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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 27, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 474,288 hours 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.
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 is one day 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 4,067 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 9 Historical Events
- 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 government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
- 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 Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
- 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.
- 1959 –The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
- 1967 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 1971 –The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
- 1973 –Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
Who were born on February 9?
- 1892 –Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978)
- 1910 –Jacques Monod, French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
- 1922 –Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1925 –Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
- 1926 –Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 2011)
- 1931 –Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
- 1963 –Travis Tritt, American singer
- 1989 –Gia Farrell, American singer
- 1990 –Camille Winbush, American actress
- 1990 –Tyson Houseman, Canadian actor
Who died on February 9?
- 1555 –Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
- 1588 –Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral.
- 1752 –Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
- 1930 –Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and captain, founder of Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
- 1957 –Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
- 1973 –Max Yasgur, American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (b. 1919)
- 1978 –Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
- 1978 –Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
- 1980 –Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
- 1991 –James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
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