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1263Feb 9A Lithuania army under Treniota defeated the Livonian Knights of the Cross.
1267Feb 9Synod of Breslau ordered Jews of Silesia to wear special caps.
1404Feb 9Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, was born.
1540Feb 9The 1st recorded race met in England at Roodee Fields, Chester.
1555Feb 9John Hooper, the deprived Bishop of Gloucester, was burned for heresy.
1567Feb 9Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley, Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered in his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blew up. In 2003 Alison Weir authored “Mary, Queen of the Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley.”
1571Feb 9Algonquin Indians attacked the Jesuit mission on the Virginia peninsula killing Fr. Juan Bautista de Segura and 4 other remaining priests.
1578Feb 9Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright, actor (L’adamo), was born.
1602Feb 9Franciscus van de Enden, Flemish Jesuit, free thinker, tutor of Spinoza, was born.
1617Feb 9Hans Christoph Haiden (44), composer, died.
1640Feb 9Murad IV (27), sultan of Turkey (1623-40), died in Baghdad. Ibrahim (1640-1648) succeeded Murad IV in the Ottoman House of Osman.
1674Feb 9English reconquered NY from Netherlands.
1741Feb 9Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, was born.
1744Feb 9Battle at Toulon: French-Spanish faced the English fleet of Adm. Matthews.
1765Feb 9Elisabetta de Gambarini (33), composer, died.
1773Feb 9William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of the United States (March 4- April 4, 1841), was born in Charles City County, Va.
1775Feb 9English Parliament declared the Mass. colony was in rebellion.
1780Feb 9Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, was born.
1797Feb 9John Quincy Adams’ (Sr.) emerged victorious from America’s first contested presidential election.
1799Feb 9The USS Constellation captured the French frigate Insurgente off the coast of Wisconsin.
1807Feb 9French Sanhedrin was convened by Napoleon.
1812Feb 9Franz Anton Hoffmeister (57), composer, died.
1814Feb 9Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist, was born.
1819Feb 9Lydia E. Pinkham, patent-medicine maker and entrepreneur, was born.
1822Feb 9The American Indian Society organized.
1824Feb 9Anna Katharina Emmerick (b.1774), a sickly, virtually illiterate German nun, died. Her gory visions of Jesus’ last hours of suffering before his crucifixion drew pilgrims to her bedside in the years before her death. In 2004 she was beatified by Pope John Paul VI.
1825Feb 9The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams Jr. 6th U.S. president (1825-1829) after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
1834Feb 9Franz Xaver Witt, composer, was born.
1846Feb 9Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, was born. He designed the first Mercedes automobile.
1861Feb 9The Confederate Provisional Congress, meeting in Alabama, declared all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states. The Congress elected Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president. Jefferson Davis’ Mexican War exploits led him to the Confederate White House. In 2001 William C. Davis authored “The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens.”
1861Feb 9Tennessee voted against secession.
1863Feb 9A fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.
1863Feb 9Henri Dunant (1828-1910) addressed the Geneva Society for Public Welfare and asked the members to form a volunteer society to aid wounded soldiers. The Intl. Committee of Red Cross (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963) was formed in Geneva, Switz. The red cross design based on the Swiss flag with the colors reversed.
1864Feb 9After a courtship that began at a party on Thanksgiving Day 1862, Brevet General George Armstrong Custer and Miss Elizabeth Bacon, both of Monroe, Michigan, married. Until Custer died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn a dozen years later, Libbie followed him to postings throughout the West whenever possible. Libbie never remarried, even though she outlived her husband by 50 years, preferring to keep his memory alive by lecturing and writing books about their life together on the Plains. Elizabeth Custer lived comfortably in New York City until her death on April 8, 1933, at the age of 91.
1864Feb 9109 Union prisoners escaped through a tunnel from the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Va., including Lt. James M. Wells of Michigan. In 1904 Wells published an account of the escape in the Jan. issue of McClure’s Magazine.
1865Feb 9Wilson Bentley (d.1931) was born on a farm near Jericho, Vermont. His interest in snowflakes led him to make the 1st photographs of snow crystals on Jan 15, 1885.
1865Feb 9Mrs. [Beatrice] Patrick Campbell, actress (Pygmalion), was born in England.
1870Feb 9The U.S. Army established the US National Weather Service. Congress under continued petition from Smithsonian secretary Joseph Henry and colleagues, passed a military appropriation enabling the US Army Signal Service to make standardized weather observations.
1871Feb 9Howard T. Ricketts, pathologist, was born.
1874Feb 9Amy Lowell (d.1925), poet, critic, was born. “Youth condemns; maturity condones.”
1874Feb 9Jules Michelet (75), French historian (History of France), died. He was the first historian to use and define the word Renaissance (“Re-birth” in French), as a period in Europe’s cultural history that represented a drastic break from the Middle Ages.
1880Feb 9James Stephens (d.1950), Irish poet and novelist, was born. His work included “The Charwoman’s Daughter” and “The Crock of Gold.” “Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”
1881Feb 9Feodor M. Dostoevsky (59), Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), died.
1885Feb 9Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, was born in Vienna, Austria.
1885Feb 9The 1st Japanese arrived in Hawaii.
1886Feb 9President Cleveland declared a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence.
1886Feb 9Modest Mussorgsky’s (1839-1881) opera “Khovanschchina,” arranged by Rimsky-Korsakov, premiered in St. Petersburg. The Gregorian date is Feb 21.
1891Feb 9Ronald Colman, 1947 Academy Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities), was born in England.
1893Feb 9Giuseppe Verdi’s last opera, “Falstaff,” was first performed in Milan, Italy.
1893Feb 9Suez Canal builder De Lesseps and others were sentenced to prison for fraud.
1895Feb 9Volleyball was invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts. A game called “mintonette” was created by William George Morgan, physical director at the YMCA in Holyoke, Mass., to accommodate players who thought basketball was too strenuous. The objective was to hit a basketball over a rope. It was the predecessor to volleyball.
1902Feb 9Doctor Doyen of Paris, performed a successful operation on Siamese twins from the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
1904Feb 9Japanese troops landed near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.
1906Feb 9Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (33), son of former slaves, died of TB in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio.
1906Feb 9Natal proclaimed a state of siege in Zulu uprising.
1909Feb 9Dean Rusk, was born. He was Secretary of State (1961-1969) under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
1909Feb 9The 1st US federal legislation prohibiting narcotics was directed at opium.
1909Feb 9In San Francisco Louis’s Fashion Restaurant opened at 73 Sutter St. It had begun operations under Louis Besozzi in 1898, but was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. The new resaturant came to be called The Fly Trap due to fly paper rolls hung from the ceiling. Operations continued to 1963.
1909Feb 9France agreed to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy.
1913Feb 9Leo van der Kar, masseur, businessman, founder (Sports funds), was born.
1913Feb 9The 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico City when 3,000 died.
1914Feb 9Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper, was born in Seattle Wash.
1914Feb 9Bill “Rhymes with Wreck” Veeck, baseball club owner, was born.
1916Feb 9Conscription began in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.
1918Feb 9Army chaplain school organized at Ft. Monroe, Va.
1921Feb 9James Huneker (b.1857), American musical writer and critic, died.
1922Feb 9The U.S. Congress established the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
1923Feb 9Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and poet, was born in Dublin, Ireland. His work included “The Hostage” and “The Quare Fellow.”
1923Feb 9Norman E. Shumway, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon, was born in Mich.
1923Feb 9Soviet Aeroflot airlines formed.
1926Feb 9Teaching theory of evolution was forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia, schools.
1928Feb 9Frank Frazetta, American fantasy and science fiction artist, was born in Brooklyn. He became noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, record-album covers, and other media. In 2003, a feature film documenting the life and career of Frazetta was released, entitled: “Frank Frazetta: Painting With Fire.”
1933Feb 9The Oxford Union, Oxford University’s debating society, endorsed, 275-153, a motion stating “that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country,” a pacifist stand widely denounced by Britons.
1937Feb 9In San Francisco United Airlines DC-3 crashed 2 miles from Mills Field. The co-pilot had dropped his microphone which jammed the controls preventing the pilot from pulling out of the glide. The plane crashed killing all 11 aboard.
1941Feb 9British troops conquered El Agheila.
1941Feb 9Nazi collaborators destroyed the pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam. Alcazar had refused to hang “No Entry for Jews” signs in front.
1942Feb 9The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II.
1942Feb 9FDR reimposed daylight saving time (DST) in the US calling it “war time” with clocks turned one hour forward. It was repealed after the war. [see 1966]
1942Feb 9The former French cruise ship Normandie, launched in 1935, burned in New York Harbor during its conversion to an Allied trip transport ship. It was once regarded as most elegant ocean liner ever built. In 1947 it was cut up for scrap. In 2007 John Maxtone-Graham authored “Normandie.”
1942Feb 9Chiang Kai-shek met with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India. Detachment 101 harried the Japanese in Burma and provided close support for regular Allied forces.
1942Feb 9Japanese troops landed near Makassar, South Celebes.
1943Feb 9FDR ordered a minimal 48 hour work week in war industry.
1943Feb 9The World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied victory over Japanese forces.
1943Feb 9The Russians took back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Nazis.
1944Feb 9Alice Walker, Pulitzer prize winning author, was born. Her books include “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and “The Color Purple.”
1944Feb 9U-734 and U-238 sank off Ireland.
1945Feb 9[Maria] Mia Farrow, actress (Rosemary’s Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo, was born in LA.
1945Feb 9The German submarine U-864 with a crew of 73 sank about 2 1/2 miles off Fedje, Norway. It was on a desperate mission to supply Japan with advanced weapons technology and carried a poisonous cargo of 70 tons of mercury. Leakage of the mercury posed a severe threat in 2006 and plans were made to encase the wreck. In 2007 Norway’s government said it would be buried in special sand to protect the coastline.
1946Feb 9Stalin announced the new five-year plan for the USSR, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.
1947Feb 9Bank robber Willie Sutton escaped jail in Philadelphia.
1950Feb 9In a speech at the Republican Women’s Club in Wheeling, W. Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists and that he had a list of them. He asserted that Sec. of State Dean Acheson knew this and refused to do anything about it. McCarthy said there were 205 communists working in the US State Dept.
1951Feb 9St. Louis Browns signed baseball pitcher Satchel Paige (45).
1951Feb 9Actress Greta Garbo got U.S. citizenship.
1953Feb 9“Adventures of Superman” TV series premiered in syndication.
1953Feb 9General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ended term as 4th director of CIA. Allen W. Dulles, became acting director of CIA and served to 1961.
1953Feb 9The French destroyed six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam.
1955Feb 9US federations of trade unions agreed to merge into the AFL-CIO: The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1955Feb 9In South Africa some 2,000 policemen, armed with handguns, rifles and clubs known as knobkierries, forcefully moved the black families of Sophiatown to Meadowlands, Soweto.
1960Feb 9The Hollywood, Ca., Walk of Fame began with an installation of its first pink terrazzo star for, actress Joanne Woodward, at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. The first eight stars were dedicated in September 1958 and placed in the sidewalk on the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Ave.
1960Feb 9The Angelo Petri, the world’s largest wine tanker, foundered outside the San Francisco Golden Gate. It carried a capacity load of 2,383,000 gallons of wine and vegetable oil. In 1946 the vessel had broken in two near Honolulu.
1960Feb 9Ernst von Dohnanyi (82), US composer, died.
1961Feb 9Grigory Levenfish (70), Int’l. chess grandmaster from Russia, died.
1962Feb 9An agreement was signed to make Jamaica an independent nation within the British Commonwealth later in the year.
1963Feb 91st flight of Boeing 727 jet.
1964Feb 9The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
1964Feb 9The U.S. embassy in Moscow was stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.
1964Feb 9In Britain Maria Callas sang in a live production of Pucini’s Tosca produced at Covent Garden by Franco Zeffirelli. It was later made available on video.
1966Feb 9Sophie Tucker (79), Russian-US singer, actress (My Yiddish Mama), died.
1969Feb 9The Boeing 747, the world’s largest airplane, made its 1st commercial flight. The Juan T. Trippe, named after the founder of Pan Am, was sold in 2000 to a South Korea couple, who transformed it into an aviation themed restaurant. The venture failed in 2005 and the plane was demolished in late 2010.
1969Feb 9Gabby Hayes (b.1885), American film and TV actor, died. He played the sidekick to Hopalong Cassidy and later Roy Rogers Westerns.
1971Feb 9Satchel Paige became the 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF.
1971Feb 9The “Apollo 14” spacecraft returned to Earth after man’s third landing on the moon.
1974Feb 9US female Figure Skating championship was won by Dorothy Hamill.
1978Feb 9Kimberly Leach (12) was killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City, Fla.
1978Feb 9Canada announced it was expelling 13 Soviet diplomats who it said had tried to recruit a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer.
1978Feb 9In Tanzania cholera broke out and killed 300 people.
1979Feb 9Allen Tate (b.1899), poet and exponent of the New Criticism, died in Nashville.
1981Feb 9Bill Haley (b.1925), vocalist (Rock Around Clock), died of heart attack. Haley was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
1982Feb 9On approach to Haneda Airport a Japan Airlines DC-8 plunged into Tokyo Bay killing 24 people. 141 survived the crash caused when the captain pushed the nose down prematurely and engaged in a struggle with the co-pilot.
1983Feb 9In a dramatic reversal from 50 years earlier, the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University rejected, 416 to 187, a motion “that this House would not fight for Queen and Country.
1984Feb 9Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov (69) died, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev. He was succeeded by Konstantin U. Chernenko. US Pres. Ronald Reagan said he wouldn’t go to any memorial for Andropov: “I don’t want to honor that prick.”
1985Feb 9Madonna’s album “Like a Virgin,” released in 1984, reached #1.
1985Feb 9Seoul admitted using force against opposition leader Kim Dae Jung.
1986Feb 9Halley’s Comet reached 30th perihelion, its closest approach to Sun. 5 spacecraft from the USSR, Japan, and the European Community visited Comet Halley in early
1986Feb 9The tomb of Tutankhamen’s treasurer, Maya, was found in Egypt.
1987Feb 9Antanas Sabaniauskas (b.1903), Lithuania’s leading pop tenor, died.
1989Feb 9In Missouri Kelli Hall (17) was abducted as she finished her shift at a gas station in suburban St. Louis. Her naked body was found 13 days later on a St. Louis County farm. Jeffrey Hall (59), who was convicted for her murder and sentenced to death, was executed on March 26, 2014.
1990Feb 9John Gotti (1940-2002) was acquitted of charges that he commissioned the Westies gang to shoot a union official in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. This earned him the nickname “The Teflon Don.”
1990Feb 9The Galileo satellite, launched Oct. 18, 1989, made its closest approach to Venus.
1991Feb 9Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin L. Powell met with military commanders in Saudi Arabia to evaluate a possible ground assault against Iraqi forces.
1991Feb 9In a national poll 3 quarters of Lithuanian citizens called for independence from the Soviet Union in a non-binding plebiscite.
1992Feb 9Magic Johnson returned to professional basketball by playing in the NBA All-Star game. Johnson was named most valuable player as his side, the Western Conference, defeated the Eastern Conference 153-to-113.
1992Feb 9The government of Algeria declared a state of emergency to quell spreading Muslim fundamentalist unrest.
1993Feb 9NBC News announced it had settled a defamation lawsuit brought by General Motors over the network’s “inappropriate demonstration” of a fiery pickup truck crash on its “Dateline NBC” program.
1994Feb 9PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres initialed an agreement on security measures that had been blocking a peace accord.
1994Feb 9Jarmila Novotna (86), Czech-US soprano (Madame Butterfly), died.
1995Feb 9David Wayne (b.1914), [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), died.
1996Feb 9Leo Jenkins was executed under a new Texas law that allowed the family of his victims to witness his execution. A film was made of the execution for HBO titled: “A Kill for a Kill.”
1997Feb 9In Ecuador an agreement was reached to have Rosalia Arteaga serve as interim president until the passing of a constitutional amendment to elect a successor.
1998Feb 9Pres. Clinton declared 27 counties in California a federal disaster area. Estimated storm damage reached over $275 million.
1998Feb 9In Mexico it was reported that flash floods in Tijuana killed at least 13 people.
1999Feb 9It was reported that USA Networks would merge its cable-television AT Home Shopping Network with the Lycos Internet portal.
1999Feb 9In Iran the head of the intelligence ministry, Qorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, resigned along with 3 deputies due to last year’s killings of dissident writers and politicians.
2000Feb 9In Renton, Wa., some 17,000 Boeing engineers and technical workers began a 40-day strike, one of the biggest white-collar strikes in US history.
2000Feb 9In Turkey Kurdish rebels of the PKK announced that they had given up their war and would press their cause “within the framework of peace and democracy.”
2001Feb 9In Colombia Pres. Pastrana and FARC commander Marulanda agreed to resume peace negotiations.
2001Feb 9In Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked Ehud Barak to serve as defense minister. A Palestinian shepherd was killed by an Israeli bullet.
2001Feb 9In Mexico Pres. Fox inaugurated a $50 million aid plan for Chiapas. Yucatan’s PRI Gov. Victor Cervera refused to accept a state electoral commission.
2002Feb 9At the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Jochem Uytdehaage of the Netherlands won the gold medal in the men’s 5,000-meter speedskating race in world record time of 6:14.66.
2002Feb 9Oakland’s Rich Gannon led the AFC to a 38-30 victory over the NFC in the Pro Bowl.
2002Feb 9The US and Pakistan signed an agreement to enhance defense cooperation.
2002Feb 9The Afghan government released 320 captured Taliban fighters and gave each soldier the equivalent of $15 as a gesture of reconciliation.
2002Feb 9In Algeria security forces killed Antar Zouabri, head of the Armed Islamic Group, and 2 other insurgents in Boufarik.
2002Feb 9Britain’s Princess Margaret (71), the high-spirited and unconventional sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died in London.
2002Feb 9East Timor approved a draft for a new constitution. Full independence was scheduled for May 20.
2002Feb 9In Honduras police broke up a drug-smuggling, kidnapping and bank robbery ring in Lempira. It was an arm of cartels based in Tijuana.
2002Feb 9In South Africa Bulelani Vukwana (29), shot and killed his girlfriend and 9 others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London.
2003Feb 9The West beat the East 155-145 in the first double overtime game in NBA All-Star history.
2003Feb 9Three Palestinians were killed when their explosives-laden car blew up outside an Israeli army post after crashing into a cement block barrier. In secret talks last week Israel offered the Palestinians a gradual cease-fire.
2003Feb 9Swiss voters approved measures to further extend their direct democracy.
2004Feb 9President Bush and Democratic front-runner John Kerry sparred over the president’s economic leadership, while Kerry’s rivals sought to slow his brisk pace.
2004Feb 9The UN adopted Resolution 1559. It called for free elections in Lebanon and the withdrawal of all foreign forces and the disbanding of all militias.
2004Feb 9Venezuela devalued its currency by 17 percent against the U.S. dollar, a surprise
2005Feb 9Ceremonies were scheduled for a first-day-of-issue stamp commemorating Pres. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).
2005Feb 9Carly Fiorina’s nearly six-year reign at Hewlett-Packard Co. ended as the company’s board forced her out as chief executive. Patricia Dunn took over as chairman. In 2006 Fiorina authored “Tough Choices,” a memoir of her tenure at H-P.
2005Feb 9Helicopters rescued stranded Venezuelans after flood waters struck the mountainous central coast, triggering landslides, destroying homes and washing out roads. Officials said at least 13 people were killed and thousands of others were forced from their homes.
2006Feb 9President Bush outlined details of an alleged plot to hijack an airliner and fly it into a skyscraper in Los Angeles. The next day security officials and terrorism experts in Southeast Asia said Malaysian engineer Zaini Zakaria (38) was among three men al-Qaida was preparing to take part in an attack on Los Angeles. Zaini has been detained without trial under the Internal Security Act in Malaysia since he surrendered in December 2002.
2006Feb 9The US Treasury Dept. sold $14 billion of 30-year bonds at 5.52%. The last 30-year auction was on Aug. 15, 2001.
2007Feb 9US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters in Munich, Germany, that serial numbers and other markings on bombs suggested that Iranians were linked to deadly explosives used by Iraqi militants.
2007Feb 9Fred Everts (36), the former roommate of Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller (one of the nation’s most prolific child molesters), was sentenced in San Jose, Ca., to at least 800 years in prison for sexually abusing three boys.
2007Feb 9Fortress Investment Group LLC, became the 1st private equity group to go public. Shares were issued on the NYSE at $18.50 and closed at $31.
2007Feb 9It was reported that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have overcome a major obstacle in harnessing the full power and speed of the light waves for Internet fiber-optic networks.
2008Feb 9Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama also won almost 90% in the Virgin Islands. McCain narrowly won Washington while Huckabee took Kansas along with a narrow win in Louisiana.
2008Feb 9In San Mateo County, Ca., police found John Alfred Dennis Jr. (59), an Oakland historian and respected college teacher, slain in a vehicle at Montara State Beach. Troy Tyrone Thomas (43), the driver of the vehicle, was arrested. Dennis had mentored Thomas for some years. On July 7 Thomas pleaded guilty and faced life in prison.
2009Feb 9US Federal judges tentatively ordered California to release tens of thousands of inmates, up to a third of all prisoners, in the next three years to stop dangerous overcrowding.
2009Feb 9Baseball player Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs with the Texas Rangers from 2001 to 2003.
2009Feb 9In Argentina the ultraconservative Society of St. Pius X said British Bishop Richard Williamson, whose denials of the Holocaust led to Vatican demands he recant, has been removed as the head of an Argentine seminary. On Feb 19 the bishop was ordered to leave Argentina within 10 days.
2010Feb 9US Federal government offices were closed for a second straight day and utility workers struggled to restore power knocked out by a weekend blizzard.
2010Feb 9California lawmakers called for federal and state investigations into Anthem Blue Cross regarding new rates hikes of as much as 39% for thousands of policyholders statewide. On Feb 13 Anthem announced that it would delay the increase for two months to allow state regulators to conduct a review. On April 29 WellPoint, the parent of Anthem Blue Cross, said it was withdrawing the proposed rate increase and planned to file new rates.
2011Feb 9US federal prosecutors announced charges against 41 alleged gang members for activities ranging from racketeering conspiracy to drug and gun trafficking and murder in four states and Washington D.C. Some 29 defendants were arrested and more arrests are expected in connection with the separate cases from Los Angeles; McAllen, Texas; Kansas City; Washington D.C.; and Las Vegas.
2012Feb 9President Barack Obama freed 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students.
2012Feb 9Uganda said it will set up a national oil company to handle commercial interests in its emerging oil sector after the government tabled a long-delayed bill in parliament.
2013Feb 9In Russia Sergei Udaltsov, a top opposition figure, was placed under house arrest for two months. The move also banned him from using most forms of communication, including the Internet, telephone and mail. He faced charges in connection with a protest in May that ended in clashes with police and for allegedly plotting to conduct mass disorder aimed at overthrowing the government.
2013Feb 9In Senegal a woman and her son were killed by a landmine in the southern Casamance region near the Gambian border.
 2014Feb 9In Yemen Shiite rebels and Yemeni tribesmen agreed a ceasefire after deadly clashes between the two sides in the Arhab district near Sanaa. A bomb planted in the car of a Yemeni intelligence colonel exploded near the oil ministry, killing the officer and wounding 3 people.
Credit: Timelines of History

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