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
- 1555 –Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
- 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.
- 1889 –President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
- 1900 –The Davis Cup competition is established.
- 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.
- 1934 –The Balkan Entente is formed.
- 1942 –World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
- 1942 –Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
- 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.
- 1951 –Geochang massacre: Korean War
- 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.
- 1969 –First test flight of the Boeing 747.
- 1971 –Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1975 –The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
- 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.
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