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This is a list of selected January 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Saint Stephen's Day (Eastern Christianity) refimprove
Feast of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines refimprove sections
Martyrs' Day in Panama (1964) refimprove
Republic Day in Republika Srpska (1992) refimprove/unreferenced sections
1127 – Invading Jin soldiers besieged and sacked Kaifeng and abducted Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty of China. refimprove section; Song Dynasty featured on February 4
1816 – Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp, a safety lamp containing a candle for use in coal mines. refimprove
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre. refimprove section
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. refimprove section
1874 – The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (Keishichō) was formed under the direction of Kawaji Toshiyoshi, dubbed the "Father of Japanese Police". date is sourced to unreliable source, and probably wrong as other sources say the 15th
1878Umberto I became King of Italy following the death of his father Victor Emmanuel II. unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1909Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition, planted the British flag (pictured) 97.5 nautical miles (180.6 km; 112.2 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest south explorers had reached at the time. distance not referenced (also for 2023, we just ran a Shackleton hook a few days ago)
1916First World War: The last British troops evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevailed over a joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul at the Battle of Gallipoli. featured on April 25
1923 – The autogyro, 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. autogyro: refimprove sections; de la Cierva: refimprove
2004Twenty-eight illegal Albanian emigrants died when their inflatable boat stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy. refimprove section
2005Mahmoud Abbas was elected as President of the Palestinian National Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004. External links

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January 9

The plane involved in the Iran Air Flight 277 crash
The plane involved in the Iran Air Flight 277 crash
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