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This day in history: 9 February

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Key facts

391 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 9 February.
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2025: The Baltic states synchronize their electric power transmission infrastructure with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA), in objective to disconnect from the Russo-Belarussian agreement to use the IPS/UPS system.

Holidays and observances

Alto of Altomünster

Ansbert of Rouen

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire

Einion the King (Western Orthodoxy)

Maron (Maronite Church)

Miguel Febres Cordero

Sabinus of Canosa

Events

2025The Baltic states synchronize their electric power transmission infrastructure with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA), in objective to disconnect from the Russo-Belarussian agreement to use the IPS/UPS system.

2021Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.

2020Salvadoran 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.

2018Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.

2016Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.

2001The 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 Pea

1996Copernicium is discovered by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.

1996The 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.

1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.

1987Civil unrest broke out across Palestine.

1986Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.

1982Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.

1978The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1976Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.

1975The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

1971Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.

1971Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.

1971The 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.

1965Vietnam 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.

1964The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.

1961The Beatles at the Cavern Club: Lunchtime – The Beatles perform under this name at The Cavern Club for the first time following their return to Liverpool from Hamburg.

1959The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.

1951Korean 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.

1950Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

1945World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.

1945World 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.

1943World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.

1942Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.

1941World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.

1934The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.

1932Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.

1929Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.

1922Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1920Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.

1913A 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.

1907The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

1904Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.

1900The Davis Cup competition is established.

1895William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

1893Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, premieres at La Scala, Milan.

Born on this day

2007Ryan Coleman-Williams, American football player

2003Cooper DeJean, American football player

2002Jalen Green, American basketball player

2001Dylan Cozens, Canadian ice hockey player

1998Cem Bölükbaşı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer

1998Isabella Gomez, Colombian-American actress

1997Jaire Alexander, American football player

1997Saquon Barkley, American football player

1997Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player

1996Chung Ha, South Korean singer

1996Jimmy Bennett, American actor

1996Kelli Berglund, American actress

1996Sebastián Driussi, Argentinian footballer

1995André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player

1995Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer

1995Sheraldo Becker, Surinamese footballer

1993Despina Papamichail, Greek tennis player

1993K. J. McDaniels, American basketball player

1993Niclas Füllkrug, German footballer

1993Wataru Endo, Japanese footballer

1992Avan Jogia, Canadian actor

1991Helena Kmieć, Polish Roman Catholic missionary (died 2017)

1991Logan Ryan, American football player

1990Camille Winbush, American actress

1990Randall Delgado, Panamanian baseball player

1990Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

1989Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier

1987Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer

1987Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete

1987Michael B. Jordan, American actor

1987Rose Leslie, Scottish actress

1985David Gallagher, American actor

1985Nigel Dawes, Canadian-Kazakhstani ice hockey player

1984Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player

1984Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer

1984Shōhōzan Yūya, Japanese sumo wrestler

1983Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer

1982Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress

1982Chris Weale, English footballer and manager

1982Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer

Died on this day

2025Tom Robbins, American writer (born 1932)

2022Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1939)

2021Chick Corea, American jazz composer (born 1941)

2018Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic composer (born 1969)

2018John Gavin, American actor and United States ambassador to Mexico (born 1931)

2018Reg E. Cathey, American actor of stage, film, and television (born 1958)

2017André Salvat, French Army colonel (born 1920)

2016Sushil Koirala, Nepalese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (born 1939)

2016Zdravko Tolimir, Bosnian Serb military commander (born 1948)

2015Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (born 1916)

2015Liu Han, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (born 1965)

2014Gabriel Axel, Danish actor, director, and producer (born 1918)

2014Hal Herring, American football player and coach (born 1924)

2014Logan Scott-Bowden, English general (born 1920)

2013Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (born 1931)

2013Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (born 1913)

2013Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (born 1923)

2012Joe Moretti, Scottish-South African guitarist and songwriter (born 1938)

2012John Hick, English philosopher and academic (born 1922)

2012O. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

2011Miltiadis Evert, Greek lawyer and politician, 69th Mayor of Athens (born 1939)

2010Walter Frederick Morrison, American businessman, invented the Frisbee (born 1920)

2009Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Cuban bassist and composer (born 1933)

2008Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (born 1932)

2008Christopher Hyatt, American occultist and author (born 1943)

2008Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian painter, poet, and sculptor (born 1931)

2007Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (born 1922)

2007Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (born 1934)

2006Freddie Laker, English pilot and businessman, founded Laker Airways (born 1922)

2005Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the intermittent windscreen wiper (born 1927)

Quote of the day

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

Alan Watts

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