January 9th (1998) was a Friday. It's the 8th day of the year (9th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days left to the end of the year.
January 9th Famous Deaths for 1998
» Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
» Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
» Imi Lichtenfeld, Slovakian-Israeli martial artist, founder of Krav Maga self-defense system (b. 1910)
January 9th Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Adrian of Canterbury
» Metropolitan Philip or Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow
» Julia Chester Emery (Episcopal Church (USA))
» January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Black Nazarene named Feast of the Black Nazarene (Manila, Philippines)