Page 9: Historical Events In January - 09

1985  On January - 09 don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies   

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

1987  On January - 09 chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed   

1987  On this day in history new Nicaraguan constitution takes effect   

1987  Sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass on this day in history.   

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

1988  On this day in history english Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli   

1988  US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano on January - 09.   

1989  "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS on January - 09.   

1989  On this day in history 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  On January - 09 supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses   

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

1991  Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis on January - 09.   

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 January - 09.   

1993  On January - 09 alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies   

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  Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight on January - 09.   

1995  Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport on January - 09.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1998  On January - 09 anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title   

1998  Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes on January - 09.   

1998  Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned on January - 09.   

1998  On this day in history hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever   

1998  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 on this day in history.   

2005  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 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  On January - 09 birth of gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], pope (1621-23)   

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

1574  Christoph Buel, composer was born on January - 09.   

1620  Johann Weichmann, composer was born on January - 09.   

1624  Empress Meishō (d. 1696) was born on January - 09.   

1695  John E Loovens, lawyer was born on January - 09.   

1699  On January - 09 birth of robert J Pothier, French lawyer   

1728  On this day in history birth of thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)   

1150  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1283  Death of Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236) on January - 09.   

1499  On January - 09 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  On this day in history death of guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)   

1562  On January - 09 death of amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)   

1571  On this day in history death of nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)