On This Day in History - January 9 |
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| What Happened On This Day In History - January 9 |
1317 January 9
1317-01-09
Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
1811 January 9
1811-01-09
1st Women's Golf Tournament held
1905 January 9
1905-01-09
Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1922 January 9
1922-01-09
KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions
1936 January 9
1936-01-09
Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army
1959 January 9
1959-01-09
Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
1968 January 9
1968-01-09
Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Olympic-bronze-1964), commits suicide
1972 January 9
1972-01-09
The RMS Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by a fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
1979 January 9
1979-01-09
Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
