| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 1263 | Feb 9 | A Lithuania army under Treniota defeated the Livonian Knights of the Cross. |
| 1775 | Feb 9 | English Parliament declared the Mass. colony was in rebellion. |
| 1797 | Feb 9 | John Quincy Adams’ (Sr.) emerged victorious from America’s first contested presidential election. |
| 1822 | Feb 9 | The American Indian Society organized. |
| 1846 | Feb 9 | Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, was born. He designed the first Mercedes automobile. |
| 1861 | Feb 9 | Tennessee voted against secession. |
| 1886 | Feb 9 | Modest Mussorgsky’s (1839-1881) opera “Khovanschchina,” arranged by Rimsky-Korsakov, premiered in St. Petersburg. The Gregorian date is Feb 21. |
| 1902 | Feb 9 | Doctor Doyen of Paris, performed a successful operation on Siamese twins from the Barnum and Bailey Circus. |
| 1906 | Feb 9 | Natal proclaimed a state of siege in Zulu uprising. |
| 1913 | Feb 9 | The 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico City when 3,000 died. |
| 1916 | Feb 9 | Conscription began in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective. |
| 1918 | Feb 9 | Army chaplain school organized at Ft. Monroe, Va. |
| 1922 | Feb 9 | The U.S. Congress established the World War Foreign Debt Commission. |
| 1923 | Feb 9 | Soviet Aeroflot airlines formed. |
| 1941 | Feb 9 | British troops conquered El Agheila. |
| 1942 | Feb 9 | The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II. |
| 1947 | Feb 9 | Bank robber Willie Sutton escaped jail in Philadelphia. |
| 1953 | Feb 9 | The French destroyed six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam. |
| 1962 | Feb 9 | An agreement was signed to make Jamaica an independent nation within the British Commonwealth later in the year. |
| 1974 | Feb 9 | US female Figure Skating championship was won by Dorothy Hamill. |
| 1985 | Feb 9 | Seoul admitted using force against opposition leader Kim Dae Jung. |
| 1987 | Feb 9 | Robert McFarlane (1919-2006), former US national security adviser, attempted suicide. |
| 1990 | Feb 9 | John 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.” |
| 1992 | Feb 9 | Magic 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. |
| 1994 | Feb 9 | PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres initialed an agreement on security measures that had been blocking a peace accord. |
| 1995 | Feb 9 | A preview of “Heiress” opened at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances. |
| 1997 | Feb 9 | Fox cartoon series “Simpsons” aired its 167th episode, the longest running animated series in cartoon history. |
| 1998 | Feb 9 | South Korean unions voted down a pact to make it easier for businesses to lay off workers. The unions also called for a nationwide strike this week. The strike was called off. |
| 2001 | Feb 9 | In Mexico Pres. Fox inaugurated a $50 million aid plan for Chiapas. Yucatan’s PRI Gov. Victor Cervera refused to accept a state electoral commission. |
| 2003 | Feb 9 | The West beat the East 155-145 in the first double overtime game in NBA All-Star history. |
| 2005 | Feb 9 | Ceremonies were scheduled for a first-day-of-issue stamp commemorating Pres. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004). |
| 2006 | Feb 9 | Australian senators voted to remove an effective ban on abortion drug RU-486. |
| 2007 | Feb 9 | US 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. |
| 2009 | Feb 9 | US 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. |
| 2010 | Feb 9 | US Federal government offices were closed for a second straight day and utility workers struggled to restore power knocked out by a weekend blizzard. |
| 2011 | Feb 9 | A US judge approved the extradition to Mexico of Chinese-Mexican businessman, Zhenli Ye Gon, on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. |
| 2012 | Feb 9 | In Britain a new 367 megawatt offshore wind farm opened off the Cumbrian coast and will supply up to 320,000 households with renewable power a year. |
| 2013 | Feb 9 | In southern California three women walking in Anaheim died after they were hit by a suspected drunk driver. |
| 2014 | Feb 9 | Michael Sam, a defensive end form the Univ. of Missouri, publicly came out as gay. He was expected to be a 3rd A10of 4th round pick at the NFL draft. |
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