Historical Events In January - 09

1985  Don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies on this day in history.  

1986  On this day in history after 10 years of sales (and a lawsuit from rival Polaroid), Kodak discontinues its line of instant cameras.  

1987  On this day in history chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed  

1987  New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect on January - 09.  

1987  On this day in history sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass  

1987  Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81 on January - 09.  

1988  On January - 09 english Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli  

1988  US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano on this day in history.  

1989  On this day in history "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS  

1989  On January - 09 johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame  

1990  On this day in history 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit  

1990  Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses on this day in history.  

1990  On this day in history the space shuttle Columbia leaves earth on a ten-day mission to, among other things, retrieve a drifting satellite.  

1991  On this day in history baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis  

1991  Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame on this day in history.  

1992  Steve Brodie, actor (Desperate, Bodyguard), dies of cancer at 72 on this day in history.  

1993  Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies on January - 09.  

1994  Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points) on January - 09.  

1994  Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points) on January - 09.  

1995  On January - 09 british comedian Peter Cook dies in London at age 57.  

1995  On this day in history ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight  

1995  On this day in history worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport  

1997  Former Toronto Argonauts and LA Kings owner Bruce McNall sentenced to five years, 10 months in prison and ordered to repay $5 million for bank fraud on January - 09.  

1997  On January - 09 heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital  

1997  Twenty-nine people are killed when a Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on January - 09.  

1998  Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title on this day in history.  

1998  On January - 09 anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes  

1998  On this day in history decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned  

1998  On January - 09 hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever  

1998  On this day in history over 100 teams of linemen arrive from Detroit and other parts of the US to help clean up after the ice storm; 1.3 million homes still without electricity in Quebec and Eastern Ontario  

2005  On January - 09 mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president in the Palestinian election.2006 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since jun 7, 2001, closing at 11,011.90.  

2005  On January - 09 the same storm which pounded the US earlier in the month hit England and Scandinavia, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.  

2006  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since jun 7, 2001, closing at 11,011.90 on January - 09.  

2007  On January - 09 an AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.  

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1554  Gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], pope (1621-23) was born on this day in history.  

1571  Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621) was born on January - 09.  

1574  On January - 09 birth of christoph Buel, composer  

1620  Johann Weichmann, composer was born on this day in history.  

1624  On January - 09 birth of empress Meishō (d. 1696)  

1695  On January - 09 birth of john E Loovens, lawyer  

1699  Robert J Pothier, French lawyer was born on this day in history.  

1728  Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy) was born on this day in history.  

1150  On January - 09 death of emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.  

1282  Death of Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204) on January - 09.  

1283  On this day in history death of wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)  

1499  On this day in history johan Cicero, elector of (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43  

1514  On this day in history anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian, dies at 36  

1543  Death of Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491) on January - 09.  

1562  Death of Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514) on this day in history.  

1571  Death of Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510) on this day in history.