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Year | Name |
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2021 | Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began. |
2020 | Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis. |
2018 | Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea. |
2016 | Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured. |
2001 | The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.[17][18][19][20] |
1996 | The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people. |
1996 | Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al. |
1991 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union. |
1986 | Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. |
1982 | Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board. |
1978 | The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1976 | Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24. |
1975 | The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. |
1971 | The 6.5–6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000. |
1971 | Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame. |
1971 | Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. |
1965 | Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission. |
1964 | The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States. |
1959 | The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. |
1951 | Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea. |
1950 | Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. |
1945 | World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. |
1945 | World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway. |
1943 | World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. |
1942 | Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. |
1941 | World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate. |
1934 | The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. |
1932 | Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.[11] |
1929 | Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities. |
1922 | Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1920 | Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized. |
1913 | A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. |
1907 | The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). |
1904 | Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes. |
1900 | The Davis Cup competition is established. |
1895 | William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. |
1893 | Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan. |
1889 | US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. |
1870 | US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. |
1861 | American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama |
1849 | The new Roman Republic is declared. |
1825 | After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election. |
1822 | Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola. |
1788 | The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp. |
1778 | Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. |
1775 | American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. |
1654 | The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War. |
1621 | Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. |
1555 | Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. |
1539 | The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee. |
1003 | Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. |
474 | Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. |
Here is a random list who born on February 9. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1914 | Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984) |
1975 | Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2008) |
1926 | Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011) |
1985 | David Gallagher, American actor |
1982 | Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer |
1864 | Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941) |
1978 | A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter |
1936 | Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (d. 2019) |
1947 | Carla Del Ponte, Swiss lawyer and diplomat |
1946 | Vince Papale, American football player and sportscaster |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on February 9. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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2012 | O. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
1777 | Seth Pomeroy, American general and gunsmith (b. 1706) |
1976 | Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908) |
1803 | Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier, poet, and philosopher (b. 1716) |
2005 | Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper (b. 1927) |
1989 | Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928) |
2011 | Miltiadis Evert, Greek lawyer and politician, 69th Mayor of Athens (b. 1939) |
2008 | Christopher Hyatt, American occultist and author (b. 1943) |
1014 | Yang Yanzhao, Chinese general |
1965 | Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and educator (b. 1874) |