Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: January 9
January 9, 2024 is the 9th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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
- 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.
- 1857 –The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
- 1880 –The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
- 1903 –Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
- 1909 –Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nmi from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
- 1947 –Elizabeth “Betty” Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
- 1960 –President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
- 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.
Who were born on January 9?
- 1811 –Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
- 1896 –Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
- 1898 –Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1916 –Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (d. 2009)
- 1921 –Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
- 1929 –Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
- 1944 –Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
- 1972 –Mat Hoffman, professional BMX rider
- 1978 –Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
- 1979 –Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
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