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 January - 09 chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed  

1987  On January - 09 new Nicaraguan constitution takes effect  

1987  On January - 09 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 this day in history english Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli  

1988  On this day in history uS male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano  

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 January - 09 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  On this day in history baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis  

1991  On this day in history baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame  

1992  On January - 09 steve Brodie, actor (Desperate, Bodyguard), dies of cancer at 72  

1993  Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies on this day in history.  

1994  On January - 09 gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points)  

1994  On January - 09 rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)  

1995  On this day in history british comedian Peter Cook dies in London at age 57.  

1995  On January - 09 ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight  

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  Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital on this day in history.  

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

1998  On this day in history 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  Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever on this day in history.  

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 January - 09.  

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

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.  

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

1571  On this day in history birth of karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)  

1574  On this day in history birth of christoph Buel, composer  

1620  On this day in history birth of johann Weichmann, composer  

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

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

1699  Robert J Pothier, French lawyer was born on January - 09.  

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  Death of Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236) on this day in history.  

1499  Johan Cicero, elector of (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43 on January - 09.  

1514  On January - 09 anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian, dies at 36  

1543  Death of Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491) on this day in history.  

1562  Death of Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514) on January - 09.  

1571  On January - 09 death of nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)