Page 9: 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  Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed on this day in history.   

1987  New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect on this day in history.   

1987  Sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass on January - 09.   

1987  Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1988  English Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli on this day in history.   

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

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

1989  Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame on January - 09.   

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  The space shuttle Columbia leaves earth on a ten-day mission to, among other things, retrieve a drifting satellite on January - 09.   

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

1991  On January - 09 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  Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points) on January - 09.   

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

1995  British comedian Peter Cook dies in London at age 57 on January - 09.   

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

1995  Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title on January - 09.   

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

1998  On January - 09 decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned   

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 January - 09.   

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

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history death of emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.   

1282  On January - 09 death of abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)   

1283  On January - 09 death of wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)   

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

1514  Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian, dies at 36 on this day in history.   

1543  On January - 09 death of guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)   

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

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