What happened on 9 January?

6 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1908 Born: Simone de Beauvoir Existentialist philosopher; founding text of modern feminism in The Second Sex.
2. 1913 Born: Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States (1969-1974). Opened relations with China, ended US ground combat in Vietnam, and resigned in disgrace over the Watergate scandal — the only Pres
3. 1915 Gandhi returns to India After twenty-one years in South Africa — where a young lawyer thrown off a train invented satyagraha, the discipline of truth-force — the 45-year-old Gandhi lands at Bombay, alread
4. 1909 Shackleton turns back 97 miles short On the Nimrod expedition, Shackleton hauls to within 97 nautical miles of the Pole — further south than anyone in history — and turns around, because going on means his party starv
5. 1957 Eden resigns, broken by Suez His health wrecked and his authority destroyed by the fiasco and the lie to Parliament, Anthony Eden resigns after twenty months as prime minister — the shortest peacetime premiers
6. 1982 Born: Catherine, Princess of Wales Wife of Prince William.