Today
in History
9 January
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| 1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king | ||
| 1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France | ||
| 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses | ||
| 1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid | ||
| 1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands | ||
| 1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus) | ||
| 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) | ||
| 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland |
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| 1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod | ||
| 1718 France declares war on Spain | ||
| 1728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy) was born | ||
| 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat | ||
| 1788 Connecticut ratified the U.S. constitution and became the fifth member state. | ||
| 1792 The Treaty of Jassy ended the Russo-Turkish War; the Russian frontier was extended and the Ottomans also gained territory. | ||
| 1793 French aeronaut Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon flight over the North American continent. | ||
| 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery | ||
| 1806 Lord Horatio Nelson, British naval hero, was buried at St Paul's Cathedral in London; he led the British fleet against the French at Trafalgar in October 1805 and was mortally wounded in the victory. | ||
| 1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon | Lord Horatio Nelson |
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| 1829 Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (Tarimbekken) was born | ||
| 1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia | ||
| 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science | ||
| 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri) | ||
| 1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies | ||
| 1856 Stevan Mokranjac, composer was born | ||
| 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon Calif | ||
| 1861 Mississippi seceded from the Union as the Civil War conflict escalated. | ||
| 1873 Napoleon III, Emperor of France and nephew of Napoleon I, died; his defeat by Prussia in 1871 forced him into exile in England, where he lived until his death. |
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| 1875 Alfonso XII landed at Barcelona after being proclaimed King of Spain. | ||
| 1878 Victor Emmanuel died and was succeeded as King of Italy by Umberto I. | ||
| 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson | ||
| 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas | ||
| 1900 Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer was born | ||
| 1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops | ||
| 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium | ||
| 1912 US marines invade Honduras | ||
| 1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends | ||
| 1923 Don Juan de la Cierva, Spanish flier and inventor, made the first successful flight of an autogyro, forerunner of the helicopter. | ||
| 1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died | ||
| 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians | ||
| 1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium | ||
| 1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania | ||
| 1943 Japanese govt in Java limits sale & use of motorcars | ||
| 1945 U.S. forces led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur invaded the Philippines. | ||
| 1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston | ||
| 1952 Belgian Pholien govt resigns | ||
| 1956 Samir el-Rifai forms govt in Jordan | ||
| 1957 Anthony Eden resigned as British prime minister just months after the Suez Canal crisis. | ||
| 1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die | ||
| 1960 Construction work started on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. | ||
| 1962 Japan and the United States signed an agreement for Japan to pay $290 million in settlement of its debt for post-war U.S. aid. | ||
| 1964 22 Panamanian students died during riots which began after U.S. residents of the Panama Canal zone prevented them from hoisting their flag there. | ||
| 1969 1st trial flight of Concorde | ||
| 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted | ||
| 1972 Fire destroyed the liner Queen Elizabeth in waters off Hong Kong. | ||
| 1972 The grand cruise liner Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. | ||
| 1973 Rhodesia closed its Zambesi river border with Zambia due to guerrilla attacks. | ||
| 1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike | ||
| 1980 In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics were beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November 1979. | ||
| 1981 Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal | ||
| 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855 | ||
| 1984 The Jordanian parliament was reconvened for the first time in ten years. | ||
| 1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed | ||
| 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect | ||
| 1991 Major League Baseball officially banned Pete Rose from election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. | ||
| 1992 Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina declared a separate republic and said it would be part of federal Yugoslavia. | ||
| 1994 Gunmen in South Africa shot and killed a journalist and wounded two in an attack on a party of officials, including ANC General-Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa. | ||
| 1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight | ||
| 1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport | ||
| 1996 Chechen rebels seized some 2,000 hostages in a southern Russian town and threatened to kill them if their demands were not met. | ||
| 1996 International donors pledged a total of $1.37 billion in aid to the new Palestinian Authority. |