Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 9

January 9:

Film releases
 * 1980 - The Lathe of Heaven, based on the novel of the same name by Ursula K. Le Guin

Television series
 * 1996 - 3rd Rock from the Sun begins airing on NBC

Births
 * 1931 - Algis Budrys (d. 2008), a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic

Anniversaries and events
 * 1958 - X Minus One, a half-hour science fiction radio series, finishes airing on NBC Radio