Page 9: Historical Events In January - 09

1985  Don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies on this day in history.   

1986  After 10 years of sales (and a lawsuit from rival Polaroid), Kodak discontinues its line of instant cameras on January - 09.   

1987  On this day in history chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed   

1987  New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect on January - 09.   

1987  On January - 09 sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass   

1987  Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81 on January - 09.   

1988  English Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli on this day in history.   

1988  US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano on January - 09.   

1989  On January - 09 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS   

1989  Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame on January - 09.   

1990  On this day in history 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit   

1990  Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses on this day in history.   

1990  On this day in history the space shuttle Columbia leaves earth on a ten-day mission to, among other things, retrieve a drifting satellite.   

1991  On January - 09 baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis   

1991  On January - 09 baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame   

1992  Steve Brodie, actor (Desperate, Bodyguard), dies of cancer at 72 on January - 09.   

1993  On this day in history alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies   

1994  On this day in history gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points)   

1994  On January - 09 rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)   

1995  British comedian Peter Cook dies in London at age 57 on this day in history.   

1995  Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight on January - 09.   

1995  Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport on January - 09.   

1997  On this day in history former Toronto Argonauts and LA Kings owner Bruce McNall sentenced to five years, 10 months in prison and ordered to repay $5 million for bank fraud   

1997  On this day in history heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital   

1997  Twenty-nine people are killed when a Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on this day in history.   

1998  Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title on January - 09.   

1998  On this day in history anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes   

1998  Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned on January - 09.   

1998  Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever on this day in history.   

1998  Over 100 teams of linemen arrive from Detroit and other parts of the US to help clean up after the ice storm; 1.3 million homes still without electricity in Quebec and Eastern Ontario on January - 09.   

2005  On this day in history mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president in the Palestinian election.2006 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since jun 7, 2001, closing at 11,011.90.   

2005  On this day in history the same storm which pounded the US earlier in the month hit England and Scandinavia, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.   

2006  On January - 09 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since jun 7, 2001, closing at 11,011.90.   

2007  On January - 09 an AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.   

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1554  On this day in history birth of gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], pope (1621-23)   

1571  Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621) was born on this day in history.   

1574  Christoph Buel, composer was born on January - 09.   

1620  On January - 09 birth of johann Weichmann, composer   

1624  On this day in history birth of empress Meishō (d. 1696)   

1695  John E Loovens, lawyer was born on January - 09.   

1699  Robert J Pothier, French lawyer was born on this day in history.   

1728  On January - 09 birth of thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)   

1150  On January - 09 death of emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.   

1282  On this day in history death of abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)   

1283  On this day in history death of wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)   

1499  On this day in history johan Cicero, elector of (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43   

1514  Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian, dies at 36 on January - 09.   

1543  On this day in history death of guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)   

1562  On this day in history death of amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)   

1571  Death of Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510) on this day in history.