01-09-2006, 06:39 AM
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January 9th
1431 ~ Start of the Heresy trial of Joan of Arc.
1793 ~ Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the U.S.
1839 ~ The Daguerreotype photography process publicly demonstrated.
1861 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
1882 ~ Oscar Wilde gave his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York.
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.
2005 ~ Mahmoud Abbas won the election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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