Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 9

January 9: Coming-of-Age Day in Japan (2006)

1768 - Philip Astley staged the first modern circus in London.
1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, Louis Daguerre.
1878 - Humbert the Good became King of Italy.
1916 - World War I: In Gallipoli, the Ottoman Empire was victorious in the Battle of Çanakkale.
1964 - Martyrs' Day in Panama. 4 days of fighting between US armed forces and Panamanian civilians to end the Canal Zone.

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