History for January 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Simone de Beauvoir 1908, Richard Milhous Nixon (U.S.) 1913, Bart Starr 1934 - Football player
Bob Denver 1935, Joan Baez 1941, Jimmy Page 1944 - Musician (Led Zeppelin)
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.
1929 - The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.
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.
1997 - Tamil rebels attacked a military base in Sri Lanka. 200 soldiers and 140 rebels were killed.
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.
2007 - Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s CEO, announced the first generation iPhone.
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