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Jan 16, 2009
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Friday, January 9, 2009

This was 9th day of the year and 356 days remained in the year.


January 9 Birthdays

Richard Nixon
1913–1994, 37th United States President.

Carrie Chapman Catt
suffragist (1859)

 Hayyim Nahman Bialik
poet, publisher (1873)

 John B. Watson
psychologist (1878)

 Karel Capek
author (1890)

 Simone de Beauvoir
author (1908)

 Har Gobind Khorana
biochemist (1922)

 Bob Denver
actor (1935)

 Joan Baez
folk singer and political activist (1941)

 Jimmy Page
musician (1944)

 Imelda Staunton
actor (1956)

January 9 in History

1788

Connecticut became the 5th state in the United States.

1861

Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.

1905

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked by troops firing on petitioners to Czar Nicholas in St. Petersburg.

1964

Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.

1968

Surveyor 7, the last of America's unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.

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