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
- 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
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
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