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
- 1431 –Judges’ investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
- 1760 –Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
- 1806 –Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
- 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.
- 1857 –The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
- 1858 –Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
- 1861 –Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1863 –American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
- 1878 –Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- 1894 –New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 1916 –World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
- 1921 –Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 –President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
- 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.
- 2005 –Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
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