Today in Histroy

January 9 is the ninth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

1788

Connecticut became the 5th state in the United States.

1799 -

 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.

1848 -

 The first commercial bank was established in San Francisco, CA.

  . 1861 –

 Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. 

  1863 – 

 American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.

  1894 –

 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.

1905

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked by troops firing on petitioners to Czar Nicholas in St. Petersburg.

1940 - 

Television was used for the first time to present a sales meeting to convention delegates in New York City.

  1957 –

 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty. 

  1960 –  

President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. 

  1964 

– Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.

  1964

Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.

1968

Surveyor 7, the last of America's unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.

1972 - British miners went on strike for the first time since 1926.