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Events on the 9th of January in history

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09 Jan 0475 Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
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09 Jan 0681 Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
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09 Jan 1127 Jin–Song Wars: Invading 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.
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09 Jan 1150 Prince Hailing of Jin and other court officials murder Emperor Xizong of Jin. Hailing succeeds him as emperor.
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09 Jan 1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French King
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09 Jan 1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned King of France
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09 Jan 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
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09 Jan 1349 The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
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09 Jan 1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
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09 Jan 1431 Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
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09 Jan 1464 1st meeting of States-General of the Netherlands
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09 Jan 1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
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09 Jan 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch Pope (Adrian VI)
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09 Jan 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
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09 Jan 1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
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09 Jan 1718 France declares war on Spain
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09 Jan 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
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09 Jan 1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
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09 Jan 1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
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09 Jan 1792 Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
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09 Jan 1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia
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09 Jan 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
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09 Jan 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
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09 Jan 1793 Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
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09 Jan 1799 Income Tax introduced in the UK
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09 Jan 1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
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09 Jan 1806 Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
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09 Jan 1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
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09 Jan 1816 Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
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09 Jan 1822 The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
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09 Jan 1834 HMS Beagle / Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
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09 Jan 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
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09 Jan 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
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09 Jan 1839 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
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09 Jan 1847 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
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09 Jan 1848 1st commercial bank in SF established
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09 Jan 1854 Astor Library opens in New York City
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09 Jan 1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
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09 Jan 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon, California
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09 Jan 1857 The Fort Tejon earthquake strikes California, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
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09 Jan 1858 Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
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09 Jan 1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, South Carolina
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09 Jan 1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
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09 Jan 1861 Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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09 Jan 1861 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".
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09 Jan 1863 American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
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09 Jan 1866 Fisk University establishes
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09 Jan 1878 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
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09 Jan 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
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09 Jan 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
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09 Jan 1880 The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow.
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09 Jan 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
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09 Jan 1894 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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09 Jan 1901 New South Wales (918) defeat South Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605
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09 Jan 1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to New York
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09 Jan 1903 Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 and move it to NYC (Yankees)
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09 Jan 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established
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09 Jan 1903 Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
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09 Jan 1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1 / 22 NS)
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09 Jan 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as Premier of Belgium
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09 Jan 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
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09 Jan 1909 Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
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09 Jan 1912 US marines invade Honduras
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09 Jan 1914 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded.
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09 Jan 1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco
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09 Jan 1916 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
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09 Jan 1917 World War I: the Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
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09 Jan 1918 Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
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09 Jan 1921 Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
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09 Jan 1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
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09 Jan 1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends
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09 Jan 1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
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09 Jan 1923 Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
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09 Jan 1923 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
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09 Jan 1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
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09 Jan 1927 A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
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09 Jan 1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
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09 Jan 1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
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09 Jan 1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
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09 Jan 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
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09 Jan 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians
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09 Jan 1938 Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens.
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09 Jan 1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
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09 Jan 1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
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09 Jan 1941 World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
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09 Jan 1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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09 Jan 1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
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09 Jan 1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars
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09 Jan 1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
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09 Jan 1945 World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
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09 Jan 1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 77 performances
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09 Jan 1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
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09 Jan 1947 Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
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09 Jan 1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
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09 Jan 1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds
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09 Jan 1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
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09 Jan 1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
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09 Jan 1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
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09 Jan 1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game
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09 Jan 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
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09 Jan 1954 Bert Olmstead, Montreal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
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09 Jan 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams
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09 Jan 1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
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09 Jan 1957 British Premier Anthony Eden resigns
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09 Jan 1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
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09 Jan 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
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09 Jan 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
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09 Jan 1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
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09 Jan 1957 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
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09 Jan 1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
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09 Jan 1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
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09 Jan 1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
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09 Jan 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
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09 Jan 1960 President 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.
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09 Jan 1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn / St. Paul territory
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09 Jan 1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
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09 Jan 1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
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09 Jan 1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
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09 Jan 1964 Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
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09 Jan 1964 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.
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09 Jan 1965 "Beatles65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
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09 Jan 1965 The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
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09 Jan 1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
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09 Jan 1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond
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09 Jan 1968 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
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09 Jan 1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
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09 Jan 1969 1st trial flight of Concorde
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09 Jan 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
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09 Jan 1971 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic NYC after 19 performances
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09 Jan 1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
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09 Jan 1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
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09 Jan 1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
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09 Jan 1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
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09 Jan 1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
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09 Jan 1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
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09 Jan 1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in the UK
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09 Jan 1977 "Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
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09 Jan 1977 Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat the Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR
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09 Jan 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
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09 Jan 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
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09 Jan 1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
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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
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09 Jan 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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09 Jan 1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
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09 Jan 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855
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09 Jan 1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
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09 Jan 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
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09 Jan 1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
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09 Jan 1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
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09 Jan 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
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09 Jan 1987 Chinese / Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
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09 Jan 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
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09 Jan 1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
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09 Jan 1988 English Earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
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09 Jan 1988 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
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09 Jan 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
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09 Jan 1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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09 Jan 1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
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09 Jan 1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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09 Jan 1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
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09 Jan 1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
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09 Jan 1991 Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
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09 Jan 1991 Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
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09 Jan 1992 The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
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09 Jan 1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
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09 Jan 1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
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09 Jan 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
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09 Jan 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
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09 Jan 1995 Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight
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09 Jan 1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
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09 Jan 1996 First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
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09 Jan 1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
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09 Jan 1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
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09 Jan 1998 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes
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09 Jan 1998 Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
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09 Jan 1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
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09 Jan 1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
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09 Jan 2004 An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
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09 Jan 2005 The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
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09 Jan 2005 Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
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09 Jan 2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
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09 Jan 2011 Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
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09 Jan 2013 A SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.
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09 Jan 2014 An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
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09 Jan 2015 The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation. Elsewhere, a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market, Hypercacher, in the eastern Paris suburb of Vincennes.
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