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09 Jan 1349
700 Jews of Basel Switzerland burned alive in their houses
09 Jan 1522
Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
09 Jan 1558
Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton Switzerland
09 Jan 1760
Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
09 Jan 1768
Philip Astley stages the worlds first modern circus in London
09 Jan 1788
Connecticut becomes 5th state to ratify the US constitution
09 Jan 1793
1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
09 Jan 1793
Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
09 Jan 1839
Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
09 Jan 1847
1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
09 Jan 1848
1st commercial bank in San Francisco established
09 Jan 1855
Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic 480 dead
09 Jan 1858
Anson Jones the last President of the Republic of Texas commits suicide
09 Jan 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
09 Jan 1861
Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
09 Jan 1862
The first petroleum shipment (1329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks London England aboard the Elizabeth Watts
09 Jan 1863
-Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Ft Hindman)
09 Jan 1879
Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
09 Jan 1879
Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
09 Jan 1880
6 (1.83 metres) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
09 Jan 1880
The Great Gale of devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow
09 Jan 1894
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze released in movie theaters
09 Jan 1894
Georges Feydeaus Un la Patte premieres in Paris
09 Jan 1894
New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington Massachusetts.
09 Jan 1901
New South Wales (918) defeat South Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
09 Jan 1903
Baseballs National & American Leagues make peace
09 Jan 1903
Wind Cave National Park South Dakota established
09 Jan 1903
Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase the American Leagues Baltimore baseball franchise for 18000 and move it to NYC (later the NY Yankees)
09 Jan 1908
Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
09 Jan 1908
Muir Woods National Monument California established
09 Jan 1915
Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated in San Francisco
09 Jan 1916
The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of anakkale as the last British troops evacuated
09 Jan 1917
World War I the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
09 Jan 1922
KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
09 Jan 1923
Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro flight Spain
09 Jan 1923
Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary
09 Jan 1925
German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
09 Jan 1927
Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal 78 children died
09 Jan 1928
Eugene ONeills Marco Millions premieres in NYC
09 Jan 1929
Buddy DeSylva & Lew Browns musical Follow Thru premieres in NYC
09 Jan 1929
KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
09 Jan 1930
Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
09 Jan 1933
Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
09 Jan 1936
Noel Cowards Astonished Heart premieres in London
09 Jan 1937
Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
09 Jan 1937
Maxwell Andersons High Tor premieres in NYC
09 Jan 1940
2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
09 Jan 1940
J Thurber & E Nugents Male Animal premieres in NYC
09 Jan 1941
6000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
09 Jan 1941
Maiden flight by Canadas British-built Avro Lancaster military plane
09 Jan 1943
Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
09 Jan 1946
Would-Be Gentleman opens at Booth Theater NYC for 77 performances
09 Jan 1947
Street Scene opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
09 Jan 1947
Roger Sessions 2nd Symphony premieres in San Francisco
09 Jan 1947
Providence Steamrollers guard Dino Martin becomes the first NBA player to ever score 40 points in a game in a 91-68 win over Cleveland Rebels at Rhode Island Auditorium
09 Jan 1948
Walter Pistons 3rd Symphony in E premieres in Boston
09 Jan 1951
Life After Tomorrow 1st film to receive an X rating premieres
09 Jan 1952
Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
09 Jan 1953
Bevo Francis Rio Grande College scores 116 pts in basketball game
09 Jan 1953
Korean ferryboat Chang Tyong-Ho sank off Pusan killing 249
09 Jan 1954
-87F (-66C) Northice Station Greenland (Greenland record)
09 Jan 1954
Bert Olmstead of the Montreal Canadiens ties NHL record of 8 points in game
09 Jan 1954
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
09 Jan 1956
Abigail Van Burens [Pauline Phillips] Dear Abby advice column 1st appears in newspapers
09 Jan 1957
Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper Truth
09 Jan 1957
Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
09 Jan 1959
Dam across Tera River in Northwestern Spain collapses after heavy winter rains killing 135
09 Jan 1959
Pat OConnor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis to become NWA champ
09 Jan 1961
Twins agree on 500000 payment to AA for MinnSt Paul territory
09 Jan 1972
Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour
09 Jan 1972
Led by future Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Milwaukee Bucks beat LA Lakers 120-104 ending LAs consecutive win streak at 33 the longest winning streak in major league sports history
09 Jan 1972
British coal miners begin a national strike the first for half a century
09 Jan 1975
600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
09 Jan 1975
Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
09 Jan 1976
C. W. McCall CB song Convoy hits 1 on the country music charts
09 Jan 1977
Porgy & Bess closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
09 Jan 1979
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
09 Jan 1979
High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
09 Jan 1979
Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
09 Jan 1981
Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
09 Jan 1982
5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada 1st since 1855
09 Jan 1982
Steve DInnocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
09 Jan 1984
TVs Bloopers & Practical Jokes premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
09 Jan 1984
Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
09 Jan 1962
Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn to become NWA champ
09 Jan 1964
Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
09 Jan 1965
The Beatles 65 album goes 1 & stays 1 for 9 weeks
09 Jan 1966
Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
09 Jan 1967
NFL New Orleans franchise takes name Saints
09 Jan 1967
More of the Monkees 2nd album by The Monkees is released
09 Jan 1968
1st ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
09 Jan 1969
First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner Bristol England
09 Jan 1971
Lovely Ladies Kind Gentlemen closes at Majestic NYC after 19 performances
09 Jan 1984
Rock band Van Halen release their most successful album
09 Jan 1985
Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
09 Jan 1986
NY Islanders repeat their greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
09 Jan 1986
After losing a patent battle with Polaroid Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
09 Jan 1987
Chinese Vietnamese border fights 1500 killed
09 Jan 1988
August Wilsons Piano Lesson premieres in Boston
09 Jan 1988
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
09 Jan 1990
64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
09 Jan 1990
Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
09 Jan 1990
Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
09 Jan 1990
US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
09 Jan 1991
Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
09 Jan 1991
Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
09 Jan 1991
Chicagos Michael Jordan scores a game-high 40 points to lead the Bulls to a 107-99 win over Philadelphia at the Spectrum reaches the 15000 point mark of his career
09 Jan 1992
Alison Halford Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside Police (Britains most senior policewoman) is suspended after allegations of misconduct
09 Jan 1993
Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100m free style (53.33)
09 Jan 1994
14th United Negro College Fund raises 11000000
09 Jan 1994
Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
09 Jan 1994
Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
09 Jan 1995
Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
09 Jan 1996
First episode of Third Rock from the Sun screened on NBC
09 Jan 1997
After 5 days missing Tony Bullimore rescued alive after his boat capsized in Southern Ocean
09 Jan 1998
Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
09 Jan 1998
Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hrs 8 mins
09 Jan 1998
Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
09 Jan 1998
Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
09 Jan 1998
Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
09 Jan 1999
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Mark Philippoussis clinches Australias unassailable 2-0 lead (ends 2-1) with a 6-3 7-6 win over Swedens Jonas Bjrkman Australias first title
09 Jan 2001
Shenzhou 2 an unmanned Chinese spacecraft is launched.
09 Jan 2001
Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco for organizing and playing digital music and videos
09 Jan 2005
The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha Kenya.
09 Jan 2006
11th Critics Choice Movie Awards Brokeback Mountain wins Best Film
09 Jan 2006
If Youre Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows) single released by Rodney Atkins (Billboard Song of the Year )
09 Jan 2007
33rd Peoples Choice Awards Johnny Depp & Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Eva Longoria win (TV)
09 Jan 2009
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Dominik Hrbat beats Russias Marat Safin 6-7 7-5 7-6 for an unassailable 2-0 lead and Slovakias 3rd title
09 Jan 1977
George Gershwins Porgy & Bess closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
09 Jan 1995
Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport
09 Jan 1868
Last convict ship the Hougoumont arrives in Fremantle ending 80 years of penal transportation to Australia [1]
09 Jan 1894
William K.L. Dicksons motion picture Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze aka Fred Otts Sneeze receives first US copyright for the format it was filmed a few days earlier at Edison Studio West Orange New Jersey [1]
09 Jan 1941
6000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest Romania
09 Jan 1947
Roger Sessions 2nd Symphony premieres in San Francisco with Pierre Monteux conducting the San Francisco Symphony
09 Jan 1948
Walter Pistons 3rd Symphony in E premieres in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky wins 1947 Pulitzer Prize
09 Jan 1997
Krzysztof Pendereckis choral symphony Seven Gates of Jerusalem premieres in Jerusalem Israel
09 Jan 1860
Dion Boucicaults stage drama Jeanie Deans opens at Laura Keenes Theatre NYC
09 Jan 1908
Frans Schollaert succeeds Jules De Trooz as premier of Belgium
09 Jan 1940
James Thurber and Elliott Nugents stage comedy The Male Animal premieres at the Cort Theater. NYC runs for 243 performances
09 Jan 1966
Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski barring him from travel abroad
09 Jan 1967
Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond
09 Jan 1971
Lovely Ladies Kind Gentlemen closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 19 performances
09 Jan 1977
Revival of George Gershwins Porgy & Bess closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
09 Jan 1979
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W. S. Merwin
09 Jan 2001
American version of Belgian reality game show The Mole premieres on ABC-TV
09 Jan 1728
Coronation of 12-year-old Peter II Alexeyevich as Tsar of Russia takes place in Moscow
09 Jan 1760
Afghans defeat the Indian Maratha Empire in the Battle of Barari Ghat
09 Jan 1940
James Thurber and Elliott Nugents stage comedy The Male Animal opens at the Cort Theater. NYC runs for 243 performances
09 Jan 1959
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro arrives in recently captured capital city of Havana
09 Jan 1998
Decapitated head of The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen Denmark is returned
09 Jan 1349
Black Death Massacre 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland are burnt to death in a specially constructed building on suspicion of poisoning the community during the Bubonic Plague part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
09 Jan 1464
First meeting of the States General of the Netherlands
09 Jan 1793
First hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia Pennsylvania piloted by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard it lands 15 miles away in Deptford New Jersey
09 Jan 1848
Dr. Stephen A. Wright establishes the Miners Bank in San Francisco California
09 Jan 1861
US Civil War Mississippi secedes from the Union
09 Jan 1863
-Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post Arkansa (Fort Hindman)
09 Jan 1936
US Army adopts M1 semi-automatic rifle designed by John Garand as new standard issue weapon [1]
09 Jan 1941
6000 Jews are murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest Romania
09 Jan 1960
Construction of the Aswan High Dam begins in Egypt
09 Jan 1962
Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis to become NWA champ
09 Jan 1969
First trial flight of the Concorde supersonic jetliner in Bristol England
09 Jan 1988
August Wilsons play The Piano Lesson premieres in Boston
09 Jan 2012
Time is Love single released by Josh Turner (Billboard Song of the Year )
09 Jan 2014
Five people are killed at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi Japan
09 Jan 2014
Taliban suicide car bomb assassinates senior police officer Chaudhry Aslam and kills three others in Pakistan Pakistan
09 Jan 2014
Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the Year
09 Jan 2018
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon leaves Breitbart News after his criticism of the White House in Fire and the Fury book
09 Jan 2018
Mudslides sweep away 100 houses in Montecito California killing at least 20 on land stripped bare by recent fires
09 Jan 2018
The first same-sex marriages take place in Australia after legislation passed a month earlier
09 Jan 1927
Dmitri Shostakovich Octet opus 11 premieres in Moscow
09 Jan 1928
Eugene ONeills play Marco Millions premieres in NYC
09 Jan 1933
Amsterdam confectionery workers go on strike against wage reduction
09 Jan 1936
Nol Cowards stage drama Astonished Heart premieres in London
09 Jan 1936
US Army adopts M1 semi-automatic rifle designed by John C. Garand as new standard issue weapon [1]
09 Jan 1948
Walter Pistons 3rd Symphony in E premieres in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky wins Pulitzer Prize
09 Jan 1952
Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
09 Jan 1956
Abigail Van Burens Dear Abby advice column 1st appears in newspapers
09 Jan 1958
In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56 Seton Hall team 54
09 Jan 1964
Anti-US rioting breaks out in Panama Canal Zone
09 Jan 1965
Beatles 65 album goes 1 and stays 1 for 9 weeks
09 Jan 1969
First test flight of the Concorde supersonic jetliner in Bristol England
09 Jan 1976
Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
09 Jan 1980
Princess Victoria becomes Crown Princess of Sweden following new royal succession rules allowing the oldest child to inherit the throne
09 Jan 1984
MLB Atlanta Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
09 Jan 1986
Barry Bingham Sr. announces he is selling The Louisville Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times amid familial disputes [1]
09 Jan 1997
Heart attacks sends singer Frank Sinatra back to hospital
09 Jan 2019
Californias monarch butterfly count drops by 86% according to 2018 census
09 Jan 2019
Car manufacturer Hyundai unveils a model of a proposed walking car for first responders in Las Vegas
09 Jan 2019
US President Donald Trump makes Oval Office address live on TV over government shutdown and border wall
09 Jan 2021
China places two cities Shijiazhuang and Xingtai under lockdown after over 130 cases of COVID-19 reported
09 Jan 2021
Justin Thomas uses a homophobic slur during the third round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions leading to the end of sponsorships with Ralph Lauren and Woodford Reserve
09 Jan 2021
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes in the Java Sea just after take off from Jakarta Indonesia killing all 62 on board
09 Jan 2022
At least 200 people killed and 10000 displaced by armed bandits in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara after military raids on their hideouts amid a continuing struggle for order in the region [1]
09 Jan 2022
Dan Campbell finishes his first season as head coach of the Detroit Lions with a 3131 record
09 Jan 2022
Fire in a Bronx New York residential high rise kills 17 and injures 63
09 Jan 2023
Intense storm hits Southern California forcing evacuations in Montecito and Santa Barbara [1]
09 Jan 2024
2023 confirmed as the worlds warmest year on record - 1.48C warmer than the long-term average driven by climate change and El Nio surpassed in [1]
09 Jan 2024
Armed gunmen storm a Ecuador Television network in Guayaquil during a live broadcast amid a state of emergency in the country after increasing attacks and abductions [1]
09 Jan 2024
Gabriel Attal named as Frances youngest and first openly gay Prime Minister at 34 replacing lisabeth Borne [1]
09 Jan 2024
St Paul Minnesota becomes the first large US city to swear in an all-female city council with six out of seven women of color and all under 40 years of age [1]
09 Jan 2025
1 million prize offered for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus civilisation by M.K. Stalin chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu [1]
09 Jan 2025
Lebanon chooses a president - General Joseph Aoun head of the army at their 12th attempt at a vote since Michel Aouns term ended on October 2022 [1]