9 Januar

The **9t o Januar** is the 9t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 356 days ti come (357 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1317 - Coronation o Philip V o Fraunce/Philip II o Navarre.
* 1788 - Connecticut becomes the 5t state o the Unitit States.
* 1806 - A state funeral is held for Admiral Horatio Nelson in Lunnon.
* 1861 - Mississippi secedes frae the Unitit States.
* 1878 - Umberto I o Italy becomes Keeng.
* 1900 - The fitbaa club S.S. Lazio is foondit in Roum.
* 1909 - Ernest Shackleton haes tae turn back 180 kilometres frae the Sooth Pole.
* 1951 - The Unitit Naitions Headquarters in New York Ceety open.
* 1957 - Anthony Eden resigns as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1959 - The Vega de Tera reservoir dam break in Northwastren Spain kills ower 140 fowk.
* 1960 - Gamal Abdel Nasser opens the buildin wirk on the Aswan Dam in Egyp.
* 1992 - The Naitional Assembly o the Serb fowk in Bosnie an Herzegovinae declares the creation o the Republika Srpska.
* 1992 - Preses o the Unitit States, George H. W. Bush, haes the haingles an bowks on the Japanese Prime Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa.
* 2005 - Mahmoud Abbas is electit the Preses o the Palestinian Authority.
* 2006 - The population o Iceland offeecially reaches 300,000.
* 2007 - Steve Jobs presents the first iPhone.
* 2011 - Sooth Sudan holds a referendum in which a majority supports its unthirldom frae Sudan.
* 2011 - Iran Air Flicht 277 crashes in Northwastren Iran, killin 77 fowk.
* 2017 - Martin McGuinness propales his demission as Deputy First Meenister o Northren Ireland. The pouer-sharin govrenment collapses a week later.
* 2018 - The law legalisin same-sex mairiage in Australie taks effect.
* 2018 - North Korea agrees tae send a team tae the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Sooth Korea.
* 2018 - Mudslides in soothren Californie kill at least 20 fowk.
* 2021 - Sriwijaya Flicht 182 crashes intae the sea naur Jakarta, killin 62 fowk.

## Births

*1554 &ndash; Pape Gregory XV (d. 1623)
*1890 &ndash; Kurt Tucholsky, German jurnalist an writer (d. 1935)
*1890 &ndash; Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
*1908 &ndash; Simone de Beauvoir, French writer an philosopher (d. 1986)
*1913 &ndash; Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, an politeecian, 37nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1994)
*1920 &ndash; Clive Dunn, Inglis actor an sangster (d. 2012)
*1920 &ndash; Thomas Brooke, 2nt Viscoont Alanbrooke (d. 1972)
*1928 &ndash; Domenico Modugno, Italian sangster-sangwriter, actor, an politeecian (d. 1994)
*1941 &ndash; Joan Baez, American sangster an activist
*1944 &ndash; Jimmy Page, Inglis muisicker (Led Zeppelin)
*1945 &ndash; Levon Ter-Petrossian, 1st Preses o Armenie
*1951 &ndash; Michel Barnier, French politeecian
*1955 &ndash; J. K. Simmons, American actor
*1958 &ndash; Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkis murtherer
*1959 &ndash; Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan activist
*1965 &ndash; Haddaway, Trinidad-born sangster
*1965 &ndash; Joely Richardson, Inglis actress
*1970 &ndash; Lara Fabian, Belgian-Italian sangster-sangwriter an actress
*1973 &ndash; Sean Paul, Jamaican muisicker
*1978 &ndash; Gennaro Gattuso, Italian fitbawer an manager
*1982 &ndash; Catherine, Coontess o Strathearn
*1987 &ndash; Paolo Nutini, Scots sangster-sangwriter an guitarist

## Daiths
* 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathemateecian an philosopher (b. 1718)
* 1841 - John Gilchrist, Scots linguist, filologist an Indologist (b. 1759) 
* 1873 - Napoleon III o Fraunce (b. 1808)
* 1878 - Victor Emmanuel II o Italy (b. 1820)
* 1886 - James Fergusson, Scots airchitectural historian (b. 1808)
* 1944 - Antanas Smetona, Preses o Lithuanie (b. 1874)
* 1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American economist an author (b. 1867)
* 1986 - Jimmy Adams, Scots gowfer (b. 1910)
* 2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scots writer (b. 1909)
* 2013 - James M. Buchanan, American economist (b. 1919)
* 2020 - Mike Resnik, American science fiction writer (b. 1942)

## Halidays
* Martyrs' Day (Panama)
* St. Stephen's Day (Eastren Orthodox Kirk)