January 9th, 2009

Today in History

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.

1878:
Humbert I becomes King of Italy.

1863:
American Civil War: Battle of Fort Hindman

1806:
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.