| Date | Text | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 09 Feb 1925 | Vic Wertz: Baseball player | |||
| 09 Feb 1925 | German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France | |||
| 09 Feb 1925 | Haifa Technion (Israel), opens | |||
| 09 Feb 1925 | Burkhard Heim, German physicist and academic (d. 2001) | |||
| 09 Feb 1925 | John B. Cobb, American philosopher and theologian | |||
| 09 Feb 1925 | WW2 | The incomplete Japanese battleship Tosa, which had been cancelled in accordance with the 1922 Washington Treaty, was expended as a target. | ||
| 09 Feb 1925 | WW2 | The incomplete 40,000-ton Japanese battleship Tosa was scuttled off Kure, Japan, her existance being banned by the Washington Treaty. | ||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 09 Feb 1950 | Andrew N Meltzoff: Developmental psychologist | |||
| 09 Feb 1950 | Lloyd Weldon Keasor: Pumphrey, Maryland -- Wrestler (1976 Olympics - Silver Medalist) | |||
| 09 Feb 1950 | Terry Hawkins: Theatre administrator | |||
| 09 Feb 1950 | Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists | |||
| 09 Feb 1950 | Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. | |||
| 09 Feb 1950 | Richard F. Colburn, American sergeant and politician | |||
09 Feb 1950
Californium |
Californium (chemistry) Californium, a radioactive actinide transuranium element, is first synthesized by Stanley G. Thompson, Kenneth Street, Jr., Albert Ghiorso and Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 09 Feb 1975 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic | |||
| 09 Feb 1975 | Soyuz 17 returns to Earth | |||
| 09 Feb 1975 | The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. | |||
| 09 Feb 1975 | Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player | |||
| 09 Feb 1975 | Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2008) | |||
| 09 Feb 1975 | Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist and coach | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 09 Feb 2005 | Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper (b. 1927) | |||
| 09 Feb 2005 | Tyrone Davis, American singer (b. 1938) | |||
| 09 Feb 2005 | Winners at this year's Brit Awards included The Streets who won Best British male solo artist, Joss Stone won British female solo artist, Best British Album went to Keane for 'Hopes and Fears', Franz Ferdinand won Best British Group and Best Rock Act, McFly won Best Pop Act, Scissor Sisters won Best International group and the Best Album award the Brits 25 best song award went to Robbie Williams for 'Angels' and Sir Bob Geldof won the Outstanding Contribution To Music award. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 09 Feb 2010 | Walter Frederick Morrison, American toymaker, invented the Frisbee (b. 1920) | |||
| 09 Feb 2010 | Jacques Hétu, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1938) | |||
| 09 Feb 2010 | Phil Harris, American captain and fisherman (b. 1956) | |||
| 09 Feb 2010 | The White Stripes were taking on the US Air Force, complaining that it used one of the group's songs 'Fell In Love With A Girl' in a TV advert without permission. In a statement on their website, the duo said they took "strong insult and objection, with the implication that we licensed one of our songs to encourage recruitment during a war that we do not support." | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 09 Feb 2015 | Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (b. 1916) | |||
| 09 Feb 2015 | Drew McDonald, Scottish wrestler (b. 1955) | |||
| 09 Feb 2015 | Jon Jerde, American architect (b. 1940) | |||
| 09 Feb 2015 | Liu Han, Chinese businessman (b. 1965) | |||
| 09 Feb 2015 | Abdul Rauf Aliza, Afghan commander (b. 1981) | |||
| 09 Feb 2015 | Bob Dylan turned the tables on his critics during a 30-minute speech, at the Musicares charity gala honouring his career. The 73-year-old, who rarely talks about his work, asked why critics complained he "can't sing" and sounds "like a frog" but do not "say that about Tom Waits?" The singer added, "Critics say my voice is shot, that I have no voice. Why don't they say those things about Leonard Cohen? Why do I get special treatment?" | |||
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