What are the important events that happened on February 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 9 is the 40th day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 27, 2016 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 24,249,600 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetracontagon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 354 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,145 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 9 Historical Events
- 1825 –After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, 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.
- 1904 –Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
- 1920 –Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
- 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: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
- 1950 –Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
- 1975 –The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
- 2005 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on February 9?
- 1645 –Johann Aegidius Bach, German violist (d. 1716)
- 1928 –Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (d. 2005)
- 1937 –Tomislav Gotovac, Croatian movie director, actor, performer, multimedia and conceptual artist (d. 2010.)
- 1939 –Janet Suzman, South African actress
- 1943 –Barbara Lewis, American singer and songwriter
- 1945 –Gérard Lenorman, French singer
- 1958 –Chris Nilan, hockey player
- 1962 –Anik Bissonnette, French-Canadian ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)
- 1975 –Clinton Grybas, Australian football commentator (d. 2008)
- 1979 –Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
Who died on February 9?
- 1199 –Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
- 1450 –Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
- 1881 –Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
- 1906 –Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)
- 1973 –Max Yasgur, American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (b. 1919)
- 1976 –Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
- 1977 –Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
- 2002 –Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
- 2004 –Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
- 2006 –Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
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