Talk:January 9

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January 9: Martyrs' Day in Panama 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre. 1861 – The civilian ship Star of the West was fired upon as it attempted to send supplies and reinforcements to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor before the American Civil War. 1878 – Umberto I became King of Italy. 1916 – World War I: The last British troops evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevailed over of a joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul at the Battle of Gallipoli. 1923 – The autogyro (pictured), a type of rotorcraft invented by civil engineer and pilot Juan de la Cierva, made its first successful flight at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid, Spain. 1972 – RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner which sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the Cunard White Star Line, was destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004. More events: January 8 – January 9 – January 10 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 08:31, June 12, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Contents 1 less-than-interesting 2 Judith Krantz 3 Recordings 4 Opening of first section of London Underground

[edit] less-than-interesting

There are certainly a lot of less-than-interesting people on this page. Do we really care about ONE Miss Teen USA from one state in one year? Who is Anne de Bretagne (WHICH Maximilian did she marry), and why does she rate other than because she married him? What is KZ-Lower Drancy? -- Zoe

I was thinking the same thing. The less than famous people needn't be listed at all and the minor actors, music performers and sports figures can be farmed-off to sub-lists. How about January 9th in the performing arts and January 9th in sport? --mav

I can agree for January/February/.. 1/2/3/4/.. in sport, and I can provide information at least about football-related people (businessmen, footballers, coaches, days of foundation of sport clubs etc) .. webkid 20:52 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Judith Krantz

How many authors called Judith Krantz are there and were they born in 1928 or 1937? Google favours 1928 by about 3 to 2.

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• 1982 - Paolo Ferracin

Probably a vanity entry, posted on Jan 15/16, 2004 in this edit by IPs 82.84.195.249 and 82.84.196.92, a dial-up server of Tiscali in Italy. Google indicates that he might be an Italian student doing research in magnetism. Lupo 07:54, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• 1983 - William Hoffe, South African intellectual and philosopher

He's no one of any importance, and probably won't ever be either.

[edit] Recordings

I do think the list of recordings adds to the value of the day entries, but it should possibly be on a separate January 9 in music page, linked from here. NB: What does the w. and m. in the list mean?—Eloquence 03:33, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

• It's certainly not self-evident but it appears it's words and music. -- Nunh-huh 03:36, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Opening of first section of London Underground

I've seen elsewhere, including London Transport website and main article on Wikipedia, that the first stretch opened on January 10th not 9th. Can anyone else confirm this? Sophisticated penguin (talk) 13:23, 8 January 2008 (UTC)