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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 9
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Amy Lowell; US critic/Imagist poet (Patterns, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed).
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Vsevolod Meyerhold; Russian theatrical producer/director/actor (Houligan).
- 150th: 1874 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at age 75.
- 100th: 1924 - Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR.
- 100th: 1924 - Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at age 53.
- 90th: 1934 - -14.3 degrees F (-25.8 degrees C), coldest day in New York City, New York.
- 90th: 1934 - -51 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record low).
- 90th: 1934 - Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, and Romania).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of John A Ziegler Junior in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA; fourth NHL president (1977-92).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Alice Walker; US novelist (Color Purple, Meridian).
- 80th: 1944 - German submarines U-734 and U-238 sunk off Ireland.
- 70th: 1954 - Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy.
- 60th: 1964 - First appearance of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show (73.7 million viewers, about 40 percent of US population).
- 60th: 1964 - IX Olympic Winter Games close at Innsbruck, Austria.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Rachel Bolan; rocker (Skid Row).
- 60th: 1964 - Hanumant Singh scores 105 India versus England on debut at Delhi.
- 60th: 1964 - Death of Willie Bryant at age 55; singer and bandleader (Sugar Hill Times TV show (1949)).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Brad Maynard; punter (New York Giants).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of John Wallace; NBA forward (Toronto Raptors).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Orlando Bobo; guard (Minnesota Vikings).
- 50th: 1974 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill.
- 50th: 1974 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Junior.
- 40th: 1984 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at age 69 (born 1914).
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Han Geng; Chinese singer in Korea (Super Junior).
- 30th: 1994 - Arnold Smith, British first Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at age 79.
- 30th: 1994 - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with Palestinian Liberation Organization's Arafat.
- 30th: 1994 - Jarmila Novotna, Czechoslovakia/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at age 86.
- 30th: 1994 - Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone With the Wind), dies at age 88.
- 30th: 1994 - The Vance-Owen Peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1934).
- 30th: 1994 - FOX airs the 100th episode of TV show Beverly Hills 90210.
- 15th: 2009 - New York Yankees' baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez admits to having used performance-enhancing steroids earlier in his career, over a three-year period from 2001 to 2003 with the Texas Rangers.
- 15th: 2009 - Egyptian archaeologists find 22 mummies and eight wooden and stone sarcophagi in a burial chamber at the Saqqara site, dating back 2,600 to 4,000 years.
- 15th: 2009 - At Plumpton, England, jockey Tony McCoy, riding Restless D'Artaix, records his 3,000th career horse racing win.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (born 1970).
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