February 9 is the 40th day of the calendar Gregorian .

Events

• 1621 : Gregory XV is pope
• 1801 : Peace of Luneville treaty confirms Campoformio ( October 1797 ), signed by Austria and France , France and the Low Countries recognize the annexation of French claims on the left bank of the Rhine
• 1861 : American Civil War: Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America
• 1904 : Fleet Japanese attack on the fortress unexpected Russian Port Arthur . Start Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 - 1,905 ), which ended with the peace of Portsmouth ( 1905 ).
• 1919 : Romania and Poland established diplomatic relations.
• 1929 : It was concluded at Moscow between the USSR , Romania , Latvia and Estonia signed an agreement that states are obliged to implement the Briand-Kellogg Pact , renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, even before its ratification by all states. Over 10 years, Russia invaded Finland , Estonia, Latvia, Poland , Bessarabia .
• 1934 : signed in Athens , representatives of Romania, Yugoslavia , Greece and Turkey to the Balkan Entente (with a protocol and a secret annex), which provided, inter alia, that States Parties "mutual guarantees its Balkan border security" and " take their obligation not to take any political action against another Balkan state signatory of the pact without the mutual consent of the other signatories and not take any liability to any Balkan state without prior knowledge of the other parties ". Was originally conceived as a pact in five, but Bulgaria refused the offer. (Government Tatarescu George , Minister of Foreign Titulescu ).
• 1945 : He found a large quantity of weapons and munitions (Hidden to approve the Council of Ministers Vice President, Petru Groza , and Undersecretary of State for Interior, Virgil Stanescu ) that were to be used in any strike force to establish a Communist government. The existence of this deposit contradicted leftist political statement that did not want a coup, but to continue the program.
• It promulgates the Law on the press treatment, which provided for punishment by admonition written, the suspension of between six months and five years and permanent prohibition of working the press for those journalists, publishers and employees of the press, prior to 23 August 1944 were put in Hitlerism or fascism were the Axis powers stipend for propaganda in favor of their policy, have called for acts of terror, torture and killings.
• 1953 : France : emergence of Poch collection Livre, which has seen a remarkable success
• 1959 : Japan announces total renunciation of nuclear weapons
• 1969 : First test flight of a Boeing 747
• 1971 : Apollo 14 returns to Earth after a mission to moon
• 1977 : Radio Free Europe station open letter sent by the writer Paul Goma is in solidarity with anti-communist protesters of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia. It was "the birth" of Romanian dissidence
• 1995 : Alain Delon , actor, director and producer, received the "Golden Bear" for lifetime achievement at the Berlin Film Festival
• 1998 : In Tbilisi , Gruzia , Eduard Shevardnadze survives attack directed against him
• 2001 : Representatives of the Catholic Church , Lutheran and Reformed met to consider the matter of indulgences , for the first time since the Great Schism of 1517
• 2006 : Starts the 56th International Film Festival of Berlin

Births

• 1409 : Constantine XI , last Byzantine emperor (d. 1453 )
• 1773 : William Henry Harrison , president of U.S. (d. 4 April 1841 )
• 1775 : Farkas Bolyai , Hungarian mathematician in Transylvania
• 1885 : Alban Berg , composer
• 1903 : Silvia Şerbescu , Romanian pianist (d. 1965 )
• 1908 : Cicerone Theodorescu , Romanian poet (d. 18 February 1974 )
• 1910 : Jacques Monod , a biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the year 1965 (d. 1976 )
• 1917 : Oleg Danovski , Romanian ballerina
• 1931 : Thomas Bernhard , Austrian writer (d. 1989 )
• 1940 : John Maxwell Coetzee , South African writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003
• 1943 : Joe Pesci , American actor
• 1945 : Mia Farrow , American actress
• Ionela Tarlea-Manolache , Romanian athlete
• 1986 : Ciprian Tătăruşanu , Romanian football
• 1990 : Alina Bercu , Romanian pianist

Deaths

• 1640 : Murad IV , sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1612 )
• 1670 : Frederick III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1609 )
• 1874 : Jules Michelet , French historian ("History of France", "History of the French Revolution") (b. 1798 )
• 1881 : Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky , Russian novelist (b. 1821 )
• 1957 : Miklós Horthy , regent of monarchical rule in Hungary ( 1920 - 1945 ) (b. 1868 )
• 1979 : Dennis Gabor , Hungarian physicist and inventor (b. 1900 )
• 1981 : Bill Haley , vocalist, composer, author of the first rock and roll has reached the Billboard pop section Crazy Man Crazy
• 1984 : Yuri Andropov , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914 )
• 1991 : Florin Mugur , Romanian poet (b. 1934 )
• 1994 : Gerasimos Luke , poet, novelist, adhering to the avant-garde movement. In 1947 , is set at Paris . A signed and under pseudonyms costs SAR, Malcoci Peter (b. 1913 )
• 1995 : William Fulbright , politician, U.S. , Fulbright Scholar Program founder (b. 1905 )
• 2002 : Princess Margaret , sister of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (b. 1930 )

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