This day in History - January 9

389 Historic Events for January 9
1937 Event Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians
1938 Birth Aad Kosto, Dutch theologist/actor/asst secretary of Justice
1939 Death Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72
1940 Birth Jimmy Boyd, McComb Mo, singer/actor (Howard-Bachelor Father)
1940 Event 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
1940 Event J Thurber and E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in NYC
1940 Birth Barbara Buczek, composer
1941 Event 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1941 Death Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1941 Event Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1941 Birth Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1941 Birth Susannah York, London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1942 Birth K Callan, Dallas Tx, actress (Joe's World, Martha-Lois and Clark)
1942 Event Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 Event US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1943 Birth Kenneth Kelley, US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)
1943 Birth Rob Hoeke, Dutch pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed)
1943 Event Japanese govt in Java limits sale and use of motorcars
1943 Birth Dick Yount, rocker (Harpers Bizarre)
1943 Death Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53
1944 Birth Jimmy Page, London, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1944 Birth Scott Engel, vocalist (Walker Brothers-Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore)
1945 Birth Harun Farocki, actor/director (Nicht loeschbares Feur)
1945 Birth Frank J Biondi Jr, president (HBO)
1945 Event US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines