About February 9
February 9, 2024 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.
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Aquarius is the sun 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.
What Happened On February 9
- 1555 –Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
- 1621 –Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
- 1788 –The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
- 1849 –New Roman Republic established
- 1861 –American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1895 –William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
- 1904 –Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
- 1922 –Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 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: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
- 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.
- 1951 –Geochang massacre: Korean War
- 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.
- 1971 –Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
- 1971 –Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1973 –Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
- 1995 –Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
- 2001 –The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
- 2005 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
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