Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 9

This is a list of selected January 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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Louis Daguerre, inventor of the Daguerreotype process of photography
Louis Daguerre
King Umberto I of Italy
Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty
Mahmoud Abbas
Examples of Davy lamps
RMS Queen Elizabeth in 1966
Raymond Lederer
Artist's rendition of PSR B1257+12 and its planets

Artist's rendition of PSR B1257+12 and its planets

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Saint Stephen's Day (Eastern Christianity)	refimprove
Feast of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines	refimprove sections
Martyrs' Day in Panama (1964)	refimprove
Republic Day in Republika Srpska (1992)	refimprove/unreferenced sections
1127 – Invading Jin soldiers besieged and sacked Kaifeng and abducted Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty of China.	refimprove section; Song Dynasty featured on February 4
1816 – Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp, a safety lamp containing a candle for use in coal mines.	refimprove
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre.	refimprove section
1861 – The civilian ship Star of the West was fired upon as it attempted to send supplies and reinforcements to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor before the American Civil War.	refimprove section
1878 – Umberto I became King of Italy following the death of his father Victor Emmanuel II.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1916 – First World War: The last British troops evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevailed over a joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul at the Battle of Gallipoli.	featured on April 25
1923 – The autogyro, a type of rotorcraft invented by civil engineer and pilot Juan de la Cierva, made its first successful flight at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid, Spain.	autogyro: refimprove sections; de la Cierva: refimprove
2004 – Twenty-eight illegal Albanian emigrants died when their inflatable boat stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy.	refimprove section
2005 – Mahmoud Abbas was elected as President of the Palestinian National Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004.	External links
Carrie Chapman Catt \|b\|1859	POTD for 2022

Eligible

1857 – An earthquake registering 7.9 M_w ruptured part of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California.
1917 – First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border in present-day Rafah.
1972 – Seawise University, formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner that sailed the Atlantic for Cunard Line, caught fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
1981 – U.S. representative Raymond Lederer was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for his role in the Abscam scandal, but continued to serve his term for three more months.
1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1992 – Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 (depicted), generally considered the first definitive detection of an exoplanet.
1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched raids in the city of Kizlyar, Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
2011 – In poor weather conditions, Iran Air Flight 277 crashed near Urmia Airport, Iran, killing 78 people.
2015 – Contaminated beer served at a funeral in Tete Province, Mozambique, killed 75 people and made at least 230 others ill.
Born/died: | William Dugard |b|1606| Leonard Holliday |d|1612| Caleb Strong |b|1745| Thomas William Robertson |b|1829| Laure Conan |b|1845| Lady Randolph Churchill |b|1854| Samuel Gridley Howe |d|1876| Makinti Napanangka |d|2011| Lei Jieqiong |d|2011| Brigitte Askonas |d|2013

Notes

RMS Queen Mary 2 appears on January 8, so RMS Queen Elizabeth should not appear in the same year

January 9

Ernest Shackleton and his team with the British flag

1874 – The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (Keishichō) was formed under the direction of Kawaji Toshiyoshi, dubbed the "Father of Japanese Police".
1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition, planted the British flag (pictured) 97.5 nautical miles (180.6 km; 112.2 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest south explorers had reached at the time.
1970 – The Presidential Council for Minority Rights, an appointed body to review legislation and prevent discrimination against minorities, was created in Singapore.
1972 – The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest of any team in American professional sports.
1978 – The 1978 Qom protest was triggered, after an article insulting Imam Khomeini was published in Ettela'at newspaper.

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John B. Watson (b. 1878)
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