Historical Events In January - 09

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

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

1987  On this day in history new Nicaraguan constitution takes effect  

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  On January - 09 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano  

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

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

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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 January - 09.  

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

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  On this day in history steve Brodie, actor (Desperate, Bodyguard), dies of cancer at 72  

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

1995  On January - 09 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  Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital on January - 09.  

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 January - 09.  

1998  Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes on this day in history.  

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 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 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 this day in history.  

1624  On this day in history birth of empress Meishō (d. 1696)  

1695  John E Loovens, lawyer was born on this day in history.  

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  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 January - 09.  

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

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

1543  On this day in history death of guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)  

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 January - 09.