January 9th, 2009

Today in History

1880:
The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.

1431:
The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.

1929:
The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).

1995:
Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.

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.