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This day in history: 9 January

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373 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 9 January.
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2021: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Adrian of Canterbury

Christian feast day: Berhtwald

Christian feast day: Blessed Alix Le Clerc

Christian feast day: Blessed Giulia della Rena

Christian feast day: Feast of the Black Nazarene (Manila, Philippines)

Christian feast day: January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Julia Chester Emery (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: Stephen (old calendar Eastern Orthodox)

Day of Republika Srpska (Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, result of 2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum) (note: not celebrated and disputed in wider Bosnia and Herzegovina, having been declared unconstitutional i

Martyrs' Day (Panama)

Non-Resident Indian Day (India)

Start of Hōonkō (Nishi Honganji) January 9–16 (Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism)

Events

2021Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.

2017Mont-Libre Agile Learning Centre, the province of Quebec's first alternative schooling democratic learning centre to support homeschooled youth, opens in the city of Montreal.

2015A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.

2015The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.

2014An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.

2011Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, in icy conditions, killing 78 people.

2007Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.

2005Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.

2005The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.

2004An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history.

2003TANS Perú Flight 222 crashes on approach to Chachapoyas Airport in Chachapoyas, Peru, killing 46 people.

1997Comair Flight 3272 crashes in Raisinville Township in Monroe County, Michigan, killing 29 people.

1996First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilian

1992The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.

1992The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.

1991Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

1964Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.

1962Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, then known as the "Advanced Saturn", to carry human beings to the Moon.

1961British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland spy ring in London.

1960President 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.

1959The Vega de Tera dam fails, triggering a disastrous flood that nearly destroys the town of Ribadelago and kills 144 residents.

1957British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.

1945World War II: The Sixth United States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf.

1941World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.

1939The Kingdom of Italy would officially the coastal areas of its Colony of Libya as an integral part of the country itself, becoming the nation's Fourth Shore.

1927A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.

1923Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.

1923Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.

1921Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.

1920Ukrainian War of Independence: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee outlaws the Makhnovshchina by decree, igniting the Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict.

1918Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.

1917World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.

1916World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.

1914The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.

1909Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.

1903Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.

1878Umberto I becomes King of Italy.

1861American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina.

1861Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.

1858British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong.

Born on this day

2006Sarah Toscano, Italian singer-songwriter and actress

2004Souhardya De, Indian author and columnist

2003Sangiovanni, Italian singer-songwriter

2001Eric García, Spanish footballer

2001Peter Mamouzelos, Australian rugby league player

2001Zeke Nnaji, American basketball player

2000Luka Šamanić, Croatian basketball player

1998Brent Rivera, American social media personality and actor

1998Kerris Dorsey, American actress

1996Vítek Vaněček, Czech ice hockey player

1995Braden Hamlin-Uele, New Zealand rugby league player

1995Dominik Livaković, Croatian football goalkeeper

1995Nicola Peltz, American actress

1994Radek Faksa, Czech ice hockey player

1993Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete

1993Marcus Peters, American football player

1992Jack Campbell, American ice hockey player

1992Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer

1992Terrence Jones, American basketball player

1991Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter

1991Ruby Soho, American wrestler

1989Chris Sandow, Australian rugby league player

1989Haris Sohail, Pakistani cricketer

1989Michael Beasley, American basketball player

1989Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress

1989Samardo Samuels, Jamaican-American basketball player

1989Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete

1988Lee Yeon-hee, South Korean actress

1987Jami Puustinen, Finnish footballer

1987Lucas Leiva, Brazilian footballer

1987Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1986Amanda Mynhardt, South African netball player

1986Jéferson Gomes, Brazilian footballer

1986Raphael Diaz, Swiss ice hockey player

1985Juan Francisco Torres, Spanish footballer

1982Catherine, Princess of Wales

1982Sharrod Ford, American basketball player

1981Ebi Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager

1980Édgar Álvarez, Honduran footballer

1980Francisco Pavón, Spanish footballer

Died on this day

2025Black Bart, American professional wrestler (born 1948)

2024Rashid Khan, Indian classical musician (born 1968)

2023Séamus Begley, Irish accordion player, fiddler and Irish traditional musician (born 1949)

2022Bob Saget, American comedian, actor, and television host (born 1956)

2022Maria Ewing, American opera singer (born 1950)

2021John Reilly, American actor (born 1934)

2019Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (born 1944)

2019Verna Bloom, American actress (born 1938)

2018Kato Ottio, Papua New Guinean rugby league player (born 1994)

2017Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist (born 1925)

2016Angus Scrimm, American actor and author (born 1926)

2016John Harvard, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (born 1938)

2015Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Sarawak (born 1928)

2015Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (born 1946)

2015Michel Jeury, French author (born 1934)

2015Roy Tarpley, American basketball player (born 1964)

2014Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (born 1934)

2014Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)

2014Josep Maria Castellet, Spanish poet and critic (born 1926)

2014Paul du Toit, South African painter and sculptor (born 1965)

2013Brigitte Askonas, Austrian-English immunologist and academic (born 1923)

2013James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)

2013John Wise, Canadian farmer and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1935)

2013Robert L. Rock, American businessman and politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (born 1927)

2012Augusto Gansser-Biaggi, Swiss geologist and academic (born 1910)

2012Brian Curvis, Welsh boxer (born 1937)

2012László Szekeres, Hungarian physician and academic (born 1921)

2012Malam Bacai Sanhá, Guinea-Bissau politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1947)

2012William G. Roll, German-American psychologist and parapsychologist (born 1926)

2011Makinti Napanangka, Australian painter (born 1930)

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