Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!
Our Mission: It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.
Goals:
To increase English Language Arts achievement by 10%To increase Mathematics achievement by 10%
To increase Science Achievement by 10%
picture by C. Cardona
Check out this graphic about global education. The things above water are just the tip of the iceberg. Try to go deeper in your instruction and touch some of the issues below the surface.
ISS
Specialists will begin holding ISS in their respective areas on their assigned days. The schedule is below. Teachers, specialists may be contacting you for work for students assigned to ISS. Please get them work as soon as possible.
Day
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Teacher
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Location
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A
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Arora
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Room 213
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B
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Bowen
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Music
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C
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King
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Art
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D
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Childers/McMasters
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Media/CL
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E
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Lindquist
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Gym
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We know you guys are working hard. Thank you.
3 visual images to confirm why teachers are necessary:
You are very necessary. Happy Friday.
Announcements:
Sad News: Robin Fisher's father passed away yesterday. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers. See Mrs. Clodfelter for arrangement details.
5th Grade Science Test Today! Give them some encouragement this morning!
No recess today? Try some of these activities:
Check out Speas in the news:
We have a Speas Symbaloo page.
http://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eOcMEZPT#email: djjohnson@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
pass: speasbees2014
Please email us with your favorite educator sites so we can create a huge selection of online resources.
SMOD Tickets (dress code violations) are located in the workroom. Please keep the bottom portion for your own records as a way to keep track of the number of violations. The continuum is as follows:
1st offense: verbal warning, and letter will be sent home to be signed. Parent or guardian notified of violation
2nd offense: Teacher notifies parent or guardian and student is removed from class until proper SMOD is delivered.
(Teachers, we all should be enforcing this, it will only work if we all enforce it).
Calendar
Date
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PLT
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Encore
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T/M
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Gym
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Events/Reminders
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1.9
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2
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A
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X
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5th Grade Science EOQ, Happy Birthday Canty!
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1.12
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3
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B
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X
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Math Quarter Test 3-5
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1.13
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4
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C
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X
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CWT Review, Reading Quarter Test
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1.14
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5
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D
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X
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1.15
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6
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E
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X
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Happy Birthday Summey!!!!!!!!; Ash out meeting
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1.16
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1
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A
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Y
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Quarter Test window closes
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1.17
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Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
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1.20
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Happy Birthday Linville!!!!!!!!!
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1.21
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2
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B
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Y
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1.22
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3
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C
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Y
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Johnson out AM
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1.23
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4
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D
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Y
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Happy Birthday Brown!!!!!!!!
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1.24
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Happy Birthday Bushey!!!!!!!!!
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1.26
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5
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E
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Y
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1.27
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6
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A
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X
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Report Cards go home
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1.28
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1
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B
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X
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1.29
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2
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C
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X
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Johnson out Quarterly Awards go home
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1.30
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3
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D
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X
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TRC Dibels benchmark closes, Fitness Fundraiser Zumba
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2.3
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Ash out AM; Access Testing window opens
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2.4
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2.5
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2.6
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2.9
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Happy Birthday Billingsley!!!!!!!
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2.10
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IC meeting learning walks
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2.11
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Early Release
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2.12
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Ash out AM; Canty Out-Meeting
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2.13
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Yoforia Movie Night
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2.15
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Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
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2.16
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No School(workday)
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2.17
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2.18
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2.19
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2.20
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2.22
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Happy Birthday Cokely!!!!!!!!!!
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2.23
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Ash out AM
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2.24
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2.25
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Johnson out AM
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2.26
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Evan meet w/grade levels; Happy Birthday Ryabova!!!!!!!!!
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2.27
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3.1
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3.7
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Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
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3.12
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Ash out AM; Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
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3.14
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Access Testing window closes
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3.17
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Canty Out-Meeting
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3.19
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Evan w/ Teachers; Happy Birthday Pfitzner!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
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3.23
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Quarter Testing Begins Happy Birthday Smith!!!!!!!
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3.25
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Johnson out AM
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3.27
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Johnson out; Quarter Testing Ends Happy Birthday Ferguson!!!!!!!
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3.29
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Happy Birthday Mitchell!!!!!!!!
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4.7
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Ash out AM
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4.8
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Evan mtg w/grade levels
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4.9
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Quarterly Awards
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4.10
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1st Grade Dan Nicholas Park 8:30-2:00
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4.13
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Canty out-training
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4.14
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Report Cards go home
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4.16
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Happy Birthday Hooker; Ash out AM; Yoforia Spirit Night
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4.17
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Kids Night In Movie Night
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4.21
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IC mtg. Instr. strategies
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4.22
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Johnson out- AM
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4.23
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Johnson out
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4.26
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5.1
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Canty out meeting
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5.5
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Ash out AM
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5.14
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Ash out AM; Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night
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5.7
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4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
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5.20
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Johnson out AM
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5.22
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1st Grade NC Zoo 8:00-2:00 PM; Yoforia Movie Night; Ready EOG window opens
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6.5
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Ready EOG window closes
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6.7
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Water Day
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On This Day in World History
Today in History
January 9
| 1719 | Philip V of Spain declares war on France. | |
| 1776 | Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, a scathing attack on King George III's reign over the colonies and a call for complete independence. | |
| 1792 | The Ottomans sign a treaty with the Russians ending a five year war. | |
| 1793 | Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight in North America. | |
| 1861 | Southern shellfire stops the Union supply ship Star of the West from entering Charleston Harbor on her way to Fort Sumter. | |
| 1861 | Mississippi secedes from the Union. | |
| 1908 | Count Zeppelin announces plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers. | |
| 1909 | A Polar exploration team lead by Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees, 23 minutes south longitude, 162 degrees east latitude. They are 97 nautical miles short of the South Pole, but the weather is too severe to continue. | |
| 1912 | Colonel Theodore Roosevelt announces that he will run for president if asked. | |
| 1915 | Pancho Villa signs a treaty with the United States, halting border conflicts. | |
| 1924 | Ford Motor Co. stock is valued at nearly $1 billion. | |
| 1943 | Soviet planes drop leaflets on the surrounded Germans in Stalingrad requesting their surrender with humane terms. The Germans refuse. | |
| 1945 | U.S. troops land on Luzon, in the Philippines, 107 miles from Manila. | |
| 1947 | French General Leclerc breaks off all talks with Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh. | |
| 1952 | Jackie Robinson becomes the highest paid player in Brooklyn Dodger history. | |
| 1964 | U.S. forces kill six Panamanian students protesting in the canal zone. | |
| 1974 | Cambodian Government troops open a drive to avert insurgent attack on Phnom Penh. | |
| 1992 | The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of a new state within Yugoslavia, the Rupublika Srpska. | |
| 1996 | A raid by Chechen separatists in the city of Kizlyar turns into a hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. | |
| 2005 | Mahmoud Abbas wins election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. | |
| 2005 | The Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War is signed by the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement. | |
| 2007 | Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveils the first iPhone. | |
| Born on January 9 | ||
| 1554 | Gregory XV, Roman Catholic Pope. | |
| 1890 | Karel Capek, Czech writer and playwright, best remembered for his play R.U.R., which contained the first use of the word "robot." | |
| 1913 | Richard Nixon, 37th President of the U.S. and first President to resign from office. | |
| 1941 | Joan Baez, American folk singer and activist. | |
| 1944 | Jimmy Page, musician, songwriter, producer; member of The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and other bands. | |
| 1963 | Michael Everson, American and Irish linguist; a leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts. | |
| 1967 | Dave Matthews, singer, songwriter, guitarist, actor; leader of Dave Matthews Band and Dave Matthews & Friends. | |
| 1982 | Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Middleton); wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Upon William's assumption of the British throne, the Duchess would become queen consort. | |
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