January 9 in History

Historical Events on January 9

1431 Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.

1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.

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

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

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

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

1991 Representatives 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.

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

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

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Famous Birthdays on January 9

1913 Richard Nixon

1959 Mark Martin

1967 Matt Bevin

1982 Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

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Famous Deaths on January 9

1324 Marco Polo

1873 Napoleon III

1927 Houston Stewart Chamberlain

2013 James M. Buchanan

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