About January 9
January 9, 2025 is the 9th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 20 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 9
- 475 –Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
- 1127 –Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty.
- 1349 –The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
- 1760 –Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
- 1768 –In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
- 1788 –Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
- 1816 –Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 1822 –The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
- 1858 –Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
- 1863 –American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
- 1880 –The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
- 1914 –Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
- 1927 –A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
- 1945 –World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
- 1964 –Martyrs’ Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
- 1965 –The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
- 1991 –Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try and find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- 1992 –The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
- 1996 –First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighbouring Republic of Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
- 2004 –An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
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