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
- 474 –Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1788 –The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
- 1825 –After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
- 1870 –President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
- 1895 –William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
- 1900 –The Davis Cup competition is established.
- 1922 –Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 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: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
- 1951 –Geochang massacre: Korean War
- 1967 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1995 –Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
- 1996 –The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London’s Canary Wharf.
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