Daily Calendar for January 9th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1570s

• 1570: Ivan the Terrible of Russia, suspecting a revolt in the city of Novgorod, captured the city and executed many of its inhabitants

1580s

• Died 1584: William Carter (printer, hanged for printing lewd pamphlets)

1780s

• 1788: Connecticut became the fifth state to join the U.S.

1790s

• 1793: First successful U.S. balloon flight was completed in Philadelphia, PA, by Jean Pierre Blanchard

1800s

• Born 1802: Catharine Parr Traill (writer)

1830s

• Born 1839: John Knowles Paine (composer)

1860s

• 1861: Mississippi seceded from the Union (U.S. Civil War)

1890s

• Born 1898: Gracie Fields (comedienne)

1900s

• Born 1908: Simone de Beauvoir (novelist)

1910s

• Born 1913: Richard Nixon (37th U.S. president)

• Born 1915: Fernando Lamas (actor)

1920s

• Born 1928: Judith Krantz (author)

1930s

• Born 1934: Bart Starr (football player)

1940s

• Born 1941: Joan Baez (singer)

• Born 1944: Jimmy Page (guitarist)

• 1945: U.S. Forces invaded Luzon, Philippines (WW II)

• Died 1949: Tom Longboat (runner)

1950s

• Born 1950: Sir Alec Jeffreys (geneticist)

• Born 1951: Crystal Gayle (singer)

• 1951: U.N. headquarters opened in New York City

• Born 1955: J. K. Simmons (actor)

1960s

• 1962: U.S. and Japan concluded a formal agreement for the final settlement of U.S. postwar economic assitance to Japan

• Born 1965: Joely Richardson (actress)

• Born 1967: Dave Matthews (musician)

• 1968: U.S. spacecraft Surveyor VII made a successful landing on the moon

1970s

• 1972: The Queen Elizabeth, luxury ocean liner, was gutted by fire in Hong Kong harbor

1980s

• 1982: 5.9 earthquake shook eastern Canada and New England

• 1982: 5.7 earthquake struck Miramichi, New Brunswick

• Born 1982: Catherine Middleton (Duchess of Cambridge)

1990s

• 1996: NBA's Toronto Raptors became the first team to miss all free throw attempts in a game

2010s

• 2010: A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the shore of Eureka in Northern California

• 2018: A venomous yellow-bellied sea snake was found on shore in Newport Beach, California. This was the fifth recorded sighting of the snake species in California history, and the first outside of an El Niño year. Scientists believe that rising ocean temperatures may have been a factor. The snake typically lives in tropical water, spending its whole life at sea; it does not go on shore unless it is ill.