February 9
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February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 325 days remaining, 326 in leap years.
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Events
- 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
- 1825 - After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1885 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
- 1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
- 1895 - William G. Morgan invents volleyball.
- 1900 - Davis Cup competition is established.
- 1920 - By the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
- 1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
- 1942 - Daylight-saving time goes into effect in the United States.
- 1943 - World War II, Battle of Guadalcanal: After forcing the remaining Japanese to be evacuated the night before, American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure.
- 1950 - Red scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States State Department of being filled with Communists.
- 1960 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
- 1971 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
- 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
- 1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
- 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
- 1994 - Peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina announced (so called Vance-Owen peace plan).
- 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf
- 2001 - American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks Ehime-Maru the Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
Births
- 1409 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
- 1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo and samurai (d. 1611)
- 1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician
- 1748 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841)
- 1800 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
- 1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman sultan (d. 1876)
- 1834 - Felix Dahn, author (d. 1912)
- 1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, automotive designer and industrialist (d. 1929)
- 1865 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, nee Beatrice Stella Tanner, British actress (d. 1940)
- 1874 - Amy Lowell, poet (d. 1925)
- 1885 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
- 1885 - Anita Ree, painter (d. 1933)
- 1891 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)
- 1892 - Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978)
- 1895 - Hermann Brill, politician (d. 1959)
- 1897 - Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, pioneering aviator (d. 1935)
- 1901 - Brian Donlevy, Irish actor (d. 1972)
- 1902 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader during Germany's Third Reich (d. 1999)
- 1909 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
- 1909 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer (d. 1995)
- 1909 - Heather Angel, British actress (d. 1986)
- 1910 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
- 1911 or 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress (d. 1970)
- 1914 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer (d. 1984)
- 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American dancer, actress (d. 1970)
- 1914 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986)
- 1916 - Tex Hughson, Major League Baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1922 - Kathryn Grayson, actress
- 1923 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964)
- 1928 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator
- 1928 - Roger Mudd, journalist
- 1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
- 1932 - Gerhard Richter, painter and graphic artist
- 1936 - Clive Swift, British actor
- 1939 - Janet Suzman, South African actress
- 1939 - Barry Mann, American singer-songwriter
- 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, South African author
- 1941 - Sheila Kuehl, American actress and politician
- 1942 - Carole King, American singer and composer
- 1943 - Joe Pesci, actor
- 1944 - Alice Walker, writer
- 1945 - Mia Farrow, American actress
- 1949 - Judith Light, American actress
- 1952 - Mookie Wilson, Major League Baseball player
- 1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, British actor
- 1955 - Jm J. Bullock, American actor and comedian
- 1960 - Holly Johnson, British singer (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
- 1961 - John Kruk, baseball player and commentator
- 1963 - Brian Greene, string theorist
- 1963 - Travis Tritt, country music singer
- 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
- 1970 - Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer
- 1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Major League Baseball player
- 1979 - Mena Suvari, actress
- 1979 - David Gray, English snooker player
- 1979 - Zhang Ziyi, actress
- 1981 - John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
- 1985 - David Gallagher, American actor
- 1990 - Camille Winbush, American actress
- 1996 - Jimmy Bennett, child actor
Deaths
- 1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
- 1555 - Rev. Dr. Rowland Taylor, pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
- 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
- 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet (b. 1872)
- 1951 - Eddy Duchin, musician (b. 1910)
- 1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (b. 1868)
- 1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-American actress and singer
- 1969 - Gabby Hayes, actor
- 1976 - Percy Faith, musician, composer
- 1981 - Bill Haley, musician (Bill Haley and the Comets) (b. 1925)
- 1984 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
- 1993 - Frederick (Fred) Cossom Hollows, ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
- 1994 - Bud Wilkinson, American football coach
- 1995 - J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator
- 1995 - David Wayne, American actor
- 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/9)
- Today in History: February 9 (http://www.tnl.net/when/2/9)
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