About February 9
February 9, 2025 is the 40th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 325 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 are 373 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 9
- 474 –Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1788 –The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
- 1849 –New Roman Republic established
- 1870 –President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
- 1889 –President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
- 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.
- 1922 –Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1934 –The Balkan Entente is formed.
- 1942 –Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
- 1951 –Geochang massacre: Korean War
- 1969 –First test flight of the Boeing 747.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
- 1991 –Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
- 1995 –Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
- 2005 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
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