February 9, 1942, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner on the seas at that time, France’s S.S. Normandie, catches fire while in the process of being converted for military use by the United States. One person died and hundreds were injured, including firefighters.

Saint Apollonia - February 9 According to church tradition, her torture included having all of her teeth violently pulled out or shattered. For this reason, she is popularly regarded as the patroness of dentistry and those suffering from toothache or other dental problems.

"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." Brendan Behan 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964 Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican

"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." David Dean Rusk February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994 United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969

William Henry Harrison February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841 ninth President of the United States, March 4 to April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in U.S. history.

February 9, 2021 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins

February 9, 2001 – The 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.

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

February 9, 1978 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

February 9, 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.

February 9, 1971 – The 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.

February 9, 1964 – 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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenW...

February 9, 1950 – Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

February 9, 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. Japanese American women playing volleyball at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II in c. 1943

February 9, 1893 – Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan.

February 9, 1889 President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.

February 9, 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.

February 9, 1825 – After 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.

February 9, 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

February 9, 1946 Charles "Lucky" Luciano, an American Mafia boss, was transported from a New York prison to an ocean liner, and deported to his native Italy.

February 9, 1946 Stalin, in his first major public speech after the end of World War II, said that another war was inevitable because of the "capitalist development of the world economy", and that the USSR would need to concentrate on national defense in advance of a war with the Western nations.

February 9, 1946 In the most well-known example of a recurrent nova, T Coronae Borealis, nicknamed the "blaze star", was seen to flare up almost 80 years after a nova seen on May 12, 1866.

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Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita, FDCC c. 1869 – 8 February 1947 Sudanese Catholic religious sister who joined the Canossians after winning her freedom from slavery. She served in Italy for 50 years until her death in 1947. She was canonized in 2000

John Towner Williams born February 8, 1932 American composer and conductor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE5g...

"My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me." John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001 American actor.

"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." William Tecumseh Sherman February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891 American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

February 8, 1983 – A dust storm hits Melbourne, resulting in the worst drought on record and severe weather conditions in the city.

February 8, 1968 – American civil rights movement: An attack on Black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation leaves three dead and 28 injured in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

February 8, 1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. The Stasi identity card of Vladimir Putin, who worked in Dresden as a KGB liaison officer to the Stasi

Fenruary 8, 1924 The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada. Gee Jon, member of the Hip Sing Tong criminal society from San Francisco. Gee was sentenced to death for the murder of Tom Quong Kee, who was a member of the rivaling Bing Kung Tong in Mina, Nevada

February 8, 1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial landmark film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, portrayed in blackface by white actor Walter Long

February 8, 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.

February 8, 1887 – The Dawes Act is enacted, authorizing the U.S. President to divide Native American tribal land into individual allotments.

February 8, 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes the adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

February 8, 1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first and only Vice President of the United States chosen by the Senate. His term was largely unremarkable, and he enjoyed little influence with President Van Buren.

February 8, 1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the second-oldest institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

February 8, 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I

February 8, 1946 Kim Il Sung was elected Chairman of the Interim People's Committee in the Soviet occupied portion of Korea. Kim, who led the northern branch of the Korean Communist Party, would become the first leader of North Korea.

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Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita, FDCC c. 1869 – 8 February 1947 Sudanese Catholic religious sister who joined the Canossians after winning her freedom from slavery. She served in Italy for 50 years until her death in 1947. She was canonized in 2000

John Towner Williams born February 8, 1932 American composer and conductor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE5g...

"My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me." John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001 American actor.

"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." William Tecumseh Sherman February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891 American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

February 8, 1983 – A dust storm hits Melbourne, resulting in the worst drought on record and severe weather conditions in the city.

February 8, 1968 – American civil rights movement: An attack on Black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation leaves three dead and 28 injured in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

February 8, 1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. The Stasi identity card of Vladimir Putin, who worked in Dresden as a KGB liaison officer to the Stasi

Fenruary 8, 1924 The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada. Gee Jon, member of the Hip Sing Tong criminal society from San Francisco. Gee was sentenced to death for the murder of Tom Quong Kee, who was a member of the rivaling Bing Kung Tong in Mina, Nevada

February 8, 1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial landmark film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, portrayed in blackface by white actor Walter Long

February 8, 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.