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.
- 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.
- 1788 –Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
- 1793 –Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
- 1806 –Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
- 1816 –Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 1861 –Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1880 –The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
- 1894 –New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 1903 –Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
- 1905 –According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
- 1909 –Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nmi from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
- 1918 –Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
- 1923 –Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 1923 –Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
- 1927 –A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
- 1941 –World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
- 1947 –Elizabeth “Betty” Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
- 1992 –The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
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