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This Day in History - January 9

January 9
1324 – Italian explorer, Marco Polo dies
1431 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen, France
1493 – Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sees manatees near the Dominican Republic and mistakes them for mermaids, describing them as “not half as beautiful as they are painted”
1554 – Gregory XV, Roman Catholic Pope, is born
1719 – Philip V of Spain declares war on France
1760 – The Afghans defeat the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat
1768 – The first modern circus is held by Philip Astley in London
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, calling for complete independence in the colonies
1792 – The Ottomans sign a treaty with the Russians ending war
1793 – Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight in North America
1806 – British naval hero Lord Horatio Nelson is buried at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London
1839 – The Daguerreotype photo process is announced at the French Academy of Science
1861 – The Union ship Star of the West is prevented from entering Charleston Harbor on her way to Fort Sumter by Southern shellfire
1861 – Mississippi secedes from the Union
1873 – 1st President of France, Napoleon III dies
1887 – Nearly an inch of snow falls every hour for 16 hours in the West, decimating cattle herds who had been poorly fed, losing millions of cattle in what was known as the “Great Die-Up”
1890 – Czech writer and playwright Karel Capek is born
1890 – German journalist Kurt Tucholsky is born
1905 – The Russian Revolution of 1905 begins when troops fired on petitioners to Czar Nicholas in St. Petersburg
1908 – Count Zeppelin announces plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers
1908 – German poet, painter, and illustrator, Wilhelm Busch dies
1908 – Russian author, playwright, and actor, Abraham Goldfaden dies
1909 – Ernest Shackleton leads a Polar exploration team 97 nautical miles short of the South Pole. The weather was too severe to continue
1912 – Colonel Theodore Roosevelt announces that if asked, he would run for president
1913 – 37th US President Richard Nixon is born
1915 – Pancho Villa signs a treaty with the US to halt border conflicts
1917 – British troops launch an offensive against Turkish troops at Khadairi Bend, north of Kut, Mesopotamia
1922 – 1st President of Guinea, Ahmed Sekou Toure is born
1924 – Ford Motor Co. stock is valued at almost $1 billion
1941 – American folk singer and activist, Joan Baez is born
1943 – Soviet planes drop leaflets on the surrounded Germans in Stalingrad requesting their surrender but they refuse
1944 – Musician, producer, and songwriter, Jimmy Page is born
1945 – US troops land on Luzon in the Philippines
1947 – French General Leclerc breaks off all talks with Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh
1952 – During his State of the Union, President Harry Truman warns Americans that they are “moving through a perilous time,” and a call for action against the Communist threat
1952 – Jackie Robinson becomes the highest paid player in Brooklyn Dodger history
1963 – American and Irish linguist and a leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts, Michael Averson is born
1964 – US forces kill six Panamanian student protestors who were demonstrating in the Panama Canal Zone
1965 – The James Bond movie “Goldfinger” features an Aston Martin Silver Birch DB5 sports car for the first time
1965 – General Nguyen Khanh and the Armed Forces Council agree to support the government of Premier Tran Van Huong
1967 – Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, Dave Matthews is born
1967 – The Agency for International Development respond to reports in the media that widespread corruption and theft of supplies sent to South Vietnam was occurring
1968 – The last of America’s unmanned lunar probes, Surveyor 7, lands on the Moon
1972 – The ship Seawise University (renamed from the original, Queen Elizabeth) sinks in Hong Kong Harbor due to a fire
1972 – The Los Angeles Lakers 33-game winning streak is ended when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leads the Milwaukee Bucks in victory over the Lakers
1974 – Cambodian government troops launch a drive to avert insurgent attack on Phnom Penh
1976 – Sylvester Stallone starts filming Rocky, a film born and written by Stallone and the first film in which he was cast in a leading role
1979 – The staging of the Music for UNICEF concert is held in New York, raising money for children facing extreme poverty, malnutrition and lack of access to education
1982 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (Catherine Elizabeth “Kate” Middleton), the
wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is born
1984 – Angelo Buono, one of the Hillside Stranglers, is sentenced to life in prison for his bit in the rape, torture and murder of 10 Los Angeles women
1992 – The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina announces the creation of the Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia
1996 – Thousands of civilians are taken hostage during a raid by Chechen separatists in the city of Kizlyar
2005 – Mahmoud Abbas wins election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority
2005 – The Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War is signed by the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement
2007 – The first iPhone is unveiled by Steve Jobs, Apple CEO
2014 – American poet, activist, and actor, Amiri Baraka dies

Written by Crystal McCann
Crystal is the Chief Operating Officer of Lanterns Media Network and the owner of Madisons Media. She lives in Texas with her husband and dogs and is the proud mother of two adult children.
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