January 9th, 2009

Today in History

1989:
The Sega Genesis is released in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California.

1986:
After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.

1912:
Marines invade Honduras.

1905:
According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.

1768:
Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London).