Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 9

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  Louis Daguerre, inventor of the Daguerreotype process of photography
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  Louis Daguerre
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  King Umberto I of Italy
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  Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty
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  Mahmoud Abbas
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  Examples of Davy lamps
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  RMS Queen Elizabeth in 1966
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  Raymond Lederer
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  Artist's depiction of planets orbiting PSR B1257+12
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  The plane involved in the Iran Air Flight 277 crash
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  The Trial of Joan of Arc (1909–1910)

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Saint Stephen's Day (Eastern Christianity)	refimprove
Feast of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines	refimprove sections
Martyrs' Day in Panama (1964)	refimprove
Republic Day in Republika Srpska (1992)	refimprove/unreferenced sections
1127 – Invading Jin soldiers besieged and sacked Kaifeng and abducted Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty of China.	refimprove section; Song Dynasty featured on February 4
1816 – Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp, a safety lamp containing a candle for use in coal mines.	refimprove
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre.	refimprove section
1861 – The civilian ship Star of the West was fired upon as it attempted to send supplies and reinforcements to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor before the American Civil War.	refimprove section
1874 – The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (Keishichō) was formed under the direction of Kawaji Toshiyoshi, dubbed the "Father of Japanese Police".	date is sourced to unreliable source, and probably wrong as other sources say the 15th
1878 – Umberto I became King of Italy following the death of his father Victor Emmanuel II.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition, planted the British flag (pictured) Template:Convert from the South Pole, the farthest south explorers had reached at the time.	distance not referenced (also for 2023, we just ran a Shackleton hook a few days ago)
1916 – First World War: The last British troops evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevailed over a joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul at the Battle of Gallipoli.	featured on April 25
1923 – The autogyro, a type of rotorcraft invented by civil engineer and pilot Juan de la Cierva, made its first successful flight at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid, Spain.	autogyro: refimprove sections; de la Cierva: refimprove
2004 – Twenty-eight illegal Albanian emigrants died when their inflatable boat stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy.	refimprove section
2005 – Mahmoud Abbas was elected as President of the Palestinian National Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004.	External links

Eligible

• 1431 – Joan of Arc was placed on trial for heresy (depicted).
• 1857 – An earthquake registering Template:Nowrap ruptured part of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California.
• 1917 – World War I: A meeting of the German Crown Council decided upon the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1970 – The Presidential Council for Minority Rights, an appointed body to review legislation and prevent discrimination against minorities, was created in Singapore.
• 1972 – Seawise University, formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner that sailed the Atlantic for Cunard Line, caught fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
• 1978 – Iranian Revolution: Protests took place in Qom after an article insulting Ruhollah Khomeini was published.
• 1981 – U.S. representative Raymond Lederer was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for his role in the Abscam scandal, but continued to serve his term for three more months.
• 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
• 1992 – Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two pulsar planets orbiting PSR B1257+12 (depicted), the first confirmed detection of exoplanets.
• 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched raids in the city of Kizlyar, Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
• 2015 – Contaminated beer served at a funeral in Tete Province, Mozambique, killed 75 people and made at least 230 others ill.
• Born/died: | Demetrios Chalkokondyles |d|1511| William Dugard |b|1606| Caleb Strong |b|1745| Pierre David |b|1771| Laure Conan |b|1845 Template:Nowrap |d|1876 | Lady Randolph Churchill |b|1854| John B. Watson |b|1878 | Michel Barnier |b|1951| Joseph Parker |b|1992| Makinti Napanangka |d|2011|Brigitte Askonas |d|2013| Paddy Fox |d|1933| Otto Schenk |d|2025

Notes

• RMS Queen Mary 2 appears on January 8, so RMS Queen Elizabeth should not appear in the same year

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• 1797 – War of the First Coalition: The siege of Kehl by Habsburg and Württembergian forces ended when French troops withdrew from their fortifications.
• 1917 – First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border.
• 1972 – The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest in major American professional team sports.
• 1975 – The Great Storm spawned the first of 45 tornadoes over a three-day period in the Southeastern United States.
• 2011 – In poor weather conditions, Iran Air Flight 277 (aircraft pictured) crashed near Urmia Airport, Iran, killing 78 of the 105 people on board.