About 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 this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 20 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 9
- 1760 –Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
- 1768 –In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
- 1788 –Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
- 1806 –Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The “Star of the West” incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the “First Shots of the American Civil War”.
- 1861 –Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1894 –New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 1917 –World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- 1918 –Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
- 1923 –Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
- 1945 –World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
- 1964 –Martyrs’ Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
- 1965 –The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
- 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.
- 1992 –The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
- 2005 –Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
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