Historical Events In January - 09

1985  On this day in history 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 January - 09.  

1987  Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed on January - 09.  

1987  New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect on January - 09.  

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

1987  On this day in history arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81  

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

1988  On January - 09 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano  

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

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

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

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 this day in history.  

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

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

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  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  On this day in history heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital  

1997  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1998  Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned on this day in history.  

1998  On January - 09 hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever  

1998  On January - 09 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  

2005  On this day in history 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.  

2005  On this day in history 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 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  On January - 09 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 January - 09 birth of johann Weichmann, composer  

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

1695  On January - 09 birth of john E Loovens, lawyer  

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

1728  Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy) was born on January - 09.  

1150  Death of Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état on January - 09.  

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 this day in history.  

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  Death of Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491) on January - 09.  

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

1571  Death of Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510) on this day in history.