January 9th, 2009

Today in History

1945:
The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.

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

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.

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

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