9 Januar

The 9t o Januar is the 9t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 356 days ti come (357 in lowp years).

Events

1317: Coronation o Philip V o Fraunce

1788: Connecticut

1959: Site o the dam break in Spain

• 1317 - Coronation o Philip V o Fraunce/Philip II o Navarre.
• 1788 - Connecticut becomes the 5t state o the Unitit States.
• 1806 - A state funeral is held for Admiral Horatio Nelson in Lunnon.
• 1861 - Mississippi secedes frae the Unitit States.
• 1878 - Umberto I o Italy becomes Keeng.
• 1900 - The fitbaa club S.S. Lazio is foondit in Roum.
• 1909 - Ernest Shackleton haes tae turn back 180 kilometres frae the Sooth Pole.
• 1951 - The Unitit Naitions Headquarters in New York Ceety open.
• 1957 - Anthony Eden resigns as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1959 - The Vega de Tera reservoir dam break in Northwastren Spain kills ower 140 fowk.
• 1960 - Gamal Abdel Nasser opens the buildin wirk on the Aswan Dam in Egyp.
• 1992 - The Naitional Assembly o the Serb fowk in Bosnie an Herzegovinae declares the creation o the Republika Srpska.
• 1992 - Preses o the Unitit States, George H. W. Bush, haes the haingles an bowks on the Japanese Prime Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa.
• 2005 - Mahmoud Abbas is electit the Preses o the Palestinian Authority.
• 2006 - The population o Iceland offeecially reaches 300,000.
• 2007 - Steve Jobs presents the first iPhone.
• 2011 - Sooth Sudan holds a referendum in which a majority supports its unthirldom frae Sudan.
• 2011 - Iran Air Flicht 277 crashes in Northwastren Iran, killin 77 fowk.
• 2017 - Martin McGuinness propales his demission as Deputy First Meenister o Northren Ireland. The pouer-sharin govrenment collapses a week later.
• 2018 - The law legalisin same-sex mairiage in Australie taks effect.
• 2018 - North Korea agrees tae send a team tae the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Sooth Korea.
• 2018 - Mudslides in soothren Californie kill at least 20 fowk.
• 2021 - Sriwijaya Flicht 182 crashes intae the sea naur Jakarta, killin 62 fowk.

Births

Simone de Beauvoir

Catherine, Coontess o Strathearn

• 1554 – Pape Gregory XV (d. 1623)
• 1890 – Kurt Tucholsky, German jurnalist an writer (d. 1935)
• 1890 – Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
• 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer an philosopher (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, an politeecian, 37nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1994)
• 1920 – Clive Dunn, Inglis actor an sangster (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Thomas Brooke, 2nt Viscoont Alanbrooke (d. 1972)
• 1928 – Domenico Modugno, Italian sangster-sangwriter, actor, an politeecian (d. 1994)
• 1941 – Joan Baez, American sangster an activist
• 1944 – Jimmy Page, Inglis muisicker (Led Zeppelin)
• 1945 – Levon Ter-Petrossian, 1st Preses o Armenie
• 1951 – Michel Barnier, French politeecian
• 1955 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
• 1958 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkis murtherer
• 1959 – Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan activist
• 1965 – Haddaway, Trinidad-born sangster
• 1965 – Joely Richardson, Inglis actress
• 1970 – Lara Fabian, Belgian-Italian sangster-sangwriter an actress
• 1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican muisicker
• 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian fitbawer an manager
• 1982 – Catherine, Coontess o Strathearn
• 1987 – Paolo Nutini, Scots sangster-sangwriter an guitarist

Daiths

• 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathemateecian an philosopher (b. 1718)
• 1841 - John Gilchrist, Scots linguist, filologist an Indologist (b. 1759)
• 1873 - Napoleon III o Fraunce (b. 1808)
• 1878 - Victor Emmanuel II o Italy (b. 1820)
• 1886 - James Fergusson, Scots airchitectural historian (b. 1808)
• 1944 - Antanas Smetona, Preses o Lithuanie (b. 1874)
• 1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American economist an author (b. 1867)
• 1986 - Jimmy Adams, Scots gowfer (b. 1910)
• 2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scots writer (b. 1909)
• 2013 - James M. Buchanan, American economist (b. 1919)
• 2020 - Mike Resnik, American science fiction writer (b. 1942)

Halidays

• Martyrs' Day (Panama)
• St. Stephen's Day (Eastren Orthodox Kirk)