What Happened On February 9

10 odd things that happened on February 9

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  1621 Oddly true

  Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

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  1539 First ever

  The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.

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  1964 First ever

  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.

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  1986 Oddly true

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

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  1941 Weird

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

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  1964 First ever

  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.

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  1855 Oddly true

  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.

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  1893 Oddly true

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

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  1098 First ever

  A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch.

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  1996 First ever

  Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, first created the chemical element copernicium.

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Observed today

• Alto of Altomünster
• Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
• Ansbert of Rouen
• Apollonia
• Bracchio
• Einion the King (Western Orthodoxy)
• Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire
• Maron (Maronite Church)
• Miguel Febres Cordero
• Nebridius
• Sabinus of Canosa
• Teilo (Wales)

• 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. Wikipedia →
• 2021Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 2018Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea. Wikipedia →
• 2016Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured. Wikipedia →
• 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 Pearl Harbor. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 1996Copernicium is discovered by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al. Wikipedia →
• 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union. Wikipedia →
• 1987Civil unrest broke out across Palestine. Wikipedia →
• 1986Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. Wikipedia →
• 1982Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board. Wikipedia →
• 1978The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wikipedia →
• 1976Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24. Wikipedia →
• 1975The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 1971Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame. Wikipedia →
• 1971Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 1959The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 1950Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 1945World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 1942Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. Wikipedia →
• 1941World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate. Wikipedia →
• 1934The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. Wikipedia →
• 1932Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law. Wikipedia →
• 1929Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities. Wikipedia →
• 1922Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. Wikipedia →
• 1920Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 1907The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). Wikipedia →
• 1904Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes. Wikipedia →
• 1900The Davis Cup competition is established. Wikipedia →
• 1895William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. Wikipedia →
• 1893Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, premieres at La Scala, Milan. Wikipedia →
• 1889US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. Wikipedia →
• 1870US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. Wikipedia →
• 1861American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama. Wikipedia →
• 1849The new Roman Republic is declared. Wikipedia →
• 1825After 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. Wikipedia →
• 1822Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola. Wikipedia →
• 1778Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. Wikipedia →
• 1775American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. Wikipedia →
• 1654The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War. Wikipedia →
• 1621Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. Wikipedia →
• 1555Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. Wikipedia →
• 1539The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee. Wikipedia →
• 1098A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch. Wikipedia →
• 1003Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. Wikipedia →
• 474Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. Wikipedia →