January 9

On This Day In History
	2005: Election of Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas, who was a founder of Fatah in the 1950s and had served briefly as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2003 under Yasir 'Arafat, was elected president of the PA on this day in 2005.
Mahmoud Abbas campaigning for the Palestinian Authority presidency, December 2004.
Biography Of The Day
	Richard M. Nixon Born this day in 1913 was Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States (1969–74), who held office during the Vietnam War and became, in the wake of the Watergate Scandal, the only U.S. president to resign.
Richard M. Nixon.
More Events On This Day In History
2001	Australian scientists said that analysis of DNA taken from 60,000-year-old local human remains showed no links with human ancestors from Africa, suggesting that Africa was not the only site of the genesis of the human species.
	1908 Simone de Beauvoir, French writer and feminist who gave a literary transcription to the themes of existentialism, was born in Paris.
	1861 Mississippi became the second U.S. state (after South Carolina) to secede from the Union, in the run-up to the American Civil War.
	1839 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France proclaimed his invention of the daguerreotype, the first commercially successful form of photography.