |
| January 9th, 1945 (January 09 1945) | Event | The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines. | |
| January 9th, 1941 (January 09 1941) | Event | First flight of the Avro Lancaster. | |
| January 9th, 1941 (January 09 1941) | Event | World War II: The Greek Triton (S.112) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. | |
| January 9th, 1923 (January 09 1923) | Event | Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. | |
| January 9th, 1917 (January 09 1917) | Event | World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine. | |
| January 9th, 1916 (January 09 1916) | Event | The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Canakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated. | |
| January 9th, 1905 (January 09 1905) | Event | 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 Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905. | Julian Quotes |
| January 9th, 1903 (January 09 1903) | Event | Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. | |
| January 9th, 1894 (January 09 1894) | Event | New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. | |
| January 9th, 1880 (January 09 1880) | Event | The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow. | |
| January 9th, 1878 (January 09 1878) | Event | Umberto I becomes King of Italy. | Umberto Eco Quotes |
| January 9th, 1863 (January 09 1863) | Event | American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman occurs in Arkansas. | |
| January 9th, 1861 (January 09 1861) | Event | 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". | |
| January 9th, 1861 (January 09 1861) | Event | Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. | |
| January 9th, 1858 (January 09 1858) | Event | Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. | |
| January 9th, 1857 (January 09 1857) | Event | The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9. | |
| January 9th, 1839 (January 09 1839) | Event | The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. | |
| January 9th, 1822 (January 09 1822) | Event | The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king Joao VI, starting the Brazilian independence process. | |
| January 9th, 1816 (January 09 1816) | Event | Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. | |
| January 9th, 1806 (January 09 1806) | Event | Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul s Cathedral. | Horatio Nelson Quotes |
| January 9th, 1799 (January 09 1799) | Event | British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon. | |
| January 9th, 1793 (January 09 1793) | Event | Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. | |
| January 9th, 1788 (January 09 1788) | Event | Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States. | |
| January 9th, 1768 (January 09 1768) | Event | Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London. | |
| January 9th, 1760 (January 09 1760) | Event | Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. | |
| January 9th, 1431 (January 09 1431) | Event | Judges investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. | Joan of Arc Quotes |
| January 9th, 1349 (January 09 1349) | Event | The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, were rounded up and incinerated. | |
| January 9th, 0475 (January 09 0475) | Event | Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople. | Stan Lee Quotes |
