Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 9
This is a list of selected January 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Louis Daguerre, inventor of the Daguerreotype process of photography -
Louis Daguerre -
King Umberto I of Italy -
Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty -
Eric Marshall, Frank Wild and Ernest Shackleton at their Farthest South latitude, 88°23'S -
Mahmoud Abbas
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines | refimprove |
| Martyrs' Day in Panama (1964) | {{cleanup}} |
| Republic Day in Republika Srpska (1992) | unreferenced sections, needs expansion |
| 1127 – Invading Jin soldiers besieged and sacked Kaifeng and abducted Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty of China. | refimprove section; Song Dynasty featured on February 4 |
| 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre. | multiple issues |
| 1861 – The civilian ship Star of the West was fired upon as it attempted to send supplies and reinforcements to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor before the American Civil War. | {{more footnotes}} |
| 1878 – Umberto I became King of Italy following the death of his father Victor Emmanuel II. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1916 – First World War: The last British troops evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevailed over a joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul at the Battle of Gallipoli. | featured on April 25 |
| 1923 – The autogyro, a type of rotorcraft invented by civil engineer and pilot Juan de la Cierva, made its first successful flight at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid, Spain. | autogyro: refimprove sections; de la Cierva: refimprove |
| 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004. | section needs copyediting |
Eligible
- 1857 – A 7.9 Mw earthquake ruptured part of the San Andreas Fault in California and was felt as far east as Las Vegas.
- 1917 – First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border in present-day Rafah.
- 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.
- 1972 – The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest of any team in American professional sports.
- 1972 – Seawise University, formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner which sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the Cunard White Star Line, was destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
- 1981 – U.S. Representative Raymond F. Lederer was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for his role in the Abscam scandal, but continued to serve his term for three more months.
- 2004 – Twenty-eight illegal Albanian emigrants died when their inflatable boat stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy.
- 2011 – Flying in poor weather conditions, Iran Air Flight 277 crashed near Urmia Airport, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, killing 77 of the 105 people on board.
Notes
- RMS Queen Mary 2 appears on January 8, so RMS Queen Elizabeth should not appear in the same year
January 9: St. Stephen's Day (Eastern Christianity)
- 475 – Basiliscus became Byzantine Emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople.
- 1816 – Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp (examples pictured), a safety lamp containing a candle for use in coal mines.
- 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition, planted the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km) from the South Pole, the furthest south anyone had ever reached at that time.
- 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched raids in the city of Kizlyar, Republic of Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.