389 Historic Events for January 9
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| 1902 |
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Rudolph Bing, opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera)
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| 1903 |
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2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY
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| 1903 |
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Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace
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| 1903 |
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Wind Cave National Park, SD established
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| 1903 |
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Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Balt franchise for $18,000 and move it to NYC (Yankees)
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| 1904 |
Birth |
George Balanchine, dancer/choreographer/ballet producer [NS=Jan 22]
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| 1904 |
Death |
Alfred Richard, cricketer (6 and 0 in only Test for S Af 1895-96), dies
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| 1905 |
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Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)
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| 1908 |
Death |
Wilhelm Busch, writer, dies
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| 1908 |
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Muir Woods National Monument, Calif established
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| 1908 |
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Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
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| 1908 |
Death |
Abraham Goldfaden, US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at 67
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| 1909 |
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Ernest Shackleton reaches 88ΓΈ23' south
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| 1909 |
Birth |
Herva Nelli, soprano
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader
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| 1911 |
Birth |
Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
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| 1911 |
Death |
Edwin Arthur Jones, composer, dies at 57
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| 1911 |
Birth |
Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor
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| 1912 |
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US marines invade Honduras
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Ralph Tubbs, architect
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Richard Milhous Nixon, (R) 37th pres (1968-74) (I am not a crook!)
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| 1914 |
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Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)
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