9 January
Notable Births
Sarah Toscano
b. 2006
Italian singer-songwriter (born 2006)
Souhardya De
b. 2004
Indian author and columnist
Sangiovanni
b. 2003
Italian singer-songwriter (born 2003)
Eric García (footballer, born 2001)
b. 2001
Spanish footballer (born 2001)
Peter Mamouzelos
b. 2001
Greece international rugby league footballer
Zeke Nnaji
b. 2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
Luka Šamanić
b. 2000
Croatian basketball player (born 2000)
Kerris Dorsey
b. 1998
American actress (born 1998)
Brent Rivera
b. 1998
American YouTuber and actor (born 1998)
Vítek Vaněček
b. 1996
Czech ice hockey player (born 1996)
Braden Hamlin-Uele
b. 1995
NZ & Samoa international rugby league footballer
Dominik Livaković
b. 1995
Croatian goalkeeper (born 1995)
Nicola Peltz
b. 1995
American actress (born 1995)
Radek Faksa
b. 1994
Czech ice hockey player (born 1994)
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
b. 1993
British heptathlete (born 1993)
Marcus Peters
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Jack Campbell (ice hockey)
b. 1992
American ice hockey player (born 1992)
Terrence Jones
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Joseph Parker
b. 1992
New Zealand boxer (born 1992)
Ruby Soho (wrestler)
b. 1991
American professional wrestler (born 1991)
Notable Deaths
Black Bart (wrestler)
d. 2025
American professional wrestler (1948–2025)
Rashid Khan (musician)
d. 2024
Indian classical musician (1968–2024)
Séamus Begley
d. 2023
Irish musical artist (1949–2023)
Bob Saget
d. 2022
American comedian and actor (1956–2022)
Maria Ewing
d. 2022
American opera singer (1950–2022)
John Reilly (actor, born 1934)
d. 2021
American actor (1934–2021)
Verna Bloom
d. 2019
American actress (1938–2019)
Paul Koslo
d. 2019
German-Canadian actor (1944–2019)
Kato Ottio
d. 2018
PNG international rugby league footballer (1994–2018)
Zygmunt Bauman
d. 2017
Polish sociologist and philosopher (1925–2017)
John Harvard (politician)
d. 2016
Canadian politician (1938–2016)
Angus Scrimm
d. 2016
American actor, author, and journalist
Michel Jeury
d. 2015
French writer (1934–2015)
Józef Oleksy
d. 2015
46th Prime Minister of Poland from 1995 to 1996
Abdul Rahman Ya'kub
d. 2015
Malaysian politician (1928–2015), Governor of Sarawak
Roy Tarpley
d. 2015
American basketball player (1964–2015)
Amiri Baraka
d. 2014
African-American writer (1934–2014)
Josep Maria Castellet
d. 2014
Spanish writer and poet (1926–2014)
Paul du Toit
d. 2014
Dale T. Mortensen
d. 2014
American economist
On This Day in History
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2021
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182
2017
Mont-Libre Agile Learning Centre, the province of Quebec's first alternative schooling democratic learning centre to support homeschooled youth, opens in the city of Montreal.
Mont-Libre Agile Learning Centre
2015
The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
Charlie Hebdo shooting
2015
A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.
Mozambique funeral beer poisoning
2014
An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant explosion
2011
Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, in icy conditions, killing 78 people.
Iran Air Flight 277
2007
Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
Apple Inc.
2005
Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
Mahmoud Abbas
2005
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
Sudan People's Liberation Movement
2004
An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history.
Inflatable boat
2003
TANS Perú Flight 222 crashes on approach to Chachapoyas Airport in Chachapoyas, Peru, killing 46 people.
TANS Perú Flight 222
1997
Comair Flight 3272 crashes in Raisinville Township in Monroe County, Michigan, killing 29 people.
Comair Flight 3272
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.
First Chechen War
1992
The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
National Assembly (Republika Srpska)
1992
The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.
Exoplanet
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.
Iraq
1964
Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
Martyrs' Day (Panama)
1962
Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, then known as the "Advanced Saturn", to carry human beings to the Moon.
Apollo program
1961
British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland spy ring in London.
Soviet Union
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.
President of Egypt