Wiki143:Selected anniversaries/February 9
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Pope Gregory XV
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Bishop John Hooper of Gloucester
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Wreckage of the Ehime Maru,
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Volleyball
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Participants in the Mud March
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U.S. vs. Italy volleyball game at the 3rd Military World Games
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Joseph McCarthy
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John Quincy Adams
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Jefferson Davis
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The Beatles arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport
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| 474 – As the seven-year-old Leo II was deemed too young to rule, his father Zeno was crowned as co-Byzantine Emperor. | refimprove section |
| 1555 – Marian martyr John Hooper, the Bishop of Gloucester, was executed by burning. | unreferenced sections |
| 1621 – Alessandro Ludovisi became Pope Gregory XV, the last Pope elected by acclamation. | multiple issues |
| 1893 – Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, premiered at La Scala, Milan. | POTD for 2022 |
| 1895 – William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director in Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S., invented a game called Mintonette, which evolved into volleyball. | needs expert attention |
| 1945 – World War II: Template:HMS sank U-864 in the only time where one submarine has intentionally sunk another while both were at periscope depth. | refimprove section |
| 1959 – The Soviet R-7 Semyorka, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, became fully operational. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1234 – Caizhou, the capital of the Jin dynasty, was captured by the Mongol Empire and their Song allies, bringing an end to Jurchen rule.
- 1799 – Quasi-War: USS Constellation captured the French frigate Insurgente in a single-ship action in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1855 – A series of hoof-like marks in the snow continuing through the countryside for some 40 to 100 miles (60 to 160 km) were discovered in Devon, England.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis was named the provisional president of the Confederate States of America.
- 1907 – More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March (pictured), the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
- 1913 – A meteor procession was observed along a great circle arc from Canada to Brazil, leading astronomers to conclude that its source was a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
- 1920 – The Svalbard Treaty was signed in Paris, recognizing Norwegian sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
- 1923 – Stanley Bruce became prime minister of Australia as leader of the country's first Coalition government.
- 1942 – The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Kranji as part of their campaign to capture Singapore.
- 1943 – World War II: Allied forces declared Guadalcanal secure, ending the Guadalcanal campaign as a significant strategic victory for Allied forces fighting Japan in the Pacific War.
- 1964 – As Beatlemania swept the United States, the Beatles (pictured) made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show before a record-breaking audience, beginning a musical phenomenon known as the British Invasion.
- 1971 – An earthquake registering 6.6 Mw struck the northern San Fernando Valley near the Los Angeles district of Sylmar, killing 65 people.
- 1976 – The Australian Defence Force was formed by the integration of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Royal Australian Air Force.
- 1996 – Breaking a seventeen-month ceasefire, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a powerful truck bomb in the London Docklands, killing two people and injuring more than a hundred others.
- 1996 – Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, first created the chemical element copernicium.
- 2001 – The American submarine Template:USS collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by a high school, sinking the latter ship and killing nine people on board.
- 2016 – Two commuter trains collided head-on at Bad Aibling in southeastern Germany, killing 12 people and injuring 85.
- Born/died: | Minamoto no Yoritomo |d|1199| Agnès Sorel |d|1450| John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania |d|1600| Judith Quiney |d|1662| George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney |b|1666| Thomas Paine |b|1737| Aletta Jacobs |b|1854| Alberto Vargas |b|1896| Gerhard Richter |b|1932| Howard Martin Temin |d|1994| Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon |d|2002| Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda |d|2003
Notes
- Richard Mentor Johnson appears on February 8, so John Quincy Adams should not appear in the same year
February 9: Feast day of Saint Apollonia (in Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1825 – After no candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the previous year's presidential election, the United States House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams (pictured) as president in a contingent election.
- 1945 – World War II: Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førde Fjord, Norway.
- 1950 – U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy accused 205 employees of the State Department of being communists, sparking a period of strong anti-communist sentiment known as McCarthyism.
- 1975 – The spacecraft and crew of the Soviet Soyuz 17 mission returned to earth after 29 days in orbit at the Salyut 4 station.
- 2020 – Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu won the Four Continents Championships to become the only man to complete a Super Slam.
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