WHAT HAPPENED ON 9. JANUARY
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The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow. (9. January 1880)

New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. (9. January 1894)

Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. (9. January 1903)

Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. (9. January 1909)

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded. (9. January 1914)

World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. (9. January 1916)

World War I: the Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine. (9. January 1917)

Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. (9. January 1918)

Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia. (9. January 1921)

Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. (9. January 1923)

Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. (9. January 1923)

A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children. (9. January 1927)

Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens. (9. January 1938)

World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster. (9. January 1941)

World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. (9. January 1941)

World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines. (9. January 1945)

Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive. (9. January 1947)

President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. (9. January 1960)

Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians. (9. January 1964)

The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). (9. January 1965)