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Events on January 9

• 1349 In Basel, a large part of the city's Jewish population, who had been expelled to an island in the Rhine, is burned in a house built specifically for them, because during the plague epidemic of the Black Death they are accused of poisoning wells.
• 1864 In Battersea Park in London, the first official football match is played according to the rules of the English Football Association (The Football Association (FA)), which was founded the previous year.
• 1907 The law concerning copyright in works of the fine arts and photography is enacted in Germany. Its present-day significance lies primarily in its provisions on the right to one's own image.
• 1929 The British physician and bacteriologist Alexander Fleming tests the antibiotic active substance penicillin, which he discovered by chance, for the first time.
• 1937 The Walt Disney animated film Don Donald, in which Donald Duck appears for the first time as the main character, is premiered.
• 1951 The headquarters of the United Nations is officially opened in New York City.
• 1979 On the occasion of the International Year of the Child, the Bee Gees perform their song Too Much Heaven at the concert for UNICEF. The group bequeaths all the royalties it earned worldwide from the song to the United Nations Children's Fund.
• 1984 The Berlin public transport company (BVG) takes over the Berlin S-Bahn in the western part of the city, which had previously been operated by the German Reichsbahn.
• 2001 The German Minister of Agriculture Karl-Heinz Funke and Minister of Health Andrea Fischer resign due to the BSE crisis.
• 2003 The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the National Museums in Berlin, and Friedrich Christian Flick sign a controversial agreement to exhibit parts of the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in Berlin.
• 2007 Steve Jobs presents the iPhone at Macworld – iWorld in San Francisco. The smartphone with its capacitive screen (touchscreen) subsequently changes the global mobile phone market.
• 2021 Four minutes after taking off in Jakarta, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes into the Java Sea. All 62 people aboard the Boeing 737-500 die.

Born on January 9

• 1890 Karel Čapek, Czech writer
• 1890 Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and writer
• 1920 Clive Dunn, British actor
• 1920 Curth Flatow, German director and writer
• 1930 Ernst Dieter Lueg, German journalist
• 1940 Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
• 1941 Joan Baez, American folk singer, civil rights activist and pacifist
• 1950 Rio Reiser, German singer, musician, composer, lyricist and actor
• 1981 Julia Dietze, German actress
• 2001 Rodrygo, Brazilian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „9. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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