January 9th, 2009

Today in History

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.

1917:
Battle of Rafa

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

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

1793:
Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.