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Almanac - January 9

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Events

475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
1127 – 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.
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.
1431 – Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
1768 – In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
1822 – The 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.
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
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".
1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
1905 – According 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.
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 furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of Inönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskisehir in Anatolia.
1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
1941 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
1945 – World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
1947 – Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
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.
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.
1965 – The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1991 – Representatives 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.
1992 – The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
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 neighbouring Republic of Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
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.
2005 – Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.

Births

1475 – Crinitus, Florentine humanist (d. 1507)
1554 – Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
1571 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621)
1589 – Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
1624 – Empress Meisho (d. 1696)
1685 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
1728 – Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
1735 – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet
1745 – Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
1753 – Luísa Todi, Portuguese mezzo-soprano opera singer (d. 1833)
1773 – Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
1811 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
1818 – Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (d. 1881)
1819 – James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
1823 – Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
1829 – Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
1829 – Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
1832 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1900)
1839 – John Knowles Paine, American composer (d. 1906)
1848 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
1849 – John Hartley, English tennis player (d. 1935)
1854 – Jennie Jerome, American socialite and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
1856 – Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
1859 – Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947)
1864 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
1868 – S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
1870 – Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
1873 – Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
1875 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
1879 – John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
1881 – Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
1881 – Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
1886 – Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin (d. 1943)
1890 – Karel Capek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
1890 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935)
1892 – Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
1896 – Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
1897 – Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
1898 – Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1898 – Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
1898 – Gracie Fields, English music hall performer (d. 1979)
1900 – Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
1900 – Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
1901 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
1902 – Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
1902 – Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
1903 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
1909 – Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
1909 – Anthony Mamo, Malta's 1st President (d. 2008)
1909 – Patrick Peyton, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1992)
1909 – J. R. Simplot, American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
1912 – Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
1914 – Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985)
1915 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
1915 – Anita Louise, U.S. actress (d. 1970)
1916 – Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (d. 2009)
1916 – Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
1918 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (d. 2005)
1920 – Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
1920 – Clive Dunn, British actor
1920 – Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar (d. 1998)
1921 – Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
1924 – Sergei Parajanov, Soviet film director (d. 1990)
1925 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
1926 – Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
1928 – Judith Krantz, American author
1928 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994)
1929 – Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
1929 – Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
1929 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1931 – Algis Budrys, American author (d. 2008)
1933 – Robert Garcia, American politician
1933 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1934 – Bart Starr, American football player
1935 – Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
1935 – Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
1935 – Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American publisher
1935 – Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
1936 – Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
1938 – Stuart Woods, American novelist
1939 – Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011)
1940 – Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
1940 – Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
1940 – Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005)
1940 – Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
1941 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
1941 – Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
1942 – K Callan, American actress
1942 – John Dunning, American writer
1942 – Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
1942 – Judy Malloy, American hypertext fiction pioneer and artist
1943 – Robert Drewe, Australian author
1943 – Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1943 – Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
1943 – Scott Walker, American singer
1944 – Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
1944 – Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
1945 – John Doman, American actor
1947 – Ronnie Landfield, American artist
1948 – Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
1948 – Cassie Gaines, backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1950 – David Johansen, American singer
1950 – Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
1951 – M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
1951 – Crystal Gayle, American singer
1952 – Hugh Bayley, British politician
1952 – Michael Capuano, American politician, United States Congressman from Massachusetts
1953 – Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist.
1953 – Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author
1954 – Philippa Gregory, English historical novelist
1955 – Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
1955 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
1956 – Kimberly Beck, American actress
1956 – Imelda Staunton, British actress
1956 – Mike Walczewski, American public address announcer at Madison Square Garden
1957 – Bibie, Ghanaian singer
1957 – Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns)
1958 – Mehmet Ali Agca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
1958 – Stephen Neale, British philosopher
1959 – Mark Martin, American race car driver
1959 – Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1959 – Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
1959 – Otis Nixon, American baseball player
1961 – Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
1963 – Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
1965 – Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player
1964 – Stan Javier, Dominican baseball player
1965 – Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
1965 – Iain Dowie, English football manager
1965 – Eric Erlandson, American musician
1965 – Haddaway, Trinidadian singer
1965 – Joely Richardson, British actress
1966 – Jan Johansen, Swedish singer
1967 – Carl Bell, American musician
1967 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
1967 – Steve Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
1967 – Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
1967 – Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player
1968 – Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer
1968 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
1968 – Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress
1968 – Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
1970 – Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
1970 – Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
1970 – Mia X, American rapper
1971 – Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
1971 – Angie Martinez, American rapper and radio talk host
1971 – Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
1971 – Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
1971 – Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
1972 – Mat Hoffman, professional BMX rider
1972 – Jay Powell, baseball player
1973 – Angela Bettis, American actress
1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician
1974 – Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer.
1975 – Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
1975 – Kim Mathers, Eminem's ex-wife
1976 – Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Simon Gosejohann, German comedian
1976 – Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
1977 – Beth Troutman, American production assistant
1978 – Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
1978 – AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1978 – Chad Ochocinco, American football player
1978 – Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
1979 – Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer
1979 – Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
1980 – Sergio García, Spanish golfer
1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
1982 – Timmy Bowers, American basketball player
1982 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
1983 – Sharad Malhotra, Indian television actor
1984 – Benjamin Danso, German rugby player
1986 – Jéferson, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Amanda Mynhardt, South African netballer
1987 – Sam Bird, English racing driver
1987 – Mao Inoue, Japanese actress
1987 – Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
1987 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
1989 – Michael Beasley, American basketball player
1989 – Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian actress
1989 – Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1989 – Chris Sandow, Australian Rugby League player
1990 – Melissa Ricks, Filipina actress

Deaths

1150 – Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état. (b. 1119)
1282 – Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
1283 – Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
1499 – John Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
1514 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
1543 – Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
1562 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
1571 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
1598 – Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
1677 – Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
1757 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
1766 – Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1805 – Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1843 – William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
1848 – Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1858 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1873 – Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1877 – Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
1878 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
1895 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
1901 – Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
1908 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
1908 – Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
1911 – Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
1911 – Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
1918 – Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1923 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
1927 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
1931 – Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
1936 – John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
1939 – Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
1945 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1946 – Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
1946 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
1947 – Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
1960 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1971 – Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1972 – Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
1975 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
1981 – Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
1984 – Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
1985 – Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
1987 – Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
1989 – Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1990 – Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1992 – Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
1992 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
1993 – Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
1994 – Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
1995 – Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
1995 – Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
1997 – Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
1998 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
2000 – Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
2000 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
2001 – Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
2003 – Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
2004 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
2005 – Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
2006 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
2006 – Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
2007 – Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
2007 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
2008 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
2008 – Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
2008 – Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b. 1924)
2008 – Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (b. 1949)
2009 – Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (b. 1987)
2009 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
2010 – Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
2011 – Makinti Napanangka, Indigenous Australian artist (b.circa 1930)

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