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. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Jan – '''February''' – Mar |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |- style="text-align:center;" | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |- style="text-align:center;" | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |- style="text-align:center;" | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |- style="text-align:center;" | 29 | (30) |colspan=6| |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangementAll days |} ==Events== * 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope. * 1775 - American Revolutionary War: English 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. * 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. * 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 ''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). * 1997 - ''The Simpsons'' surpasses ''The Flintstones'' as the longest-running prime-time animated series. * 2001 - American submarine ''USS Greeneville'' accidentally strikes and sinks ''Ehime-Maru'' the Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School. * 2004 - Mozilla Firefox: Browser renamed from ''Firebird'' to ''Firefox'' ==Births== * 1409 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453) * 1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician * 1748 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (d. 1826) * 1769 - Susette Gontard, girl-friend of poet Friedrich Hlderlin (d. 1802) * 1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841) * 1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, future Ottoman sultan (d. 1876) * 1834 - Felix Dahn, author (d. 1912) * 1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, designer of engines and cars, industrialist (d. 1929) * 1874 - Amy Lowell, poet (d. 1925) * 1885 - Alban Berg, composer (d. 1935) * 1885 - Anita Ree, painter (d. 1933)) * 1891 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958) * 1895 - Hermann Brill, politician (d. 1959) * 1897 - Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, pioneering aviator (d. 1935) * 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) * 1910 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976) * 1911 or 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, ecdesiast (d. 1970) * 1914 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer (d. 1984) * 1922 - Kathryn Grayson, actress * 1923 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964) * 1928 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator * 1928 - Roger Mudd, journalist * 1932 - Gerhard Richter, painter and graphic artist * 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, author * 1942 - Carole King, singer, composer * 1943 - Joe Pesci, actor * 1944 - Alice Walker, writer * 1945 - Mia Farrow, actress * 1961 - John Kruk, baseball player, commentator * 1963 - Travis Tritt, country music singer * 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete * 1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Major League Baseball All-Star * 1977 - Shakira, Colombian pop singer * 1979 - Mena Suvari, actress * 1979 - David Gray, English snooker player * 1980 - Zhang Ziyi, actress * 1981 - John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban ==Deaths== * 1555 - Rev. Dr. Rowland Taylor, pastor, martyred under Bloody Mary I (b. 1510) * 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author (b. 1821) * 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet (b. 1872) * 1951 - Eddy Duchin, musician (b. 1910) * 1957 - Mikls Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent (b. 1868) * 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) * 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930) ==Holidays and observances== ---- February 8 - February 10 - January 9 - March 9 -- listing of all days {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} af:02-09 bg:9 февруари ca:9 de febrer cy:9 Chwefror da:9. februar de:9. Februar et:9. veebruar es:9 de febrero eo:9-a de februaro fr:9 fvrier fy:9 febrewaris hr:9. veljače is:9. febrar it:9 febbraio he:9 בפברואר lt:Vasario 9 lb:9. Februar hu:Februr 9 nl:9 februari ja:2月9日 no:9. februar oc:9 de febrir pl:9 lutego ro:9 februarie ru:9 февраля sa:९ फरवरी sl:9. februar fi:9. helmikuuta sv:9 februari tr:9 Şubat uk:9 лютого zh:2月9日
