January 9th, 2009

Today in History

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.

1903:
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia

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

1857:
Fort Tejon earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.9