What Day of the Week

February 9, 2020 was the 40^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 326 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1621

  Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
• 1825

  After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
• 1849

  New Roman Republic established
• 1885

  The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
• 1895

  William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
• 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.
• 1967

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• 1971

  Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
• 1971

  Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1975

  The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

• 1814

  Samuel Jones Tilden, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
• 1897

  Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian pilot (d. 1935)
• 1909

  Harald Genzmer, German composer (d. 2007)
• 1914

  Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)
• 1937

  Tomislav Gotovac, Croatian movie director, actor, performer, multimedia and conceptual artist (d. 2010.)
• 1966

  Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
• 1972

  Norbert Rózsa, Hungarian swimmer
• 1979

  Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
• 1981

  Joël Camathias, Swiss racing driver
• 1982

  Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer

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