Page 9: Historical Events In January - 09

1985  Don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies on January - 09.   

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

1987  On January - 09 arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81   

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 this day in history.   

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

1990  64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit on January - 09.   

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

1990  On January - 09 the space shuttle Columbia leaves earth on a ten-day mission to, among other things, retrieve a drifting satellite.   

1991  On January - 09 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 January - 09.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1994  Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points) on this day in history.   

1995  British comedian Peter Cook dies in London at age 57 on this day in history.   

1995  Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight on this day in history.   

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

1997  On this day in history 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   

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

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

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

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

1624  Empress Meishō (d. 1696) was born on this day in history.   

1695  On this day in history birth of john E Loovens, lawyer   

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

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

1150  Death of Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état on this day in history.   

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

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

1499  Johan Cicero, elector of (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43 on this day in history.   

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

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