Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 9, 2021

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 * 475 – Basiliscus became Byzantine Emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople.
 * 1917 – First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border in present-day Rafah.
 * 1972 – The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest of any team in American professional sports.
 * 1981 – U.S. Representative Raymond Lederer was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for his role in the Abscam scandal, but continued to serve his term for three more months.
 * 1992 – Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12, generally considered the first definitive detection of exoplanets.
 * 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched raids in the city of Kizlyar, Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
 * 2011 – In poor weather conditions, Iran Air Flight 277 crashed near Urmia Airport, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, killing at least 77.
 * Born/died: William Dugard (b. 1606)· Lady Randolph Churchill (b. 1854)· Carrie Chapman Catt (b. 1859)· Joseph Parker (b. 1992)· Makinti Napanangka (d. 2011)· Lei Jieqiong (d. 2011)