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What Happened on February 9th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began.
2020	Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis.
2018	Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.
2016	Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.
2001	The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.[17][18][19][20]
1996	The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
1996	Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
1991	Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
1986	Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
1982	Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.
1978	The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1976	Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
1975	The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1971	The 6.5–6.7 Mw  Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
1971	Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971	Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
1965	Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
1964	The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
1959	The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1951	Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.
1950	Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1945	World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945	World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
1943	World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1942	Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1941	World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
1934	The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
1932	Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.[11]
1929	Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
1922	Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1920	Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1913	A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1907	The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1904	Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1900	The Davis Cup competition is established.
1895	William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1893	Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan.
1889	US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1870	US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1861	American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama
1849	The new Roman Republic is declared.
1825	After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.
1822	Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.
1788	The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1778	Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1775	American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1654	The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1621	Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1555	Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1539	The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.
1003	Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
474	Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

Famous People Born on February 9

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Year	Name
1932	Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer
1973	Svetlana Boginskaya, Belarusian gymnast
1931	Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1865	Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English-French actress (d. 1940)
1922	Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (d. 2005)
1960	Holly Johnson, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1834	Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author (d. 1912)
1789	Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand (d. 1849)
1880	Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)
1972	Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager

Famous People Deaths On February 9

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Date	Name
1857	Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and translator (b. 1798)
1998	Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
2006	Freddie Laker, English pilot and businessman, founded Laker Airways (b. 1922)
1588	Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (b. 1526)
2013	Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (b. 1923)
1903	Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (b. 1816)
1950	Ted Theodore, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Queensland (b. 1884)
1906	Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1872)
1014	Yang Yanzhao, Chinese general
1957	Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (b. 1868)