What are the important events that happened on January 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 9 is the 9th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 27, 2023 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,412,640 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 32 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,036 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 9 Historical Events
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on January 9?
- 1881 –Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
- 1935 –Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
- 1942 –Judy Malloy, American hypertext fiction pioneer and artist
- 1951 –M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
- 1959 –Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1965 –Eric Erlandson, American musician
- 1971 –Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
- 1972 –Jay Powell, baseball player
- 1976 –Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
- 1989 –Michael Beasley, American basketball player
Who died on January 9?
- 1757 –Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
- 1800 –Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
- 1848 –Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
- 1876 –Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
- 1918 –Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
- 1927 –Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
- 1971 –Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
- 1975 –Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
- 1997 –Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
- 2000 –Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
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