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 9^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 27, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,939,680 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 20 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 4,402 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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.
• 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.
• 1816 –
  Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1863 –
  American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
• 1894 –
  New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 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.
• 1947 –
  Elizabeth “Betty” Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
• 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.
• 2004 –
  An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.

Who were born on January 9?

• 1856 –
  Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
• 1868 –
  S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
• 1890 –
  Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
• 1909 –
  Patrick Peyton, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1992)
• 1915 –
  Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
• 1934 –
  Bart Starr, American football player
• 1938 –
  Stuart Woods, American novelist
• 1952 –
  Hugh Bayley, British politician
• 1953 –
  Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist.
• 1971 –
  Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player

Who died on January 9?

• 1757 –
  Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
• 1908 –
  Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
• 1911 –
  Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
• 1945 –
  Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
• 1946 –
  Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
• 1947 –
  Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
• 1960 –
  Elsie J. Oxenham, British children’s author (b. 1880)
• 1975 –
  Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
• 2000 –
  Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
• 2009 –
  Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (b. 1987)