January 9

The ninth day of January.
==Events==
* 1349: The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, is rounded up and incinerated.
* 1431: Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
* 1806: Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
* 2005: Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
==Births==
* 1554: Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623).
* 1902: Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975).
* 1958: Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II.
==Feast days==
===Roman Catholicism===
* Adrian of Canterbury
===Eastern Orthodoxy===
* Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow (1569)
* Theophan the Recluse
* Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259)
* Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker (821)
* Prophet Shemaiah (10th century BCE)
* Saint Peter of Sebaste, bishop in Armenia (391)
* Repose of Elder Jonah, founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1902)
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