February 9

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Author : FJ

February 9

474 – As the seven-year old Leo II was deemed too young to rule, his father Zeno was crowned as the co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1825 – After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1895 – William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA, invented a game called Mintonette, which evolved into volleyball (pictured).
1920 – The Spitsbergen Treaty was signed, recognizing Norwegian sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, but all signatories were also given equal rights to engage in commercial activities on the islands.
1943 – World War II: Allied forces declared Guadalcanal secure, ending the Guadalcanal Campaign as a significant strategic victory for Allied forces fighting Japan in the Pacific War.

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February 8

February 8: Prešeren Day in Slovenia 1587 – Mary I, Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle for her involvement in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Elizabeth I of England. 1879 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standard time zones based on a single universal ...

February 2

February 2: Candlemas in Western Christianity; Groundhog Day in Canada and the United States 1536 – An expedition to the New World led by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founded what is now Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1848 – The Mexican–American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave 1.36 million km² (525,000 square miles) of Mexican territory ...

February 12

February 12: Darwin Day; Red Hand Day 881 – Pope John VIII crowned Charles the Fat as Holy Roman Emperor. 1502 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India with the object of enforcing Portuguese interests in the Far East. 1541 – Spanish Conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago, Chile, as Santiago del Nuevo ...

February 13

February 13 1706 – Great Northern War: The Swedish employed the double envelopment military strategy to defeat Saxony–Poland and their Russian allies at the Battle of Fraustadt near Fraustadt in present-day Wschowa, Poland. 1815 – The Cambridge Union Society, one of the oldest debating societies in the world, was founded at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. 1867 – Work began on ...

February 19

February 19 1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina exploded in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. 1811 – Peninsular War: An outnumbered French force under Édouard Mortier (pictured) routed and nearly destroyed the Spanish at the Battle of the Gebora near Badajoz, Spain. 1942 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing ...

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