Major Events
- 1431 Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government
- 1760 Afghans defeat the Indian Maratha Empire in the Battle of Barari Ghat
- 1839 Louis Daguerre demonstrates his 'daguerreotype' photographic process to the French Academy of Science
- 1909 Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest southern latitude (88°23' south)
- 1941 6,000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania
- 2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
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Jan 9 in Film & TV
- 1959 TV western "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS
- 2002 29th American Music Awards: Janet Jackson and Lenny Kravitz win. Michael Jackson receives Artist of the Century award.
Jan 9 in Sport
Did You Know?
Carrie Chapman Catt
Karel Čapek
Simone de Beauvoir
Mehmet Ali Ağca
Rigoberta Menchú
Kate Middleton
Richard Nixon
Bob Denver
Nicola Peltz
Joan Baez
Jimmy Page
Crystal Gayle
Dave Matthews
Sergio García
Fun Fact About January 9
Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus in London
Famous Weddings
- 1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut's marriage to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester invalid
- 1987 Opera impresario Sir Rudolf Bing (85) weds Carroll Douglass (45); annulled in September, 1989
- 1988 English Earl of St Andrews George Windsor marries Canadian academic Sylvana Tomaselli
More January 9 Weddings
Napoleon III
Victor Emmanuel II
Katherine Mansfield
Albert Stevens
Jim Peters
Bob SagetArticles, Photos and Quiz
First Photograph of a Person
In the bottom left corner a man can be seen having his shoes shined on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris
January 9, 1839
Gallipoli: Guts, Glory and Defeat
The horrors of the First World War are encapsulated in the enduring names of its famous terrible battles, such as the Somme, Paschendale . . . and Gallipoli.
January 9, 1916
