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09 January, 2007
An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.
09 January, 2006
The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
09 January, 2005
The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.
09 January, 2005
Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
09 January, 2002
The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
09 January, 2001
Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, is launched.
09 January, 1997
A Comair Embraer EMB 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro Airport, killing 29 people.
09 January, 1991
The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
09 January, 1986
After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
09 January, 1972
The RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
09 January, 1968
The only known snowfall in Mexico City occurs; additional snow falls on January 10 and 11.
09 January, 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.
09 January, 1951
The United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
09 January, 1947
Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
09 January, 1945
The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
09 January, 1941
First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
09 January, 1941
World War II: The Greek Triton (S.112) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
09 January, 1923
Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
09 January, 1917
World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
09 January, 1916
The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated.
09 January, 1914
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. is founded on the campus of Howard University.
09 January, 1905
According to the Julian Calendar which was 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.
09 January, 1903
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
09 January, 1900
The S.S. Lazio is founded in Rome, Italy.
09 January, 1894
New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
09 January, 1882
Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York City.
09 January, 1880
The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
09 January, 1878
Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
09 January, 1863
American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman occurs in Arkansas.
09 January, 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".
09 January, 1861
Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
09 January, 1858
Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
09 January, 1857
The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
09 January, 1839
The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
09 January, 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.
09 January, 1816
Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
09 January, 1806
Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Pauls Cathedral.
09 January, 1799
British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.
09 January, 1793
Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
09 January, 1788
Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
09 January, 1768
Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London.
09 January, 1760
Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
09 January, 1431
Judges investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
09 January, 1349
The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, were rounded up and incinerated.
09 January, 475
Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.

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