SomeFacts | February 9

On this day - February 9

474 — Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

1003 — Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from ...

1098 — A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major ...

1539 — The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known ...

1555 — Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

1621 — Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

1654 — The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the ...

1775 — American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares ...

1778 — Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the ...

1822 — Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the ...

1825 — After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in ...

1849 — The new Roman Republic is declared.

1861 — American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional ...

1870 — US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of ...

1889 — US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the ...

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

1895 — William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon ...

1900 — The Davis Cup competition is established.

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

1907 — The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the ...

1913 — A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern ...

1920 — Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international ...

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

1929 — Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor ...

1932 — Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national ...

1934 — The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, ...

1941 — World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo ...

1942 — Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated ...

1943 — World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare ...

1945 — World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack ...

1945 — World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 ...

1950 — Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the ...

1951 — Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a ...

1959 — The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic ...

1961 — The Beatles at the Cavern Club: Lunchtime – The Beatles ...

1964 — The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan ...

1965 — Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 ...

1971 — Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third ...

1971 — Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be ...

1971 — The 6.5–6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles ...

1975 — The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

1976 — Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff ...

1978 — The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled ...

1982 — Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an ...

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

1987 — Civil unrest broke out across Palestine.

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

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

1996 — The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its ...

2001 — The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, ...

2016 — Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling ...

2018 — Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang ...

2020 — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter ...

2021 — Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.

2025 — The Baltic states synchronize their electric power ...