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January 9 - Today in History

  1. 2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone
  2. 2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President
  3. 1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
  4. 1998 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes
  5. 1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
  6. 1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
  7. 1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
  8. 1995 Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight
  9. 1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
  10. 1994 14th United NegrNumbered Listo College Fund raises $11,000,000
  11. 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
  12. 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
  13. 1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
  14. 1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
  15. 1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
  16. 1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
  17. 1990 64th U.S. manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
  18. 1990 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78
  19. 1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
  20. 1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
  21. 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
  22. 1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
  23. 1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston
  24. 1988 English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
  25. 1988 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
  26. 1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
  27. 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
  28. 1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
  29. 1986 New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
  30. 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
  31. 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
  32. 1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
  33. 1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
  34. 1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
  35. 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855
  36. 1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
  37. 1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
  38. 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  39. 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
  40. 1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
  41. 1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
  42. 1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
  43. 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
  44. 1977 "Porgy and Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 122 performances
  45. 1977 Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR
  46. 1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
  47. 1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
  48. 1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
  49. 1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
  50. 1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
  51. 1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
  52. 1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake
  53. 1972 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
  54. 1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
  55. 1971 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City after 19 perf
  56. 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
  57. 1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England
  58. 1968 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
  59. 1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
  60. 1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep. Julian Bond
  61. 1967 NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints"
  62. 1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
  63. 1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
  64. 1964 Anti-U.S. rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
  65. 1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
  66. 1962 Mister M (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
  67. 1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
  68. 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  69. 1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St. Paul territory
  70. 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
  71. 1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
  72. 1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
  73. 1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ
  74. 1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
  75. 1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
  76. 1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
  77. 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
  78. 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
  79. 1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
  80. 1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
  81. 1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
  82. 1954 -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
  83. 1954 Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
  84. 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams
  85. 1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game
  86. 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
  87. 1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
  88. 1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
  89. 1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
  90. 1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
  91. 1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds
  92. 1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
  93. 1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 148 performances
  94. 1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF
  95. 1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 77 performances
  96. 1945 U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
  97. 1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars
  98. 1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
  99. 1942 U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created
  100. 1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
  101. 1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
  102. 1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
  103. 1940 J Thurber and E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in New York City
  104. 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians
  105. 1937 Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in New York City
  106. 1936 Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London
  107. 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army
  108. 1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
  109. 1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
  110. 1929 BG DeSylva and Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in New York City
  111. 1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California begins radio transmissions
  112. 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in New York City
  113. 1927 Dmitri Shostakovich' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
  114. 1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
  115. 1925 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
  116. 1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
  117. 1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions
  118. 1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends
  119. 1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF
  120. 1912 U.S. Marines invade Honduras
  121. 1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south
  122. 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
  123. 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
  124. 1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
  125. 1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY
  126. 1903 Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace
  127. 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established
  128. 1903 Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 and move it to New York City (Yankees)
  129. 1901 NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605
  130. 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
  131. 1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris
  132. 1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
  133. 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
  134. 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
  135. 1866 Fisk University establishes
  136. 1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
  137. 1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
  138. 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon California
  139. 1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
  140. 1854 Astor Library opens in New York City
  141. 1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established
  142. 1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
  143. 1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
  144. 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
  145. 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
  146. 1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
  147. 1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
  148. 1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
  149. 1799 Income Tax introduced in UK
  150. 1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Philadelphia
  151. 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
  152. 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
  153. 1792 Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
  154. 1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
  155. 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
  156. 1718 France declares war on Spain
  157. 1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
  158. 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
  159. 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
  160. 1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
  161. 1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
  162. 1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
  163. 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
  164. 1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
  165. 1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
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