February 9

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Day of the week 2017 Thursday		Western zodiac Aquarius
Events Swiss immigration referendum, February 2014 Famous birthdays Tom Hiddleston, Rose Leslie, Michael B Jordan, Joe Pesci, Carole King

February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 325 days remaining until the end of the year (326 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

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Events

474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.

1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.

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 President of the United States.

1849 – The new Roman Republic was declared.

1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.

1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.

1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.

1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.

1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.

1920 – Under 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.

1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.

1941 – World War II: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.

1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.

1943 – World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.

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 attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.

1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

1951 – Korean War: Geochang massacre

1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.

1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.

1965 – 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.

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.

1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

1978 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.

1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.

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 first discovered.

2016 – Two passenger trains collided in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people died, and 85 others were injured.

Births

1060 – Pope Honorius II (d. 1130)

1274 – Saint Louis of Toulouse (d. 1297)

1313 – Maria of Portugal, Portuguese infanta (d. 1357)

1344 – Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol (d. 1363)

1441 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, Turkish poet, linguist, and painter (d. 1501)

1533 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo (d. 1611)

1579 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch classic scholar (d. 1639)

1666 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish field marshal (d. 1737)

1711 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (d. 1762)

1737 – Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist (d. 1809)

1741 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, German-French composer (d. 1799)

1748 – Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1817)

1763 – Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)

1769 – George W. Campbell, Scottish-American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1848)

1773 – William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)

1775 – Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1856)

1781 – Johann Baptist von Spix, German biologist and explorer (d. 1826)

1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (d. 1852)

1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand (d. 1849)

1800 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)

1814 – Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)

1815 – Federico de Madrazo, Spanish painter (d.1894)

1834 – Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author (d. 1912)

1837 – José Burgos, Filipino priest and revolutionary (d. 1872)

1839 – Silas Adams, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 1896)

1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (d. 1929)

1846 – Whitaker Wright, English businessman and financier (d. 1904)

1847 – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh-English clergyman and theologian (d. 1902)

1854 – Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician and suffrage activist (d. 1929)

1856 – Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1921)

1859 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (d. 1930)

1863 – Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (d. 1933)

1864 – Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)

1865 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English-French actress (d. 1940)

1865 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (d. 1949)

1867 – Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (d. 1916)

1871 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist and physician (d. 1910)

1874 – Amy Lowell, American poet, critic, and educator (d. 1925)

1880 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)

1883 – Jules Berry, French actor and director (d. 1951)

1885 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1935)

1885 – Clarence H. Haring, American historian and author (d. 1960)

1889 – Larry Semon, American actor, producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1928)

1891 – Ronald Colman, English-American actor (d. 1958)

1892 – Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978)

1893 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987)

1895 – Hermann Brill, German lawyer and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (d. 1959)

1896 – Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1982)

1897 – Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian captain and pilot (d. 1935)

1898 – Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet and educator (d. 1927)

1901 – Brian Donlevy, American actor (d. 1972)

1901 – James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)

1905 – David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, English hurdler and politician (d. 1981)

1906 – André Kostolany, Hungarian-French economist and journalist (d. 1999)

1907 – Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (d. 1988)

1907 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (d. 2003)

1909 – Heather Angel, English-American actress (d. 1986)

1909 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1955)

1909 – Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)

1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)

1911 – William Orlando Darby, American general (d. 1945)

1912 – Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (d. 1968)

1912 – Ginette Leclerc, French actress (d. 1992)

1914 – Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)

1916 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)

1920 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (d. 2012)

1922 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress and soprano (d. 2010)

1922 – Jim Laker, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1986)

1922 – C. P. Krishnan Nair, Indian businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (d. 2014)

1922 – Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (d. 2005)

1923 – Brendan Behan, Irish rebel, poet, and playwright (d. 1964)

1923 – Tonie Nathan, American radio host, producer, and politician (d. 2014)

1925 – John B. Cobb, American philosopher and theologian

1925 – Burkhard Heim, German physicist and academic (d. 2001)

1926 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011)

1927 – Richard A. Long, American historian and author (d. 2013)

1928 – Frank Frazetta, American painter and illustrator (d. 2010)

1928 – Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2005)

1928 – Roger Mudd, American journalist

1929 – A. R. Antulay, Indian social worker and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2014)

1929 – Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (d. 2005)

1930 – Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist and author (d. 2003)

1931 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1989)

1931 – Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2015)

1931 – Robert Morris, American sculptor and painter

1932 – Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager

1932 – Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer

1935 – Lionel Fanthorpe, English-Welsh priest, journalist, and author

1936 – Clive Swift, English actor and songwriter

1937 – Clete Boyer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)

1938 – Ron Logan, Disney theatrical producer and professor

1939 – Barry Mann, American pianist, songwriter, and producer

1939 – Janet Suzman, South African-British actress and director

1940 – Brian Bennett, English drummer and songwriter

1940 – J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureate

1941 – Sheila Kuehl, American actress, lawyer, gay rights activist, and politician

1942 – Carole King, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1943 – Barbara Lewis, American soul/R&B singer-songwriter

1943 – Joe Pesci, American actor

1943 – Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1944 – Derryn Hinch, New Zealand-Australian radio and television host and politician

1944 – Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, and poet

1945 – Mia Farrow, American actress, activist, and former fashion model

1945 – Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese cell biologist, 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

1945 – Carol Wood, American mathematician and academic

1946 – Bob Eastwood, American golfer

1946 – Vince Papale, American football player and sportscaster

1946 – Jim Webb, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of the Navy

1947 – Carla Del Ponte, Swiss lawyer and diplomat

1947 – Joe Ely, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1947 – Major Harris, American R&B singer (d. 2012)

1947 – Alexis Smirnoff, Canadian-American wrestler and actor

1948 – Guy Standing, English economist and academic

1949 – Bernard Gallacher, Scottish golfer and journalist

1949 – Judith Light, American actress

1950 – Richard F. Colburn, American sergeant and politician

1951 – David Pomeranz, American singer, musician, and composer

1952 – Danny White, American football player and sportscaster

1953 – Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor

1953 – Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary, priest, and martyr (d. 1985)

1953 – Gabriel Rotello, American journalist and author, founded OutWeek

1954 – Jo Duffy, American author

1954 – Chris Gardner, American businessman and philanthropist

1955 – Jerry Beck, American historian and author

1955 – Jimmy Pursey, English singer-songwriter and producer

1955 – Charles Shaughnessy, English actor

1956 – Mookie Wilson, American baseball player and coach

1957 – Terry McAuliffe, American businessman and politician, 72nd Governor of Virginia

1957 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager

1958 – Sandy Lyle, Scottish golfer

1958 – Chris Nilan, American ice hockey player, coach, and radio host

1960 – Holly Johnson, English singer-songwriter and bass player

1960 – Peggy Whitson, American biochemist and astronaut

1961 – John Kruk, American baseball player and sportscaster

1962 – Anik Bissonnette, Canadian ballerina

1963 – Brian Greene, American physicist

1963 – Peter Rowsthorn, Australian comedian and actor

1963 – Travis Tritt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1964 – Debrah Miceli, Italian-American wrestler and manager

1964 – Dewi Morris, English rugby player

1965 – Dieter Baumann, German runner

1966 – Harald Eia, Norwegian comedian, actor, and screenwriter

1967 – Todd Pratt, American baseball player and coach

1968 – Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

1968 – Derek Strong, American basketball player and race car driver

1969 – Jimmy Smith, American football player

1970 – Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

1971 – Matt Gogel, American golfer

1971 – Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer and manager

1972 – Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager

1973 – Svetlana Boginskaya, Belarusian gymnast

1973 – Colin Egglesfield, American actor

1973 – Makoto Shinkai, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter

1974 – Brad Maynard, American football player

1974 – Amber Valletta, American model

1974 – John Wallace, American basketball player and coach

1975 – Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist and coach

1975 – Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2008)

1975 – Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player

1976 – Charlie Day, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1978 – A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter

1979 – Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player

1979 – Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater

1980 – Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer

1980 – Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress

1980 – Manu Raju, American journalist

1981 – Tom Hiddleston, English actor, producer, and musical performer

1981 – Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler

1982 – Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer

1982 – Jameer Nelson, American basketball player

1982 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress

1982 – Chris Weale, English footballer and manager

1983 – Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer

1984 – Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer

1985 – David Gallagher, American actor

1987 – Sam Coulson, English guitarist

1987 – Michael B. Jordan, American actor

1987 – Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer

1987 – Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete

1988 – Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer

1989 – Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier

1990 – Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

1991 – Logan Ryan, American football player

1992 – Kyle Feldt, Australian rugby league player

1992 – Mitchell Frei, Australian rugby league player

1993 – Niclas Füllkrug, German footballer

1995 – André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player

Deaths

967 – Sayf al-Dawla, Emir of Aleppo (b. 916)

1011 – Bernard I, Duke of Saxony (b. 950)

1135 – Emperor Taizong of Jin (b. 1075)

1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)

1251 – Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine

1450 – Agnès Sorel, French mistress of Charles VII of France (b. 1421)

1555 – John Hooper, English bishop and martyr (b. 1495)

1555 – Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (b. 1510)

1588 – Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (b. 1526)

1619 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1585)

1670 – Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)

1675 – Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (b. 1613)

1709 – François Louis, Prince of Conti (b. 1664)

1777 – Seth Pomeroy, American general and gunsmith (b. 1706)

1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier, poet, and philosopher (b. 1716)

1857 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and translator (b. 1798)

1874 – Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (b. 1798)

1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1821)

1891 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)

1906 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1872)

1930 – Richard With, Norwegian captain and businessman, founded Hurtigruten (b. 1846)

1932 – Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and banker (b. 1869)

1932 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (b. 1904)

1945 – Ella D. Barrier, American educator (b. 1852)

1951 – Eddy Duchin, American pianist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1910)

1957 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (b. 1868)

1960 – Alexandre Benois, Russian painter and critic (b. 1870)

1960 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1877)

1965 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and educator (b. 1874)

1966 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (b. 1884)

1969 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)

1976 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)

1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)

1978 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)

1979 – Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)

1980 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)

1981 – M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)

1981 – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)

1984 – Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)

1989 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)

1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)

1995 – J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)

1995 – David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)

1998 – Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)

2001 – Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

2002 – Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (b. 1920)

2002 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)

2003 – Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1926)

2004 – Claude Ryan, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1925)

2005 – Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper (b. 1927)

2006 – Freddie Laker, English pilot and businessman, founded Laker Airways (b. 1922)

2007 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922)

2007 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)

2008 – Christopher Hyatt American occultist and author (b. 1943)

2008 – Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian painter, poet, and sculptor (b. 1931)

2009 – Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Cuban bassist and composer (b. 1933)

2010 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American businessman, invented the Frisbee (b. 1920)

2011 – Miltiadis Evert, Greek lawyer and politician, 69th Mayor of Athens (b. 1939)

2012 – O. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)

2012 – John Hick, English philosopher and academic (b. 1922)

2012 – Joe Moretti, Scottish-South African guitarist and songwriter (b. 1938)

2013 – Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (b. 1923)

2013 – Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (b. 1913)

2013 – Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (b. 1931)

2014 – Gabriel Axel, Danish actor, director, and producer (b. 1918)

2014 – Hal Herring, American football player and coach (b. 1924)

2014 – Logan Scott-Bowden, English general (b. 1920)

2015 – Liu Han, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (b. 1965)

2015 – Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (b. 1916)

2016 – Sushil Koirala, Nepalese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)

2016 – Zdravko Tolimir, Bosnian Serb military commander (b. 1948)

2017 – André Salvat, French Army colonel (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

Ansbert of Rouen

Apollonia

Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire

Maron (Maronite Church)

Miguel Febres Cordero

Teilo (Wales)

February 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest day on which Clean Monday can fall, while March 15 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of Great Lent. (Eastern Christianity)

Earliest day on which People's Sunday can fall, while March 15 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent. (Malta)

St. Maroun's Day (public holiday in Lebanon)

References

February 9 Wikipedia

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February 9–10, 2010 North American blizzard

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