389 Historic Events for January 9
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| 1793 |
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Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
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| 1793 |
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1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Phila
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| 1793 |
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Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
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| 1798 |
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Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea earl of Aranda, Spanish officer, dies at 79
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| 1799 |
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Income Tax introduced in UK
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| 1803 |
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Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secy Treas (Confederacy) died in 1888
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| 1811 |
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1st Women's Golf Tournament held
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| 1812 |
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Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
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| 1815 |
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William Jackson, composer
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| 1816 |
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John Palmer Usher, Secy Int (Union) died in 1889
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| 1820 |
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Pavel Krizkovsky, composer
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| 1822 |
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John Porter Hatch, volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901
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| 1828 |
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Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
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| 1829 |
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Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (Tarimbekken)
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| 1829 |
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Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste)
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| 1832 |
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Esquire Maurits A de Savornin Lohman, Dutch governor of Suriname
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| 1834 |
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HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
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| 1839 |
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John Knowles Paine, Portland Maine, composer
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| 1839 |
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Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
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| 1839 |
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Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
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| 1843 |
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Christiaan A Ulder, Cura‡ao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)
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| 1843 |
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Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany
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| 1847 |
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1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
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| 1848 |
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1st commercial bank in SF established
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| 1848 |
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People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
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