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What Happened on January 9th in History?
1349- 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland are burned alive in their houses
1431- Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
1941- 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1945- US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade the Philippines
1989 - Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to MLB Baseball Hall of Fame
Famous People Who Died On January 9th
1723-1805 -Noble Wimberly Jones was an American Continental Congressman and physician from Savannah, Georgia
1798-1858 -Anson Jones was the 5th and last President of Texas, Anson Jones was a doctor, businessman and Congressman, he was a Mason, Sam Houston was chosen over Anson Jones to represent Texas in Washington, Anson Jones became very bitter and shot himself dead
1808-1873 - Emperor Napoleon III was the President of the French second Republic; he rebuilt Paris and the French railway system
1817-1893 -Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten
1915-1977 -Hal Sawyer was a TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62
1898-1979 -Sara Carter was a vocalist/guitarist for the Carter Family, first commercial rural country music group, Sara Carter was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame with the Carter Family in 1970, she appeared on a postage stamp in 1993
1918-1998 -Kenichi Fukui won the Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry for investigation into the mechanisms of chemical reactions
1935-2003 -Will McDonough was a famous American sports journalist for the Boston Globe; he called Roger Clemens the Texas Con Man
1950-2008 -William Quinn was an Irish Republican Army soldier
1925-2010 - Vimcy, Sports writer who was considered the pioneer of Sports Journalism in Kerala, Vimcy wrote a lot about football (soccer), he was Indian
This is series of famous people who died was inspired by Faye Farley who writes about famous people who were born on the same dates. Each day I will make a list of the famous people who died on the particular day with a link to her story about who was born on a particular day. Today's famous deaths will be linked to her September 27 story because she has not made it to October yet. Click here to check out Faye's writing
Sources
Historyorb.com
Wikipedia.com
Holidayinsights.com
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