Holidays January 9, 2025: name days, signs

Today, January 9, 2025, is International Choreographer Day. There are 356 days until the New Year.

January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days left until the end of the year (357 days in leap years).

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• International Choreographer’s Day.

• Word Nerd Day.

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What happened on January 9

• 475 – The Eastern Roman Emperor Flavius ​​​​​​Zeno is deposed from the throne by Basilisk, a relative of Zeno’s wife.

• 1431 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen, presided over by Bishop Cauchon.

• 1449 – the first written mention of a lottery organized in Milan to finance the war against Venice.

• 1599 – the oldest officially registered Masonic lodge was created in Musselburgh (Scotland).

• 1648 – Bohdan Khmelnitsky was elected hetman of the Zaporozhye Sich.

• 1799 – In the UK, the world’s first income tax is introduced.

• 1816 – First test of the Davy lamp at Gebburn mines, North-East England.

• 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.

• 1916 – Entente attempt to capture the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits during World War I ends in Entente defeat.

• 1923 – Spanish inventor Juan de La Cierva made the first flight in a gyroplane he invented.

• 1923 – Germany defaults due to its failure to fulfill reparations obligations under the Treaty of Versailles. Two days later, France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr.

• 1927 – 78 people died in a Montreal movie theater in a panic caused by a small explosion of a movie camera, 77 of them children under 18 years old.

• 1951 – The headquarters of the United Nations is officially opened in New York.

• 1960 – construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile in Egypt begins.

• 1972 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth, then the largest passenger ship in the world, caught fire and sank in Hong Kong harbor.

• 1992 – Guinea, Venezuela and Chile recognize Ukraine’s independence.

• 1992 – Ukraine establishes diplomatic relations with the DPRK.

• 2005 – Former Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas wins the Palestinian Authority presidential election, replacing the late Yasser Arafat.

• 2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the first iPhone.

• 2021 – A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes in Indonesia.

Who was born on January 9

• 1987 – Elena Pidhrushna, Ukrainian biathlete, Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine, Olympic champion.

• 1993 – Stepan Tarabalka, Ukrainian Air Force officer. Hero of Ukraine.

What is today’s name day?: Zakhar, Pavel, Peter, Philip, Antonina.

Folk signs and traditions for January 9

• Crows sitting on a tree mean severe frosts.

• Clear weather – expect a bountiful harvest.

• The cat is lying with its stomach up – there will be warming.

• The cat climbs on the stove at night until it cools down.

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