January 09

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1768	In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.	Braid	Circus of the Stars	Movie Music Vol. 1
2.	1788	Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.	The Impossibles	Connecticut	Return
3.	1793	Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.	Maximum Balloon (feat. Theophilus London)	Groove Me	Maximum Balloon
4.	1816	Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.	Blind Willie Johnson with Willie B. Harris	Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning	Dark Was the Night (1927-1930)
5.	1861	American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War".	The 1985	Warning Shot	Nerve Eighty
6.	1905	According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palacethat ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.	The Cardigans	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	Life
7.	1947	Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.	The Black Dahlia Murder	Hymn for the Wretched	Unhallowed

(Historical facts about January 09 are from Wikipedia.)