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On this day — January 9

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

2021

Milestone

Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta

Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.

2017

Milestone

Mont-Libre Agile Learning Centre

the province of Quebec's first alternative schooling democratic learning centre to support homeschooled youth, opens in the city of Montreal.

2015

Milestone

The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.

2015

Milestone

A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.

2014

Milestone

An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi

Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.

2011

Milestone

Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country

in icy conditions, killing 78 people.

2007

Milestone

Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.

2005

Politics

Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority

replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.

2005

Politics

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.

2004

Disaster

An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history.

2003

Milestone

TANS Perú Flight 222 crashes on approach to Chachapoyas Airport in Chachapoyas

Peru, killing 46 people.

1997

Milestone

Comair Flight 3272 crashes in Raisinville Township in Monroe County

Michigan, killing 29 people.

1996

Politics

First Chechen War

Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.

1992

Milestone

The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska

a new state within Yugoslavia.

1992

Science

The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail

They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.