January 9<\/p>\n
1431 \u2013 The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen<\/p>\n
1788 \u2013 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n
1793 \u2013 Jean Pierre Blanchard is the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.<\/p>\n
1822 \u2013 The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King Jo\u00e3o VI, beginning what will eventually result in Brazilian independence.<\/p>\n
1857 \u2013 A 7.9 magnitude earthquake on the southern end of the San Andreas fault hits Central and Southern California, causing the most property damage at Fort Tejon and killing a woman in nearby Gorman in a building collapse.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 While Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, cadets from the South Carolina Military Academy – now The Citadel<\/em> – fire upon the SS Star of the West<\/em>\u00a0in Charleston harbor as it arrives to resupply the garrison at Fort Sumter. Some scholars see this as the actual first shots fired in the War Between the States.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 The Gallipoli campaign ends with the last Allied forces evacuated from the Dardanelles<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 In Bear Valley Arizona, elements of the U.S. Army’s 10th Cavalry Regiment and a small number of Yaqui indians engage in the last official battle of the American Indian Wars<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 The United States Army 6th Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, then known as the “Advanced Saturn”, to carry human beings to the Moon.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 In Geneva Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz meet in a final attempt to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 Working at the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico,\u00a0 astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail make the first confirmed observations of extrasolar planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12 in the constellation Virgo<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 Comair Flight 3272, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia<\/em>, crashes in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan, while on approach for landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, killing all 29 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 The moslem terrorist perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris earlier are both killed by during a gunfight with French police in Dammartin-en-Go\u00eble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 9 1431 \u2013 The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen 1788 \u2013 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1793 \u2013 Jean Pierre Blanchard is the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1822 \u2013 The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63719"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89135,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63719\/revisions\/89135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}