January 9th, 1913President Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon oversaw Cold War day time for the Soviet Union and China while winding down the Vietnam War. But he became the only president to ever resign facing likely impeachment over the Watergate scandal.

1972Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by phone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, says a purported biography of him is a fake.

1968“Surveyor Seven”, American’s last unmanned probe the moon lands on the lunar surface. The following year Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin make history is the first humans to set foot on the moon.

And 2006“The Phantom of the Opera is there, inside my mind.”

In New York, “The Phantom of the Opera” leaps past “Cat” to become the longest-running show in Broadway history.

Today in History, January 9th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.