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Day Of The Week: January 9
January 9, 2025 is the 9th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 9
- 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.
- 1768 –In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
- 1839 –The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
- 1861 –Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1863 –American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
- 1996 –First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighbouring Republic of Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
- 2005 –Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
Who were born on January 9?
- 1685 –Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
- 1823 –Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
- 1856 –Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
- 1898 –Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
- 1948 –Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
- 1957 –Bibie, Ghanaian singer
- 1959 –Mark Martin, American race car driver
- 1967 –Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
- 1967 –Steve Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
- 1973 –Angela Bettis, American actress
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