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Events
474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1849 – New Roman Republic established
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 – World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1951 – Korean War: Geochang massacre.
1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA, marking the start of the British Invasion cultural phenomenon.
1965 – The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops with a combat mission in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
1971 – The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing
1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
2013 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 15 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Earliest day on which Clean Monday can fall, while March 15 is the latest;
celebrated on the first Monday of Great Lent. (Eastern Christianity)
Earliest day on which People's Sunday can fall, while March 15 is the latest;
celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent. (Malta)
Traditional Western
Cyril, Pope of Alexandria, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
The Twenty-six Holy Martyrs who suffered in Japan. Double.
Contemporary Western
Anne Catherine Emmerich
Ansbert of Rouen
Apollonia
Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire
Maron of Lebanon
Miguel Febres Cordero
Teilo (Wales)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Leavetaking of the Presentation of our Lord
Saints
Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily, Philagrius, Bishop of Cyprus,
and Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina, disciples of Apostle Peter (1st c.)
Martyrs Ammonius and Alexander of Cyprus, at Solia in Cyprus (c. 248-251)
Saint Apollonia of Alexandria, martyr (249)
Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch in Syria (c. 257)
Venerable Romanus the Wonderworker, of Cilicia, near Antioch (5th c.)
Venerable Shio Mgvime of Georgia (6th c.)
Hieromartyr Peter, Bishop of Damascus, by the sword (743 or 775)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyr Alexander of Rome and thirty-eight other martyrs with him
Martyrs Ammon, Emilian, Lassa and Companions, a group of forty-four
Christians martyred in Membressa in Africa
Martyrs Primus and Donatus, two Deacons in Lavallum in North Africa
martyred by Donatists (362)
Saint Nebridius, Bishop of Egara near Barcelona in Spain, a city since
destroyed (c. 527)
Saint Sabinus of Canosa, Bishop of Canosa in Apulia in Italy and Confessor,
and a friend of St Benedict (c. 566)
Saints Aemilianus and Bracchio, of Tours in Gaul (6th c.)
Saint Teilo (Theliau, Teilan, Dillo, Dillon), Bishop of Llandaff, Wales (6th c.)
Saint Einion Frenin (Eingan, Eneon, Anianus), a British prince who left Cumberland
for Wales and became a hermit at Llanengan near Bangor (6th c.)
Saint Ansbert of Rouen, third abbot of Fontenelle Abbey and then Bishop
of Rouen (c. 700)
Saint Cuaran (Curvinus, Cronan), a bishop in Ireland, called 'the Wise', who hid his
identity to become a monk at Iona, where he was recognised by St Columba (c. 700)
Saint Alto of Altomünster, founder of Altomünster Abbey (c. 760)
Saint Cronan the Wise, called 'the Wise' on account of his knowledge
of the canons (8th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th c.)
Saints Gennadius (c. 1516) and Nicephorus (1557) monks, of Vazhe Lake
(Vazheozersk), Vologda
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Basil, Priest (1930)
New Hieromartyr John, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics (1805) of St. Innocent, Bishop of Irkutsk (1731)Earliest day on which Clean Monday can fall, while March 15 is the latest;
celebrated on the first Monday of Great Lent. (Eastern Christianity)
Earliest day on which People's Sunday can fall, while March 15 is the latest;
celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent. (Malta)
Traditional Western
Cyril, Pope of Alexandria, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
The Twenty-six Holy Martyrs who suffered in Japan. Double.
Contemporary Western
Anne Catherine Emmerich
Ansbert of Rouen
Apollonia
Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire
Maron of Lebanon
Miguel Febres Cordero
Teilo (Wales)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Leavetaking of the Presentation of our Lord
Saints
Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily, Philagrius, Bishop of Cyprus,
and Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina, disciples of Apostle Peter (1st c.)
Martyrs Ammonius and Alexander of Cyprus, at Solia in Cyprus (c. 248-251)
Saint Apollonia of Alexandria, martyr (249)
Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch in Syria (c. 257)
Venerable Romanus the Wonderworker, of Cilicia, near Antioch (5th c.)
Venerable Shio Mgvime of Georgia (6th c.)
Hieromartyr Peter, Bishop of Damascus, by the sword (743 or 775)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyr Alexander of Rome and thirty-eight other martyrs with him
Martyrs Ammon, Emilian, Lassa and Companions, a group of forty-four
Christians martyred in Membressa in Africa
Martyrs Primus and Donatus, two Deacons in Lavallum in North Africa
martyred by Donatists (362)
Saint Nebridius, Bishop of Egara near Barcelona in Spain, a city since
destroyed (c. 527)
Saint Sabinus of Canosa, Bishop of Canosa in Apulia in Italy and Confessor,
and a friend of St Benedict (c. 566)
Saints Aemilianus and Bracchio, of Tours in Gaul (6th c.)
Saint Teilo (Theliau, Teilan, Dillo, Dillon), Bishop of Llandaff, Wales (6th c.)
Saint Einion Frenin (Eingan, Eneon, Anianus), a British prince who left Cumberland
for Wales and became a hermit at Llanengan near Bangor (6th c.)
Saint Ansbert of Rouen, third abbot of Fontenelle Abbey and then Bishop
of Rouen (c. 700)
Saint Cuaran (Curvinus, Cronan), a bishop in Ireland, called 'the Wise', who hid his
identity to become a monk at Iona, where he was recognised by St Columba (c. 700)
Saint Alto of Altomünster, founder of Altomünster Abbey (c. 760)
Saint Cronan the Wise, called 'the Wise' on account of his knowledge
of the canons (8th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th c.)
Saints Gennadius (c. 1516) and Nicephorus (1557) monks, of Vazhe Lake
(Vazheozersk), Vologda
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Basil, Priest (1930)
New Hieromartyr John, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics (1992) of New Hiero-confessor Tikhon,
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925)
Repose of Maria, desert-dweller of Olonets (1860)
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