February 9th - This Date in History

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Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- February 9th
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* 474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
* 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
* 1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
* 1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
* 1849 – New Roman Republic established
* 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
* 1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.
* 1885 – The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
* 1889 – The United States Department of Agriculture is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
* 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
* 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
* 1904 – Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur
* 1920 – Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
* 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
* 1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
* 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
* 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: 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.
* 1950 – Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
* 1960 – Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
* 1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
* 1971 – The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
* 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
* 1973 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
* 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
* 1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
* 1994 – Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
* 1995 – Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
* 1996 – The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by the explosion of a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
* 2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
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