Notable Historical Events on February 9th
February 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
474 |
Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire together with his son Leo II. |
1267 |
Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps |
1499 |
France & Venice sign treaty against Milan |
1537 |
Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England |
1540 |
The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester) |
1554 |
Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated |
1555 |
Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. |
1574 |
Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht |
1621 |
Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623) |
1667 |
Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty |
1674 |
English reconquer NY from Netherlands |
1682 |
Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London |
1742 |
British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford |
1744 |
Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews) |
1775 |
English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion |
1788 |
Austria declares war on Russia |
1799 |
USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I |
1801 |
France & Austrian sign Peace of Luneville |
1807 |
French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon |
1822 |
American Indian Society organizes |
1822 |
Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic. |
1825 |
House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president |
1849 |
Roman Republic declared in Rome replacing following flight of Pope Pius IX |
1861 |
Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of the Confederate States of America (US Civil War) |
1861 |
Tennessee votes against secession (US Civil War) |
1861 |
Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states (US Civil War) |
1870 |
US Army establishes US National Weather Service |
1871 |
Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress |
1885 |
1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii |
1886 |
Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence |
1889 |
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency. |
1891 |
1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento |
1893 |
Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud |
1893 |
Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan |
1895 |
1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3) |
1895 |
Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts |
1900 |
Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup |
1904 |
Japanese land troops at Chemulpo (Inchon), near Seoul, Korea; within the next three weeks they will have advanced to the Yalu River, border of Manchuria |
1906 |
Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising |
1909 |
1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) |
1909 |
1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio |
1912 |
US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion |
1913 |
-18] 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die |
1916 |
Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) |
1916 |
NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20) |
1918 |
Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va |
1918 |
Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris |
1920 |
International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard |
1920 |
Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs |
1922 |
Italian government of Bonomi falls |
1922 |
Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii |
1922 |
Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1923 |
Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms |
1924 |
Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR |
1925 |
German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France |
1925 |
Haifa Technion (Israel), opens |
1926 |
Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools |
1929 |
USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact |
1932 |
America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time |
1932 |
US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY) |
1933 |
-63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record) |
1934 |
-14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City |
1934 |
-51°F (-46°C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record) |
1934 |
Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania) |
1935 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1935 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
1939 |
Belgian Spaak government falls |
1940 |
Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1941 |
British troops conquer El Agheila |
1941 |
Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe) |
1942 |
Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US |
1942 |
Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes |
1942 |
Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils" |
1943 |
FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry |
1943 |
German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp |
1943 |
Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic WWII battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific |
1943 |
NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears |
1943 |
Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents |
1944 |
U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland |
1945 |
-Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen |
1945 |
WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire |
1945 |
The Battle of the Atlantic the HMS Venturer sinking U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway. |
1946 |
Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms |
1947 |
Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia |
1948 |
WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists |
1951 |
St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45 |
1953 |
"Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication |
1953 |
WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1953 |
General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA |
1954 |
Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy |
1955 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law |
1955 |
US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO |
1956 |
-5°F (15°C) in Sicily |
1956 |
KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1956 |
R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria |
1959 |
Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2 |
1960 |
AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact |
1961 |
Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo |
1962 |
Jamaica signs agreement to become independent |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
1st flight of Boeing 727 jet |
1963 |
7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7") |
1964 |
1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers) |
1964 |
9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria |
1964 |
GI Joe character created |
1964 |
Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi |
1964 |
NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV |
1966 |
Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points |
1968 |
Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix |
1969 |
Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight |
1969 |
KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
Apollo 14 returns to Earth |
1971 |
Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family |
1971 |
Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 & causes over $½B damage |
1971 |
Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF |
1971 |
5 men are killed near a BBC transmitter on Brougher Mountain, County Tyrone, in a landmine attack carried out by the Irish Republican Army |
1972 |
Brit government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike |
1972 |
William Craig, who had been Northern Ireland Minister for Home Affairs, launches 'Ulster Vanguard' as an umbrella movement for the right-ring of Unionism |
1973 |
Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India. |
1974 |
"Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41 |
1974 |
"The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24 |
1974 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
1974 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
1975 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
1975 |
Soyuz 17 returns to Earth |
1976 |
Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame |
1979 |
21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey |
1979 |
ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special |
1979 |
Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" |
1979 |
Nigeria amends constitution |
1980 |
Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8 3-pointers in a game |
1982 |
34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington |
1983 |
Belgium buys 44 F-16s |
1984 |
"Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 204 performances |
1985 |
Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks |
1986 |
36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas |
1986 |
Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) |
1986 |
Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen |
1986 |
Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title |
1986 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
1986 |
Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt |
1986 |
West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17) |
1987 |
Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide |
1987 |
NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club |
1988 |
39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St Louis |
1988 |
NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991) |
1989 |
Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
1989 |
Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election |
1990 |
"Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV |
1990 |
Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13) |
1990 |
Galileo flies by Venus |
1990 |
Namibia's constitution ratified |
1991 |
"This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46 |
1991 |
Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73) |
1991 |
Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice & beats him |
1991 |
US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case |
1991 |
Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration |
1992 |
"2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 perfs |
1992 |
42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando |
1992 |
Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ |
1992 |
Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) |
1992 |
Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10) |
1992 |
NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113 |
1992 |
Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary |
1993 |
Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma |
1994 |
Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat |
1995 |
"Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances |
1995 |
Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec) |
1996 |
WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM |
1996 |
The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf. |
1997 |
11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds |
1997 |
47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland |
1997 |
Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am |
1997 |
LG Senior Golf Championship |
1997 |
Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational |
1997 |
Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am |
1997 |
Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history |
1998 |
Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze |
1998 |
6th ESPY Awards: Ken Griffey Jr, Mia Hamm win |
2001 |
The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School. |
2002 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 38-30 |
2006 |
Al Michaels joins NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast with Johh Madden |
2011 |
Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday album reached number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart. |
2011 |
Latvia leaves deep recession with an annualised growth of 3.7% in the last quarter of 2010, it is reported today |
2013 |
5 people are killed after Cessna plane crashes on a Brussels runway |
2014 |
Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old |
2016 |
Train Crash in Germany Kills at Least 9, Injures 150 |
2016 |
Japan's Parliament Condemns North Korea Rocket Launch |
2016 |
Bernie Sanders declares victory in New Hampshire |
2016 |
Supreme Court blocks Obama climate change rules |
2017 |
Jeff Sessions confirmed as next US Attorney General |
2018 |
Court rejects appeals by 47 Russians against Olympic bans |
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