January 9 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for January 9
In the headlines today:

2006	TV and film star Yvonne de Carlo (The Munsters, The Ten Commandments) dies of natural causes in Los Angeles at age 84. (photo credit: Universal Studios)
2007	Apple chairman Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone: a combination cell phone, PDA, and iPod device.
2007	Apple Computer, Inc. changes its name to Apple, Inc.
1997	Twenty-nine people die when a Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles from Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
1995	British comedian Peter Cook dies in London, at age 57.
1990	The space shuttle Columbia leaves earth on a ten-day mission to, among other things, retrieve a drifting satellite.
1986	After 10 years of sales (and a lawsuit from rival Polaroid), Kodak discontinues its line of instant cameras.
1980	Saudi Arabia executes 63 people for their part in a raid on Mecca's Grand Mosque the previous November.
1972	Billionaire Howard Hughes speaks to reporters by phone, stating that a biography of him by author Clifford Irving is phony.
1968	The unmanned US space probe Surveyor 7 lands on the lunar surface.
1965	The album Beatles '65 reaches number one on the US music charts. (photo credit: Capitol Records)
1964	21 Panamanians and three US soldiers die when anti-US rioting erupts in the Panama Canal Zone.
1957	British prime minister Anthony Eden resigns.
1937	The first issue of Look magazine appears on newsstands.
1861	Mississippi secedes from the Union, during the US Civil War.
1793	Jean-Pierre Blanchard makes the first successful balloon flight in the US. His hydrogen-filled balloon lifts off in Philadelphia, PA, and lands 15 miles away in Woodbury, New Jersey.
1788	Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the US Constitution.