Birthdates Which Occur on January 9:
1554 Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], pope (1621-23)
1574 Christoph Buel composer
1620 Johann Weichmann composer
1695 John E Loovens lawyer
1699 Robert J Pothier French lawyer
1728 Thomas Warton poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
1748 Stefan Paluselli composer
1803 Christopher Gustavus Memminger Secy Treas (Confederacy) died in 1888
1815 William Jackson composer
1816 John Palmer Usher Secy Int (Union) died in 1889
1820 Pavel Krizkovsky composer
1822 John Porter Hatch volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901
1829 Thomas William Robertson England, playwright (Caste)
1832 Esquire Maurits A de Savornin Lohman Dutch governor of Suriname
1839 John Knowles Paine Portland Maine, composer
1843 Christiaan A Ulder Cura‡ao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)
1851 Giuseppi Gallignani composer
and Luis Coloma Spanish jesuiet/writer (Peque¤eces, Boy)
1856 Stevan Mokranjac composer
1857 Henry B Fuller American writer (Under the Skylights)
1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt founder (League of Women Voters)
and Frederik Pijper Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries)
1866 Albert Baertsoen Flemish painter/etcher
1867 Jacques Urlus Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth)
1870 Joseph B Strauss civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1873 Hayyim Nahman Bialik R„di Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator
1879 John Broadus Watson behaviorist psychologist
1881 Giovanni Papini Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)
and Lascelles Abercrombie English poet/critic (Revaluations)
1890 Karel Capek Czech, writer (R U R); coined the word "robot"
and Kurt Tucholsky German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co)
1891 August Gailit Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor)
1894 Henryk Stazewski Polish abstract painter/graphic artist
1897 Luis Gianneo composer
1898 Gracie Fields [Stansfield], England, music hall/vaudeville performer
and Vilma Banky Budapest Hungary, silent screen actress (Eagle, Rebel)
19-- Kathryn Walker Phila Pa, actress (Beacon Hill)
and Margaret Klenck actress (One Life to Live)
and Melissa Morgan actress (Brittany-Young & Restless)
and Pat Dubar heavy metal rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
and Phillip Tanzini actor (Jeremy Hewitt-General Hospital)
1900 Joseph Frederick Wagner composer
1901 Chic Young cartoonist (Blondie)
1902 Jose Maria Escriv de Balaguer y Alb s Spanish priest (Opus Dei)
and Rudolph Bing opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1904 George Balanchine dancer/choreographer/ballet producer [NS=Jan 22]
1908 Simone de Beauvoir France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
1913 Richard Milhous Nixon (R) 37th pres (1968-74) (I am not a crook!)
1914 Derek Allhusen England, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1968)
and Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
and Kenny [Klook] Clarke Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)
1915 Anita Louise NYC, actress (My Friend Flicka)
and Fernando Lamas Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
and Les Paul rocker
1916 Vic Mizzy Bkln NY, orch leader (Don Rickles Show)
1917 Herbert Lom Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)
1921 Seymour Barab composer
1922 Ahmed S‚kou Tour‚ president of Guinea (1957-84)
and Har G Khorana India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968)
1924 Juli n B Coco Cura‡aos guitarist/bassist (Utrechts Symphony Orch)
1925 Lee Van Cleef NJ, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY)
1928 Domenico Modugno Italy, rocker (Polignano A Mare)
and Fernand J St Germain (Rep-D-RI, 1961- )
and Judith Krantz NYC, author (Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)
1931 Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
1933 Robert Garcia (Rep-D-NY, 1978- )
and Sonia Garmers [Justina], Cura‡ao, author (Dear Queen)
1934 Bart Starr NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
and Julian B Coco Antilles, guitarist/tutor (Princess Christina)
1935 Bob Denver New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
and Dick Enberg Mt Clemens Mich, sportscaster (Where's Huddles)
1938 Aad Kosto Dutch theologist/actor/asst secretary of Justice
1940 Barbara Buczek composer
and Jimmy Boyd McComb Mo, singer/actor (Howard-Bachelor Father)
1941 Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
and Susannah York London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1942 K Callan Dallas Tx, actress (Joe's World, Martha-Lois & Clark)
1943 Dick Yount rocker (Harpers Bizarre)
and Kenneth Kelley US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)
and Rob Hoeke Dutch pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed)
1944 Jimmy Page London, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
and Scott Engel vocalist (Walker Brothers-Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore)
1945 Harun Farocki
1946 Leo Gullotta actor (Sinbad of the 7 Seas)
1948 Bill Cowsill Newport RI, rock guitarist/vocals (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
and Paul King rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
and William Cowsill rocker (Cowsills-Hair)
1950 David Johansen [Buster Poindexter], NY, singer (Hot! Hot! Hot!)
1951 Crystal Gayle Ky, country singer (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue)
and Rosalyn Kind Bkln, singer (« sister of Barbra Streisand)
1952 Eveline L Herfkens Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1954 Lance Hoppens rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me)
1956 Kimberly Beck Hilton Glendale Calif, actress (Kim-Peyton Place)
1962 Phil Lewis London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1965 [Tyrone] Muggsy Bogues NBA guard (Washington Bullets)
1971 Elizabeth Punsalan Syracuse NY, ice dancer (Olympics-1994)
1973 Ronald Hamming soccer player (FC Groningen)
Deaths Which Occured January 9:
1499 Johan Cicero monarch (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43
1514 Anna de Bretagne wife of Maximilian, dies at 36
1677 Aernout "Aert" Down cartoonist/landscape painter, dies at about 73
1679 Werner Fabricius composer, dies at 45
1828 Pieter It Hen journalist/patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
1843 Caroline Herschel "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany
1849 John Kops vicar, dies at 83
1853 Juan N Gallego Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at 75
1854 Filippo Traetta [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77
1863 Ferdinand Huber composer, dies at 71
1878 Victor Emmanuel II king of Sard (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1879 Don Joaquin BF Espartero duke of Vitoria, dies
1886 Jakob Eduard Schmolzer composer, dies at 73
1893 Mohara Arabic ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten
1902 Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns Belgian lawyer/foreign minister, dies at 66
1908 Abraham Goldfaden Yiddish songwriter, dies
1911 Edwin Arthur Jones composer, dies at 58
1923 Katherine Mansfield Brits writer (Dove's Nest), dies
1927 Houston S Chamberlain British/German race theorist, dies
1931 Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer] French writer (La fille perdue), dies
1936 John Gilbert actor (Love, Downstairs), dies at 40
1939 Johann Strauss Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72
1941 Ko Boezeman Dutch resistance fighter
1943 Robin G Collingwood English philosopher (Novel Britain), dies
1946 Countee Cullen US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42
1947 Karl Mannheim sociologist (Diagnosis of our time), dies at 53
Lambertus Zijl sculptor (Trade scholarship), Amsterdam, dies at 80
1949 Amilcare Zanella composer, dies at 75
1953 Hans Aanrud Norse author (Storken), dies at 89
1957 Mary Carr Moore composer, dies at 83
1958 Paul Fechter German writer/historian (Um der Wende der Zeit), dies
1959 Paul Malengreau composer, dies at 71
1962 Leroy B Shield US pianist (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68
1966 Haro Levoni Step'anyan composer, dies at 68
1968 Kokichi Tsuburaya Jap marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide
Louis-Fran‡ois-Marie Aubert composer, dies at 90
1969 Ladislav Vycpalek composer, dies at 86
1972 Ted Shawn US dancer, dies at 80
1975 John Slater actor (Deadlock, 3 on a Spree), dies at 59
Pierre Fresnay French actor (Monsieur Vincent), dies at 77
1977 Alexey Kozlovsky composer, dies at 71
Hal Sawyer TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62
1979 Avery Claflin composer, dies at 80
Sara Carter vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80
1981 Kazimierz Serocki composer, dies at 58
1982 Paul Lynde actor (Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched), dies at 55
1984 Wolfgang Staudte German director (Ciske de Rat), dies
1987 Arthur Lake actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
1992 Steve Brodie actor (Desperate, Bodyguard), dies of cancer at 72
1993 Alois Brunner German/Syrian Hauptsturmfhrer, dies
Felix Grucci fireworks expert, dies at 87 of Alzheimer's disease
1995 Peter Cook English comic/actor (Bedazzled), dies at 57
Souphanouvong [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85
Holidays Which Occur January 9:
Connecticut Ratification Day (1788)
Panam , Canal Zone Martyrs' Day/D¡a de los M rtires
Religious Observances on January 9:
ARM St Polyeuctus & St Nearchus, martyrs
RC Feast of St Adrian
RC Julianus, martyr
313 RC Commemoration of St Julian the Hospitaller & companions
Things to Remember for January 9:
Flowers-carnation & snowdrop Gem-garnet
National Soup-National Egg Month-National Hobby Month
11 Days Astrological sign: Capricorn
[Ancient Rome] (a d v Id Jan)
[Sweden] Gunnar name day
2001 Full moon/total eclipse of the moon
Highlights in History Which Occur January 9:
1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
1317 Phillips V, the tall, crowned king of France
1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1718 France declares war on Spain
1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
1792 Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
and Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
1799 1st income tax imposed, in England
1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagoni‰
1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
and Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1847 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
1848 1st commercial bank in SF established
and People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
1854 Astor Library opens in NYC
1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon Calif
1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
and Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1863 -Jan 11th) Battle of Arkansas Post, AK (Ft Hindman)
1866 Fisk University establishes
1879 Cheyennes prisioners revolt at Dull Knife Ft Robinson
and Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1894 Georges Feydeaus' "Un … la Patte," premieres in Paris
1901 M Wolf discovers asteroid #464 Megaira & #467 Laura
1903 AL Baltimore baseball team bought for $18,000, moves to NYC (Yanks)
and Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
and Wind Cave National Park, SD established
1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)
1908 French Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
and Muir Woods National Monument, Calif established
1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88ø23' south
1912 US marines invade Honduras
1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF
1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
and Rotterdam metal strike ends
1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
1925 German Postal Minister A H”fle dismissed due to corruption
1927 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
and Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in NYC
1929 BG DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in NYC
and KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1934 L Volta discovers asteroid #1332 Marconi
1936 No‰l Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London
and Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1937 A Patry discovers asteroid #3142 Kilopi
and Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
and Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in NYC
and Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1424 Sundmania
1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
and J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in NYC
1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
and Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1942 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer
and US Joint Chiefs of Staff was created
1943 Japanese management in Java limits sale of motorcars
1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF
1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres
1951 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3383 Koyama
and Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1952 Belgian Pholien govt resigns
and Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game
and Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
1954 -87øF (-66øC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
and Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
and Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
1956 Samir el-Rifai forms govt in Jordan
1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
and Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
and Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist paper "Truth"
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2391 Tomita
and Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
and Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
and Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
and Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
and NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
1964 Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 Polish govt refuses Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond
and NFL New Orleans franchise takes name "Saints"
1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
1969 1st trial flight of Concorde
1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving's bio is a fake
and Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
and Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
1977 Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders-32, Minnesota Vikings-14 in Pasadena
1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
and R M West discovers asteroid #2117 Danmark
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
and High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
and Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing
an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1981 Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal
1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
and Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
1983 B A Skiff discovers asteroids #3140, #3505 & #3684
and British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
and EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
and John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
1986 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
and New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
and Sir Rudolf Bing (of NY Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston
and English earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
and Boston Celtics worst ¬ ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
and Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning
on sexually oriented businesses
1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
1992 Asteroid 1992AD discovered 4.8 billion km from Sun
1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282)
and Rintje Ritsma skates world record 156.201 points
1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
and Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
1953 Korean ferryboat 'Chang Tyong-Ho' sank off Pusan with the
loss of 249 lives.
1959 Dam across the Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains.
Noise warns residents of Rivaldelago, but 135 still die.
Your Special Reminders for January 9:
1937 64øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1968 -1øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 9th day of year with 356 remaining (Numerology = 1)
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