January 9

The ninth day of January.

Events

 * 1349: The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, is rounded up and incinerated. (See antisemitism)
 * 1431: Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
 * 1806: Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
 * 2005: Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.

Births

 * 1554: Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623).
 * 1902: Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975).
 * 1958: Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II.

Roman Catholicism
* Adrian of Canterbury

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow (1569)
 * Theophan the Recluse
 * Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259)
 * Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker (821)
 * Prophet Shemaiah (10th century BC)
 * Saint Peter of Sebaste, bishop in Armenia (391)
 * Repose of Elder Jonah, founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1902)