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.
- 1555 –Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
- 1849 –New Roman Republic established
- 1870 –President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
- 1885 –The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
- 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.
- 1934 –The Balkan Entente is formed.
- 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
- 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.
- 1971 –The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
- 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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