Today is Monday, January 9, the ninth day of 2023. There are 356 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On January 9, 2015, French security forces shot and killed two al-Qaeda-linked brothers suspected of carrying out a riot at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead.
In 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the US Constitution.
In 1793, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard, using a hot air balloon, flew from Philadelphia to Woodbury, New Jersey.
In 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union, and on the same day the Star of the West, a merchant ship carrying reinforcements and supplies for Federal forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, was driven back by artillery fire.
In 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was born in Yorba Linda, California.
In 1914, Los Angeles County opened the nation’s first public defender’s office.
In 1916, the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I ended after eight months in victory for the Ottoman Empire as the Allied forces withdrew.
In 1945, during World War II, American forces begin to land on the shores of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines as the Battle of Luzon begins, resulting in an Allied victory over the Imperial Japanese forces.
In 1951, the United Nations headquarters in New York officially opened.
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his State of the Union address to Congress, warned of the threat of communist imperialism.
In 1972, billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking on the phone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said his alleged biography, told writer Clifford Irving, was fake.
In 1987, the White House released a January 1986 memorandum prepared by Lt. Col. Oliver L. North to President Ronald Reagan showing the link between US arms sales to Iran and the release of American hostages in Lebanon.
In 2003, UN weapons inspectors said there was “no hard evidence” to prove Iraq possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, but demanded that Baghdad provide special access to scientists and new evidence to support its claim that it had destroyed weapons of mass destruction. .
In 2005, Mahmoud Abbas, the second-in-command in the Palestinian hierarchy under Yasser Arafat, was elected president of the Palestinian Authority by a landslide.
In 2020, Chinese state media said a preliminary investigation into recent cases of viral pneumonia had identified the likely cause as a new type of coronavirus.
Ten years ago: Vice President Joe Biden heard personal stories of gun violence from representatives of victim groups and gun safety organizations at the White House as he pledged to craft the Obama administration’s response to the Connecticut elementary school shooting. The Seastreak Wall Street, a passenger ferry, made a hard landing on a Manhattan dock, injuring 85 people. No one has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. For the second time in four decades.
FIVE YEARS AGO: Heavy rains pelted mud and boulders on Southern California hillsides stripped of vegetation by massive wildfires. More than 20 people have been killed and hundreds of homes damaged or destroyed. The Breitbart News Network has announced that Steve Bannon has resigned as chairman of the board following his very public break with President Donald Trump.
One year ago: 17 people, including eight children, died after a fire caused by a malfunctioning space heater filled a high-rise apartment building with smoke in the Bronx borough of New York City. It was the deadliest fire in the city in three decades. Comedian and actor Bob Saget, best known for his role on the sitcom ‘Full House’, has been found dead in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida. (The medical examiner later determined that Saget died from an accidental blow to the head, most likely caused by a backward fall.) Dwayne Hickman, a television actor and director who remembered his role as TV show Dobie Gillis from 1959 to 1963, died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. at his home in Los Angeles; He was 87 years old.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Kay Callan turns 87. Popular singer Joan Baez is 82 years old. Rock musician Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) is 79 years old. And actor John Doman is 78 years old. And singer David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) is 73 years old. Singer Crystal Gayle is 72 years old. Actor JK Simmons is 68 years old. Actor Imelda Staunton is 67 years old. The age of Rigoberta Menchu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 64 years. Rock musician Erik Erlandson is 60 years old. And actor Jolie Richardson is 58 years old. Artist Carl Bell (Fuel) is 56 years old. Actor David Costabile (“Breaking Bad” is 56. Rock singer Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth) is 56. Rock singer and musician Dave Matthews is 56. Actor and director Joey Lauren Adams is 55. Comedian/actor Dion Cole is 52. Actress Angela Bettis is 50. Actor Omari Hardwicke is 49. Roots singer-songwriter Hayes Carl is 47. Singer AJ McClain (Backstreet Boys) He is 45. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 41. Pop-rock musician Drew Brown (OneRepublic) is 39. Soul rock singer Paolo Nutini is 36. Actress Nina Dobrev is 34, and actor Basil Eddenbeans Age is 30. Actor Kyris Dorsey is 25. Actor Terry Brown is 1. 9.
