SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010

Today is Saturday, January 9, the ninth day of 2010. There are 356 days left in the year.

1493 _ First sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)

1793 _ Jean Pierre Blanchard makes first balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)

1799 _ Income Tax introduced in U.K.

1834 _ HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia

1894 _ ``Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters

1905 _ Bloody Sunday _ demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops

1945 _ U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines

1969 _ Concorde jetliner's first test flight (Bristol, England)

1987 _ Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed

1998 _ Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned