01-08-2011, 10:09 PM
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January 9th
1839 ~ The Daguerreotype photography process publicly demonstrated.
1861 ~ The "Star of the West" was fired upon as it attempted to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. This was the "Casus belli" of the American Civil War.
1861 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
1903 ~ Hallam Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia.
1913 ~ Birthday of Richard Nixon, U.S. President.
1941 ~ Birthday of Joan Baez, Singer & Activist.
1951 ~ United Nations headquarters officially opened.
1968 ~ The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon,.
1993 ~ Death of Sir Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia.
2005 ~ Mahmoud Abbas won the election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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