On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on February 09:
1404 Constantine XI Dragases last Byzantine Emperor
1441 Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani] Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub)
1602 Franciscus van de Enden Flemish Jesuit/free thinker/tutor of Spinoza
1744 Amos Bull composer
1772 Frans Mikael Franzén Finnish-Swedish poet (Abo)
1773 William Henry Harrison Virginia, (Whigs) 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1775 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom)
1814 Samuel Jones Tilden philanthropist for New York Public Library
1826 John Alexander Logan Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1830 Abdül Aziz Istanbul Ottoman, 32nd sultan of Turkey (1861-76)
1846 Wilhelm Maybach German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
1865 Erich von Drygalski German Federal Republic, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic explorer
1891 Ronald Colman England, 1947 Academy Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
1901 Brian Donlevy Portadown Ireland, actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island, Dangerous Assignment)
1909 Dean Rusk US Secretary of State (1961-69)
1909 Carmen Miranda [Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha] Marco de Canavezes Portugal, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
1914 Bill (Rhymes with Wreck) Veeck baseball club owner
1914 Ernest Tubb Texas, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
1928 Roger Mudd Washington DC, news anchor (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
1940 Smokey Robinson rocker (& Miracles-Tears of Clown)
1942 Carole King [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
1943 Joe Pesci Newark NJ, actor (Goodfellas)
1944 Alice Walker US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1945 Mia (Maria) Farrow Los Angeles CA, actress (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
1947 Joe Ely Amarillo TX, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade)
1954 Ulrich Walter German Federal Republic, cosmonaut
1960 Peggy A Whitson Mt Ayr IA, PhD/astronaut
1963 Travis Tritt Marietta GA, country vocalist (Country Club)
1965 Lennox Lewis London England, Super heavyweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1988)
Deaths which occurred on February 09:
1567 Henry Stuart earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1583 Jeseph Sanalbo Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1640 Murad IV sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
1881 Feodor M Dostoevski Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1945 George J L Maduro resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau
1961 Grigory Levenfish International chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
1966 Sophie Tucker Russian/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79
1969 [George] Gabby Hayes actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83
1973 Max Yasgur owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53
1977 Gaus an orangutan who lived to be 59
1977 Sergei Ilyushin Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82
1978 Kimberly Leach killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City FL at 12
1981 Bill Haley vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55
1984 Yuri Andropov General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1995 David Wayne [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81
1995 J William Fulbright (Senator-D-AR)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
1996 Adolf Galland General (Luftwaffe), dies at 83
2002 Princess Margaret sister of Queen Elizabeth II of England, dies from a stroke at 71
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1965 MC LEAN JAMES H.---LOS ANGELES CA.
[CAPTURE CONFIRMED]
1969 MEYERS ROGER A.--- CHICAGO IL.
1973 BOYLES HOWARD
[04/73 REMAINS RECOVERED ID INDISPUT]
1973 CAVIL JACK W.
[04/01/73 REMAINS RECOVERED]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
1267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
1540 The 1st recorded race met in England at Roodee Fields, Chester
1554 Battle at London Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated
1621 Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV
1742 British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford
1744 Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews)
1775 English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion
1799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, West Indies
1801 France & Austrian sign Peace of Lunéville
1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US President
1861 Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & Vice President of CSA
1861 Tennessee votes against secession
1861 Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
1863 Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
1864 109 Union prisoners escaped through a tunnel from the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Va.
1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state
1870 Grant signs the bill establishing Federal Meteorological Service
1885 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1886 President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento
1893 Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
1893 Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1895 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minnesota Agricultural beats Hamline, 9-3)
1895 Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1900 Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1904 Japan declares war on Russia
1906 Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
1909 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1918 Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe VA
1920 Joint Rules Commission bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs
1923 Soviet Aeroflot airlines established
1925 Haifa Technion (Israel), opens
1925 German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
1926 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta GA schools
1932 America enter Olympics 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
1932 US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing NY)
1933 The 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,"
1933 -63ºF Moran WY (state record)
1934 -14.3ºF coldest day in New York City NY
1934 -51ºF Vanderbilt MI (state record)
1940 Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 British troops conquer El Agheila
1941 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1942 The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II
1942 Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, epic battle ends
1943 FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1943 Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
1947 Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia PA
1948 WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1951 St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45(?)
1953 "The Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
1955 US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
1956 -5ºF in Sicily
1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1963 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (16.7")
1964 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964 GI Joe character created
1966 Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1971 Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1971 Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 65 & causes over $½ billion damage
1971 Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
1971 Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family
1974 "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1978 Ted Bundy kills Kimberly Leach, 12, Lake City FL; later executed
1979 ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
1986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1987 New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
1989 Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1990 Galileo flies by Venus
1990 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.”
1991 Voters in Lithuania vote for independence
1994 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
1997 Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
1998 Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
1999 In 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
2000 In 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."
2001 The US nuclear submarine Greeneville struck the Japanese fishing boat, Ehime Maru, near Oahu with 35 people on board including 13 students.
2002 In Algeria security forces killed Antar Zouabri, head of the Armed Islamic Group, and 2 other insurgents in Boufarik.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
US : Boy Scouts of America Anniversary Week (Day 2)
US : New Idea Week (Day 2)
Great American Pies Month
Religious Observances
Lebanon : St Maron Day
Methodist : Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Apollonia, deaconess/martyr
Old Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Cyril of Alexandria, bishop/confessor/doctor
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Miguel Febres Cordero, Ecuadoran monk
Saint Apollonia Feast Day
Religious History
1812 Pioneer missionary Samuel Newell married fellow Congregationalist Harriet Atwood. They afterward sailed for India with Adoniram and Ann Hasseltine Judson. (Harriet Newell and Ann Judson thereby became the first American women commissioned for missionary work abroad.)
1819 Birth of William True Sleeper, New England Congregational clergyman and author of the hymns "Jesus, I Come" and "Ye Must Be Born Again."
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Savior is away.'
1930 American pioneer linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.'
1948 U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We are tempted to despair of our world. Remind us, O Lord, that Thou hast been facing the same thing in all the world since time began.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate."
