On This Day:
Monday January 9, 2012
This is the 9th day of the year, with 357 days remaining
in 2012.
Fact of the Day: deer and plants
Deer generally do not like barberry, paper birch, boxwood,
Russian olive, pieris, holly, leucothoe, white birch,
forsythia, bittersweet, dogwood, inkberry, lilac, mountain
laurel, beautybush, and flowering cherry.
Holidays
Feast day of Saints Julian and Basilissa, St. Berhtwald of
Canterbury, St. Peter of Sebastea, St. Waningus or Vaneng,
and St. Marciana of Rusuccur.
Panama:
Martyrs' Day.
Philippines:
Feast of the Black Nazarene.
Events
1719
- Philip
V of Spain
declared war on France.
1768
- Englishman Philip
Astley staged the first modern circus, in London.
1788
- Connecticut
became the fifth state to ratify the Constitution
of the United States of America.
1793
- Jean-Pierre-Francois
Blanchard made the first manned free-balloon flight in
America,
at Philadelphia,
watched by President George
Washington.
1799
- British prime minister William
Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two
shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic
Wars.
1861
- Mississippi
seceded from the Union.
1951
- The United
Nations headquarters opened in New
York City.
1972
- In Hong
Kong harbor, the Queen
Elizabeth passenger line was destroyed by fire.
Births
1890
- Karel
Capek, Czech writer and playwright.
1908
- Simone
de Beauvoir, French novelist and critic.
1913
- Richard
Milhous Nixon, first American president to resign from
office (following his involvement in the Watergate
scandal).
1914
- Gypsy
Rose Lee (Rose
Hovick), American actress, dancer, stripper.
1941
- Joan
Baez, American singer and activist.
Deaths
1873
- Napoleon
III, French emperor.
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