What happend on 9th January

08.01
10.01
1929

The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).

1923

Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight.

1917

Battle of Rafa

1916

The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated.

1912

Marines invade Honduras.

1905

According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.

1903

Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia

1894

New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.

1882

Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York.

1880

The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.