History for January 9

History for January 9 - On-This-Day.com
Simone de Beauvoir 1908, Richard Milhous Nixon (U.S.) 1913, Bart Starr (NFL) 1934 


Bob Denver 1935, Joan Baez 1941, Crystal Gayle 1951 


1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the U.S. 


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. 


1902 - New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public. 


1969 - The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol. 


1984 - Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's. 


1986 - Kodak got out of the instant camera business after 10 years due to a loss in a court battle that claimed that Kodak copied Polaroid patents. 


2002 - Yasmine Bleeth was sentenced to two years of probation, regular drug tests, 100 hours of community service and pay the court costs in connection to a cocaine-possession charge. 


2002 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was pursuing a criminal investigation of Enron Corp. The company had filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.