January 9th, 2009

Today in History

2005:
Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat.

1917:
Battle of Rafa

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

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