Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 9

This is a list of selected February 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Pope Gregory XV
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  Bishop John Hooper of Gloucester
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  Wreckage of the Ehime Maru,
  off Oahu, Hawaii
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  Volleyball
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  U.S. vs. Italy volleyball game at the 3rd Military World Games
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  Joseph McCarthy
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  John Quincy Adams
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  Participants in the Mud March
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  Jefferson Davis

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
474 – As the seven-year-old Leo II was deemed too young to rule, his father Zeno was crowned as co-Byzantine Emperor.	refimprove section
1555 – Marian martyr John Hooper, the Bishop of Gloucester, was executed by burning.	unreferenced sections
1621 – Alessandro Ludovisi became Pope Gregory XV, the last Pope elected by acclamation.	multiple issues
1893 – Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, premiered at La Scala, Milan.	POTD for 2022
1895 – William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director in Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S., invented a game called Mintonette, which evolved into volleyball.	needs expert attention
1945 – World War II: HMS Venturer sank U-864 in the only time where one submarine has intentionally sunk another while both were at periscope depth.	refimprove section
1959 – The Soviet R-7 Semyorka, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, became fully operational.	refimprove

Eligible

• 1799 – Quasi-War: USS Constellation captured the French frigate Insurgente in a single-ship action in the Caribbean Sea.
• 1825 – After no candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the previous year's presidential election, the United States House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams as president in a contingent election.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis was named the provisional president of the Confederate States of America.
• 1907 – More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March, the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
• 1920 – The Svalbard Treaty was signed in Paris, recognizing Norwegian sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
• 1943 – World War II: Allied forces declared Guadalcanal secure, ending the Guadalcanal campaign as a significant strategic victory for Allied forces fighting Japan in the Pacific War.
• 1945 – World War II: Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førde Fjord, Norway.
• 1950 – U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy accused 205 employees of the State Department of being communists, sparking a period of strong anti-communist sentiment known as McCarthyism.
• 1971 – An earthquake registering 6.6 M_w struck the northern San Fernando Valley near the Los Angeles district of Sylmar, killing 65 people.
• 1996 – Breaking a seventeen-month ceasefire, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a powerful truck bomb in the London Docklands, killing two people and injuring more than a hundred others.
• 1996 – Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, first created the chemical element copernicium.
• 2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by a high school, sinking the latter ship and killing nine people on board.
• 2016 – Two Meridian commuter trains were involved in a head-on collision at Bad Aibling in southeastern Germany that left 12 dead and 85 others injured.
• Born/died: | Agnès Sorel |d|1450| John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania |d|1600| Judith Quiney |d|1662| George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney |b|1666| Thomas Paine |b|1737| Adele Spitzeder |b|1832| Aletta Jacobs |b|1854| Alberto Vargas |b|1896| Howard Martin Temin |d|1994| Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda |d|2003

Notes

• Richard Mentor Johnson appears on February 8, so John Quincy Adams should not appear in the same year

February 9

The Beatles arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport

• 1234 – The Jin dynasty capital of Caizhou was captured by Mongols and their Song allies, bringing an end to Jurchen rule.
• 1855 – 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.
• 1913 – A meteor procession was visible across much of eastern North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude that its source was a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
• 1964 – As Beatlemania swept the U.S., 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.
• 1976 – The Australian Defence Force was formed by the integration of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Royal Australian Air Force.

• Minamoto no Yoritomo (d. 1199)
• Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
• Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)

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