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On This Day

• Friday, January 9, 2009
• Holidays
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• Birthdays
  • ♦ 1728  Thomas Warton
  • ♦ 1870  Joseph B. Strauss
  • ♦ 1901  Chic Young
  • ♦ 1904  George Balanchine
  • ♦ 1908  Simone de Beauvoir
  • ♦ 1913  Richard M. Nixon
  • ♦ 1914  Gypsy Rose Lee
  • ♦ 1935  Bob Denver
  • ♦ 1941  Joan Baez
  • ♦ 1941  Susannah York
  • ♦ 1944  Jimmy Page
  • ♦ 1951  Crystal Gayle
  • ♦ 1978  A.J. McLean
• Events
  • ♦ 1788 Conneticut becomes 5th state
  • ♦ 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes first balloon flight in North America
  • ♦ 1799 First income tax imposed, in England.
  • ♦ 1839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
  • ♦ 1839 Thomas Henderson measures first stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
  • ♦ 1843 Caroline Herschel, "first lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany
  • ♦ 1847 First San Francisco paper, "California Star", published.
  • ♦ 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
  • ♦ 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
• Reminders
  • No Reminders today