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.
- 1621 –Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1922 –Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 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.
- 1959 –The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
- 1964 –The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a “record-busting” audience of 73 million viewers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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