February 9
People born on this day are Aquarius.
- 1978
The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.
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Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
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Civil unrest broke out across Palestine.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
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The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.
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Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.
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Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.
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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis.
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Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.
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The Baltic states synchronize their electric power transmission infrastructure with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA), in objective to disconnect from the Russo-Belarussian agreement to use the IPS/UPS system.
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2007Ryan Coleman-Williams, American football player
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2003Cooper DeJean, American football player
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2002Jalen Green, American basketball player
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2001Dylan Cozens, Canadian ice hockey player
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1998Cem Bölükbaşı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer
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1998Isabella Gomez, Colombian-American actress
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1997Jaire Alexander, American football player
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1997Saquon Barkley, American football player
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1997Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player
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1996Jimmy Bennett, American actor
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1996Kelli Berglund, American actress
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1996Chung Ha, South Korean singer
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