January 09
1788
Connecticut became the 5th state in the United States.
1861
Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
1905
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked by troops firing on petitioners to Czar Nicholas in St. Petersburg.
1964
Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.
1968
Surveyor 7, the last of America’s unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.
Birthdays
Richard Nixon
1913–1994, 37th United States President.
Carrie Chapman Catt
suffragist (1859)
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
poet, publisher (1873)
John B. Watson
psychologist (1878)
Karel Capek
author (1890)
Simone de Beauvoir
author (1908)
Har Gobind Khorana
biochemist (1922)
Bob Denver
actor (1935)
Joan Baez
folk singer and political activist (1941)
Jimmy Page
musician (1944)
Imelda Staunton
actor (1956)
Kate Middleton
Duchess of Cambridge (1982)