What are the important events that happened on January 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 9 is the 9th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 27, 2023 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,412,640 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneagon’ day.
Capricorn is the zodiac 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 32 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,036 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 9 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1788 –Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
- 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.
- 1861 –Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1878 –Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- 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.
- 1927 –A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
- 1941 –World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
- 1941 –World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
Who were born on January 9?
- 1848 –Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
- 1854 –Jennie Jerome, American socialite and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
- 1859 –Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947)
- 1898 –Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1947 –Ronnie Landfield, American artist
- 1957 –Bibie, Ghanaian singer
- 1968 –Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
- 1973 –Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician
- 1974 –Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer.
- 1986 –Jéferson, Brazilian footballer
Who died on January 9?
- 1571 –Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
- 1908 –Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
- 1946 –Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
- 1946 –Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
- 1984 –Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
- 1992 –Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
- 2000 –Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
- 2004 –Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
- 2008 –Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (b. 1949)
- 2008 –Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b. 1924)
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