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January 9, 2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone January 9, 2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President January 9, 1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title January 9, 1998 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 mins January 9, 1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned January 9, 1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever January 9, 1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital January 9, 1995 Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight January 9, 1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport January 9, 1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000 January 9, 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts) January 9, 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points) January 9, 1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33) January 9, 1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis January 9, 1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame January 9, 1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games January 9, 1990 64th U.S. manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit January 9, 1990 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78 January 9, 1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame January 9, 1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses January 9, 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS January 9, 1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame January 9, 1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston January 9, 1988 English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli January 9, 1988 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano January 9, 1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed January 9, 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect January 9, 1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass January 9, 1986 New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins January 9, 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out January 9, 1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession January 9, 1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh January 9, 1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me" January 9, 1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands January 9, 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855 January 9, 1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game January 9, 1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal January 9, 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia January 9, 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin January 9, 1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws January 9, 1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste" January 9, 1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses January 9, 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established January 9, 1977 "Porgy and Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 122 performances January 9, 1977 Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR January 9, 1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot January 9, 1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts January 9, 1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK January 9, 1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike January 9, 1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes January 9, 1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon January 9, 1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake January 9, 1972 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational January 9, 1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire January 9, 1971 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City after 19 perf January 9, 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted January 9, 1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England January 9, 1968 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana January 9, 1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon January 9, 1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep. Julian Bond January 9, 1967 NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints" January 9, 1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism January 9, 1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks January 9, 1964 Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone January 9, 1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" January 9, 1962 Mister M (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ January 9, 1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks January 9, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site January 9, 1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St. Paul territory January 9, 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins January 9, 1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV January 9, 1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die January 9, 1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ January 9, 1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54 January 9, 1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns January 9, 1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR January 9, 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" January 9, 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR January 9, 1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR January 9, 1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers January 9, 1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan January 9, 1954 -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record) January 9, 1954 Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game January 9, 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams January 9, 1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game January 9, 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 January 9, 1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns January 9, 1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title January 9, 1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty January 9, 1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres January 9, 1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds January 9, 1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston January 9, 1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 148 performances January 9, 1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF January 9, 1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 77 performances January 9, 1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines January 9, 1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars January 9, 1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title January 9, 1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created January 9, 1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania January 9, 1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane January 9, 1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium January 9, 1940 J Thurber and E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in New York City January 9, 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians January 9, 1937 Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in New York City January 9, 1936 Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London January 9, 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army January 9, 1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction January 9, 1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game January 9, 1929 BG DeSylva and Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in New York City January 9, 1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California begins radio transmissions January 9, 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in New York City January 9, 1927 Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow January 9, 1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died January 9, 1925 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption January 9, 1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain January 9, 1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions January 9, 1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends January 9, 1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF January 9, 1912 U.S. Marines invade Honduras January 9, 1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south January 9, 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium January 9, 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established January 9, 1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops January 9, 1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY January 9, 1903 Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace January 9, 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established January 9, 1903 Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Balt franchise for $18,000 and move it to New York City (Yankees) January 9, 1901 NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605 January 9, 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters January 9, 1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris January 9, 1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days January 9, 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson January 9, 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas January 9, 1866 Fisk University establishes January 9, 1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC January 9, 1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede January 9, 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon California January 9, 1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies January 9, 1854 Astor Library opens in New York City January 9, 1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established January 9, 1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily January 9, 1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star) January 9, 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science January 9, 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri) January 9, 1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia January 9, 1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon January 9, 1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held January 9, 1799 Income Tax introduced in UK January 9, 1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Phila January 9, 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery January 9, 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America January 9, 1792 Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy January 9, 1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state January 9, 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat January 9, 1718 France declares war on Spain January 9, 1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod January 9, 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland January 9, 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) January 9, 1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus) January 9, 1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands January 9, 1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid January 9, 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses January 9, 1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France January 9, 1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king |