January 9 Historical Events

The following events took place on January 9. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 51 events. Showing 31 - 51.

• 1923
  Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations’ decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
• 1927
  A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
• 1938
  Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens.
• 1941
  World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
• 1945
  World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
• 1947
  Elizabeth “Betty” Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
• 1957
  British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
• 1960
  President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
• 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 to 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.
• 1996
  First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
• 2004
  An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
• 2005
  Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
• 2005
  The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
• 2007
  Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
• 2011
  Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
• 2013
  A SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.
• 2014
  An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
• 2015
  The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation. Elsewhere, a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market, Hypercacher, in the eastern Paris suburb of Vincennes.