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

• 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

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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