The 9t o Februar is the 40t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 325 days ti come (326 in lowp years).
Events
- 1825 - John Quincy Adams is confirmed as Preses o the Unitit States.
- 1849 - The New Roman Republic is creatit.
- 1920 - The Svalbard Treaty is signed - Norawa keeps sovereignty ower the Airctic Archipelago.
- 1964 - End o the 1964 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Innsbruck, Austrick.
- 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show durin their tour o the Unitit States.
- 1971 - 28 fowk are kilt in the Aitring train accident in Bavarie.
- 1971 - The San Fernando Valley in Californie is hit bi a yirdquauk, killin 65 fowk.
- 1971 - Apollo 14 returns tae the Yird frae the Muin.
- 1986 - Halley's Comet passes the inner Solar Seestem.
- 1991 - Voters in Lithuanie support the kintra's unthirldom frae the Soviet Union in a referendum.
- 1996 - Chemical element Copernicium is discovered.
- 2000 - Rhodri Morgan becomes First Meenister o Wales.
- 2014 - Voters in Swisserland, bi a small majority, support a limit tae immigration frae the European Union.
- 2016 - A train collision near Bad Aibling, Bavarie, Germany, kills 12 fowk.
- 2018 - The openin ceremony o the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Sooth Korea, taks place. The twa Korean teams mairch intae the stadium thegither.
- 2020 - Storm Ciara hits the Unitit Kinrick.
- 2020 - 92nt Academy Awairds: Sooth Korean film Parasite, directit bi Bong Joon-ho, wins the maist awairds.
- 2021 - The Unitit Arab Emirates' "Hope" spacecraft enters intae orbit aroond Maurs.
Births
- 1060 - Pape Honorius II (d. 1130)
- 1737 - Thomas Paine, Inglis-American writer, philosopher an statesman (d. 1809)
- 1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1841)
- 1830 - Abdülaziz o the Ottoman Empire (d. 1876)
- 1897 - James Stuart, 1st Viscoont Stuart o Findhorn, Scots politeecian (d. 1971)
- 1926 - Garret FitzGerald, Erse Taoiseach (d. 2011)
- 1932 - Gerhard Richter, German airtist
- 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, Sooth Africae writer
- 1943 - Joe Pesci, American actor
- 1944 - Alice Walker, American writer an activist
- 1945 - Mia Farrow, American actress
- 1945 - Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese cell biologist
- 1946 - Jim Webb, American politeecian
- 1948 - David Hayman, Scots actor
- 1949 - Judith Light, American actress
- 1957 - Gordon Strachan, Scots fitbawer an manager
- 1958 - Sandy Lyle, Scots gowfer
- 1959 - Filipe Nyusi, Preses o Mozambique
- 1959 - Ali Bongo Ondimba, Preses o Gabon
- 1960 - Peggy Whitson, American astronaut
- 1966 - Kool Shen (Bruno Lopes), Portuguese-born French rapper an record producer (Suprême NTM)
- 1968 - Alejandra Guzman, Mexican sangster an actress
- 1979 - Zhang Ziyi, Cheenese actress
- 1981 - Tom Hiddleston, Inglis actor
- 1984 - Han Geng, Cheenese actor an sangster
- 1987 - Rose Leslie, Scots actress
- 2001 - Erraid Davies, Scots soummer
Daiths
Halidays
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