Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 9
This is a list of selected January 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Louis Daguerre, inventor of the Daguerreotype process of photography -
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King Umberto I of Italy -
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Mahmoud Abbas -
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Raymond Lederer
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Saint Stephen's Day (Eastern Christianity) | refimprove |
| Feast of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines | refimprove sections |
| Martyrs' Day in Panama (1964) | refimprove |
| Republic Day in Republika Srpska (1992) | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1127 – Invading Jin soldiers besieged and sacked Kaifeng and abducted Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty of China. | refimprove section; Song Dynasty featured on February 4 |
| 1816 – Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp, a safety lamp containing a candle for use in coal mines. | refimprove |
| 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre. | refimprove section |
| 1861 – The civilian ship Star of the West was fired upon as it attempted to send supplies and reinforcements to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor before the American Civil War. | refimprove section |
| 1878 – Umberto I became King of Italy following the death of his father Victor Emmanuel II. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1916 – First World War: The last British troops evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevailed over a joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul at the Battle of Gallipoli. | featured on April 25 |
| 1923 – The autogyro, a type of rotorcraft invented by civil engineer and pilot Juan de la Cierva, made its first successful flight at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid, Spain. | autogyro: refimprove sections; de la Cierva: refimprove |
| 2004 – Twenty-eight illegal Albanian emigrants died when their inflatable boat stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas was elected as President of the Palestinian National Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004. | External links |
Eligible
- 1857 – An earthquake registering 7.9 Mw ruptured part of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California.
- 1972 – The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest of any team in American professional sports.
- 1972 – Seawise University, formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner that sailed the Atlantic for Cunard Line, caught fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
- 1981 – U.S. representative Raymond Lederer was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for his role in the Abscam scandal, but continued to serve his term for three more months.
- 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- 1992 – Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12, generally considered the first definitive detection of exoplanets.
- 2015 – Contaminated beer served at a funeral in Tete Province, Mozambique, killed 75 people and made at least 230 others ill.
- Born/died: | William Dugard |b|1606| Leonard Holliday |d|1612| Lady Randolph Churchill |b|1854| Carrie Chapman Catt |b|1859| Samuel Gridley Howe |d|1876| Joseph Parker |b|1992| Lei Jieqiong |d|2011| Brigitte Askonas |d|2013
Notes
- RMS Queen Mary 2 appears on January 8, so RMS Queen Elizabeth should not appear in the same year
- 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition, planted the British flag (pictured) 97.5 nautical miles (180.6 km; 112.2 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest south explorers had reached at the time.
- 1917 – First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border in present-day Rafah.
- 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched raids in the city of Kizlyar, Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
- 2011 – In poor weather conditions, Iran Air Flight 277 crashed near Urmia Airport, Iran, killing 78 people.
- Caleb Strong (b. 1745)
- Thomas William Robertson (b. 1829)
- Makinti Napanangka (d. 2011)