January 9 many years ago (photos + video)
Name days: Antonina, Luka, Yosyp, Davyd, Olena, Stepan (Stefan), Tykhin, Fedor, Ferapont, Yakiv.
In Panama, the Day of the Victims is observed.
Main events on January 9
• Treaty of Jassy, 1792
• Invention of photography, 1839
• End of the Dardanelles Campaign, 1916
• First iPhone, 2007
1349 — Accused of poisoning wells, which local residents believed caused the spread of the plague, 600 Jews of Basel were chained and burned alive in a barn on an island in the Rhine. By decision of the city authorities, Jews were forbidden to settle in the city for the next 200 years.
1449 — Constantine XI Dragases of the Palaiologos dynasty ascended the throne, the last Byzantine emperor, who died four years later during the Ottoman capture of Constantinople.
1522 — After the death of Leo X, Cardinal Adrian of Utrecht was elected pope under the name Adrian VI. His very short pontificate (he died on September 14, 1523) did not allow him to carry out church reforms aimed at countering Luther’s teachings.
Modern history
1719 — After the exposure of a conspiracy inspired by Spain at the court of the five-year-old King Louis XV, France declared war on Spain, known as the War of the Quadruple Alliance, which ended in victory for France and its allies.
1792 — A peace treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was signed in Jassy, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1791.
1793 — Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first hot-air balloon flight in the New World.
1799 — The world’s first income tax was introduced in England.
1806 — Admiral Horatio Nelson was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
1826 — The uprising of the Chernihiv Regiment began.
1839 — At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, physicist François Arago presented a report on Louis Daguerre’s invention of a method for producing “permanent images,” called daguerreotype. This day is considered the day photography was invented.
1943 — The pro-Japanese government of Wang Jingwei declared war on the United States and Great Britain.
1951 — The official opening of the United Nations headquarters took place in New York.
1957 — Anthony Eden resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1963 — Negotiations on the UK’s accession to the EEC were suspended.
1964 — Mass anti-American protests in the Panama Canal Zone led to casualties.
1972 — The ocean liner “Queen Elizabeth” caught fire and sank in Hong Kong Harbor.
1976 — Filming of the first “Rocky” movie starring Sylvester Stallone began.
1980 — 63 Islamic fundamentalists were executed in Saudi Arabia.
Our time
1996 — A group of Chechen militants led by Salman Raduyev seized a hospital in Kizlyar, Dagestan.
1998 — Ramzi Yousef was sentenced to life imprisonment in New York.
2000 — US President Clinton hosted a dinner honoring Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa.
2005 — Mahmoud Abbas won the Palestinian presidential election.
2007 — At the Macworld conference, Steve Jobs presented Apple’s first iPhone.
Born on January 9
John Smith, Simone Vouet, Friedrich von Esmarch, Karel Čapek, Stepan Shahaida, Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Nixon, Sergei Parajanov, Jimmy Page, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Lara Fabian, Alexander James McLean, Catherine Middleton.
Died on January 9
Johannes Aventinus, Napoleon III, Victor Emmanuel II, Antanas Smetona.