It happened on this day, January 9
Events:
1038 – The Shenxi earthquake occurred in China, killing approximately 2,300 people.
1718 – France declares war on Spain.
1788 – The State of Connecticut joins the United States as the fifth state in the order of accession.
1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard flies a hot air balloon, becoming the first person to fly one in the United States.
1832 – Ottoman Sultan Mahmoud II opens the “Jarkhana Amera School” for qualified surgeons.
1857 – An earthquake in Fort Tejon, California, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, is one of the 15 largest earthquakes in the United States and one of the largest earthquakes in the history of California.
1861 – The state of Mississippi leaves the United States, becoming the second state to announce its secession amid the American Civil War.
1932 – Emperor Hirohito is the victim of an assassination attempt with a hand grenade during the Sakuradamon Incident by a Korean nationalist.
1939 – Italy announces the annexation of Tripoli and Cyrenaica and grants citizenship to their residents.
(1945–The United States invades the Philippine island of Luzon
1946- Creation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan.
1951 – Official opening of the United Nations headquarters in New York.
1960 – Gamal Abdel Nasser lays the foundation stone for the construction of the High Dam after the Soviet Union loaned his country $100 million, with the World Bank refusing to finance the construction of the dam.
1963 – First satellite television transmission in the United States.
1964 – Anti-American demonstrations in the Panama Canal Zone, administered by the United States since 1903.
1968 – Creation of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries.
1986 – Israeli army forces, called Border Guards, impose a curfew in the area of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and arrest a number of worshipers and mosque guards after clashing with members of the commission from inside the Israeli Knesset. official attempt to attack Al-Aqsa.
1987 – Iran launches a massive attack on Shatt al-Arab as part of the Iran-Iraq War.
1989 – Thanks to Saudi mediation, relations between Syria and Morocco are restored, broken 3 years ago after the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister to Morocco.
1990 – Inauguration of the Iraqi oil pipeline which reaches Yanbu, in Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea.
1991 – US Secretary of State James Baker announces the failure of negotiations between him and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz due to Iraq's lack of flexibility in responding to UN Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait. Iraq's misunderstanding of the international response to the invasion of Kuwait and its failure to hear anything from Aziz indicates that Iraq will withdraw from Kuwait.
1995 – Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spends 366 days on the Mir space station, breaking the record for the longest stay in space.
2004 – Agreement under which Libya undertakes to compensate the families of the victims of the attack on a French airliner, OTA, in 1989, which left 170 dead.
2005 – John Garang takes power as the first president of South Sudan after the Naivasha Peace Agreement between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
💥 Elections in Palestine to elect the president of the Palestinian National Authority to succeed Yasser Arafat, and the result was that Mahmoud Abbas won the presidential seat by 62%.
2006 – Sudan issues a new currency called pound sterling in place of the dinar.
2007 – Clashes and protests in Dhaka demanding the cancellation of Bangladesh's general elections.
2008 – US President George Bush begins a tour of the Middle East in an attempt to revive the peace process neglected during his presidential term.
2009 – The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 1860 calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip followed by a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces.
2010 – Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit announces that his country has decided to prevent any humanitarian aid convoys destined for Gaza from crossing its territory, regardless of their origin or the type of those responsible.
2011 – Voting process began in South Sudan's self-determination referendum.
💥 Israel demolishes the house of the former mufti of Jerusalem, Amin Al-Husseini.
💥 New popular demonstrations in Tunisia leave 8 dead and several injured by police bullets.
💥 3 demonstrators were killed and 400 others injured during clashes between young demonstrators and security forces in different regions of Algeria.
💥 An Iranian airliner with more than a hundred passengers on board crashed over the Urmia region, and it was announced that fifty passengers survived.
2017 – FIFA announces that the number of teams participating in the FIFA World Cup will increase to 48, starting in 2026.
💥 Announcement of Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo as winner of the 2016 FIFA World Player of the Year award in his new look.
2018 – The Greek Parliament abolishes the use of Islamic law in matters of marriage and divorce between Greek Muslims and entrusts this task to civil courts.
2021 – Sriwijaya Flight 182, with 62 people on board, crashes north of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
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Births:
1728 – Thomas Wharton, English poet.
1745 – Caleb Strong, American politician.
1890 – Karl Čapek, Czech writer.
1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, thinker, philosopher and journalist.
1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States.
1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, president of Guinea.
** Har Gobind Khurana, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968
1925 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor.
1926 – Giannis Christou, Greek musician.
1930 – Igor Neto, Soviet footballer and coach.
1936 – Ahmed Muhammad Auf, Egyptian encyclopedic writer.
1955 – JK Simmons, American actor.
1958 – Salma Al-Masry, Syrian actress.
1959 – Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan human rights defender who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.
1967 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentine footballer.
1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican singer.
1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer.
1981 – Eusebius Smolarek, Polish footballer.
1982 – Hassan Mohammed, Bahraini actor and broadcaster.
** Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
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Death:
1873 – Napoleon III, French emperor.
1878 – King Vittorio Emanuele II, king of Italy.
1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and trade unionist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
1970 – Giannis Christou, Greek musician. 1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Yayane pharmacist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981.
2004 – Mamoun Al-Hudaybi, sixth general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.
2007 – Ibrahim Khan, Sudanese actor.
2016 – Hamada Emam, Egyptian sports commentator and footballer.
2021 – Sadiq Al-Dabis, Kuwaiti actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Republic Day in Serbia.
⏪ Republic Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
⏪ Police Day in Iraq.
⏪ Martyrs' Day in Panama.
