January 9th, 2009

Today in History

1997:
A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro Airport, killing 29.

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

1956:
First "Dear Abby" column appears in newspapers.

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.

1861:
Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War.