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What happened in history on this day: January 9?
On January 9 in ...
- 1788 - Connecticut becomes 5th state to ratify US Constitution.
- 1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard makes first balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia).
- 1857 - In Fort Tejon, California, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurs on the San Andreas fault, which ruptures a distance of about 300 kilometres.
- 1861 - First hostile act of coming war in America; US steamship Star of the West carrying troops and ammunition for Fort Sumter is fired on, at Sumter, South Carolina.
- 1861 - Mississippi becomes second state to secede from the USA.
- 1863 - (to January 11) Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas (Fort Hindman).
- 1879 - Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson.
- 1880 - 6 feet (1.8 metres) of snow falls in Seattle, Washington in five days.
- 1903 - Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, is established.
- 1908 - Muir Woods National Monument is established in California.
- 1912 - US marines invade Honduras.
- 1915 - Exposition Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco, California.
- 1936 - Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army.
- 1942 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created.
- 1945 - US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines.
- 1956 - Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column first appears in newspapers.
- 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1964 - Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone.
- 1968 - US Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon.
- 1979 - US Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses.
- 1982 - 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; first since 1855.
- 1986 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant picture camera business.
- 1987 - The Star Tours attraction opens in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. It cost US$32 million to create.
- 1990 - US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses.
- 1991 - American James Baker and Iraqi Terak Aziz meet in Geneva, Switzerland; talks fail to defuse the Persian Gulf crisis.
- 1991 - Microsoft releases Microsoft Excel for Windows 3.0, with Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology.
- 1992 - At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Apple Computer chairman John Sculley coins the term Personal Digital Assistant, referring to handheld computers that typically operate via a stylus on a LCD display. Sculley announces that Apple will enter the consumer-electronics market by the end of the year.
- 1997 - Michael Eisner signs a new ten-year contract as chairman of Disney. His base salary is US$750,000 per year, plus a bonus tied to the company's financial performance, and he receives stock options for 8 million shares to be exercised between 2003 and 2006. The value of the options is estimated at US$195-771 million.
- 2002 - The United States Department of Justice announces it will pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
- 2006 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since June 7, 2001, closing at 11,011.90.
- 2007 - U.S. planes conduct air strikes in Somalia against suspected terrorists.
- 2008 - (to January 12) to be At the FUN 2008 convention in Orlando, Florida, Heritage Auction Galleries conducts the auction of the Madison Collection. Some highlights:
- US 1792 fusion alloy cent pattern, VF-30 PCGS: $603,750;
- US 1796 $2.50, no stars, MS-65 PCGS: $1,725,000;
- US 1796 $2.50, with stars, MS-65 NGC: $1,006,250.
- 2008 - 70-car pileup along Interstate 4 in Florida, USA, due to fog and smoke. Five deaths.
- 2011 - US Mint Director Edmund Moy resigns.
Births on January 9
- 1913 - Birth of Richard Milhouse Nixon in Yorba Linda, California, USA; 37th US President (Republican, 1969-74).
- 1914 - Birth of Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Hovick] in Seattle, Washington, USA; burlesque actress (Gypsy).
- 1914 - Birth of Kenny (Klook) Clarke in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop).
- 1915 - Birth of Anita Louise in New York City, New York, USA; actress (My Friend Flicka).
- 1916 - Birth of Victor Mizzy in Brooklyn, New York, USA; orchestra leader, composer (The Don Rickles Show, Green Acres, The Addams Family).
- 1925 - Birth of Lee Van Cleef in New Jersey, USA; actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from New York).
- 1928 - Birth of Judith Krantz in New York City, New York, USA; author (Scruples, I'll Take Manhattan, Princess Daisy, Dazzle, Mistral's Daughter, Scruples, Till We Meet Again).
- 1935 - Birth of Bob Denver in New Rochelle, New York, USA; actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan - Gilligan's Island).
- 1935 - Birth of Dick Enberg in Mount Clemens, Michigan, USA; sportscaster (Where's Huddles).
- 1940 - Birth of Jimmy Boyd McComb in Missouri, USA; actor/singer (Howard - Bachelor Father).
- 1941 - Birth of Joan Baez in Staten Island, New York, USA; folk singer/human rights advocate.
- 1942 - Birth of K Callan in Dallas, Texas, USA; actress (This House Possessed, Splendor in the Grass, Martha - Lois and Clark).
- 1943 - Birth of Kathryn Walker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Beacon Hill, Barbara - Another World).
- 1948 - Birth of William Cowsill in Newport, Rhode Island, USA; rock guitarist/vocals (Cowsills - "We Can Fly").
- 1950 - Birth of David Johansen AKA Buster Poindexter in New York; singer ("Hot! Hot! Hot!").
- 1951 - Birth of Crystal Gayle in Kentucky, USA; country singer ("Don't it make my brown eyes blue").
- 1956 - Birth of Kimberly Beck Hilton in Glendale, California, USA; actress (Kim - Peyton Place).
- 1960 - Birth of David Peoples in Augusta, Maine, USA; Nike golfer (1991 Buick Southern Open).
- 1965 - Birth of Carin Garbarra in East Orange, New Jersey, USA; soccer forward (Olympics-1996).
- 1965 - Birth of Cindy Brooks in East Hampton, Connecticut, USA; rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Domingo Jean; Dominican/US baseball pitcher (Houston Astros).
- 1970 - Birth of Graciela Schutt in El Paso, Texas, USA; WPVA volleyball player (Deerfield-25th-1995).
- 1971 - Birth of Elizabeth Punsalan in Syracuse, New York, USA; dance skater (and Swallow, Olympics-15-1994).
- 1972 - Birth of Jay Powell in Meridian, Mississippi, USA; pitcher (Florida Marlins).
- 1972 - Birth of Kristie Hicks in Bardstown, Kentucky, USA; Miss Kentucky-America (1995).
- 1975 - Birth of Justin Huish in Fountain Valley, California, USA; archer (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1975 - Birth of Mariano Friedick in Tarzana, California, USA; pursuit cyclist (Olympics-1996).
- 1978 - Birth of A.J. McLean; American singer (Backstreet Boys).
- 1979 - Birth of Lavinia Magruder; Miss Vermont Teen-USA (1996).
Deaths on January 9
- 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at age 67.
- 1930 - Edward W Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at age 66.
- 1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies in New York City, New York at age 42.
- 1962 - LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at age 68.
- 1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer, dies at age 80.
- 1992 - Death of Claude Coats at age 78; artist at Walt Disney Company 1935-89 for films, displays at Disneyland attractions, named a Disney Legend 1988.
- 2001 - Death of Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (born 1926).
- 2014 - Death of Amiri Baraka, American poet (born 1934).
- 2014 - Death of Dale T. Mortensen, American Nobel economist (born 1939).
- 2022 - Death of Bob Saget at age 65, found dead in his hotel room in the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Florida, USA of blunt head trauma; comedian, actor (Full House TV show), host (America's Funniest Home Videos TV show).
- 2023 - Death of Charles Simic at age 84; poet (US poet laureate 2007-2008, Pulitzer Prize winner 1990).
- 2023 - Death of Melinda Dillon at age 83 in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Mrs. Parker - A Christmas Story movie (1983), Absence of Malice movie (1981), The Prince of Tides movie (1991), Close Encounters of the Third Kind movie (1977)).
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