February 9
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
\n* 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.\n* 1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope.\n* 1775 - American Revolutionary War: English Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.\n* 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.\n* 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.\n* 1885 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.\n* 1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.\n* 1895 - W.G. Morgan invents volleyball.\n* 1900 - Davis Cup competition is established.\n* 1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.\n* 1942 - Daylight-saving time goes into effect in the United States.\n* 1950 - Red scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States State Department of being filled with Communists.\n* 1960 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n* 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance The Ed Sullivan Show.\n* 1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.\n* 1971 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.\n* 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.\n* 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.\n* 1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.\n* 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.\n* 1994 - Peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina announced (so called Vance-Owen peace plan).\n* 1997 - The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series.\n* 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)\n* 1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician\n* 1748 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (d. 1826)\n* 1769 - Susette Gontard, girl-friend of poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)\n* 1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841)\n* 1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, future Ottoman sultan (d. 1876)\n* 1834 - Felix Dahn, author (d. 1912)\n* 1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, designer of engines and cars, industrialist (d. 1929)\n* 1874 - Amy Lowell, poet (d. 1925)\n* 1885 - Alban Berg, composer (d. 1935)\n* 1885 - Anita Ree, painter (d. 1933))\n* 1891 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)\n* 1895 - Hermann Brill, politician (d. 1959)\n* 1909 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer (d. 1995)\n* 1909 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)\n* 1910 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976)\n* 1911 or 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, ecdesiast (d. 1970)\n* 1914 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer (d. 1984)\n* 1922 - Kathryn Grayson, actress\n* 1923 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964)\n* 1928 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator\n* 1928 - Roger Mudd, journalist\n* 1932 - Gerhard Richter, painter and graphic artist\n* 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, author\n* 1942 - Carole King, singer, composer\n* 1943 - Joe Pesci, actor\n* 1944 - Alice Walker, writer\n* 1945 - Mia Farrow, actress\n* 1961 - John Kruk, baseball player, commentator\n* 1963 - Travis Tritt, country music singer\n* 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete\n* 1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Major League Baseball All-Star\n* 1977 - Shakira, Colombian pop singer\n* 1979 - Mena Suvari, actress\n* 1979 - David Gray, English snooker player\n* 1980 - Zhang Ziyi, actress\n* 1981 - John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban
Deaths
\n* 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author (b. 1821)\n* 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet (b. 1872)\n* 1951 - Eddy Duchin, musician (b. 1910)\n* 1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent (b. 1868)\n* 1969 - Gabby Hayes, actor\n* 1976 - Percy Faith, musician, composer\n* 1981 - Bill Haley, musician ("Bill Haley and the Comets") (b. 1925)\n* 1984 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)\n* 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
February 8 - February 10 - January 9 - March 9 -- listing of all days
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