What Day of the Week

February 9, 2021 was the 40^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 325 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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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.
• 1870

  President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
• 1904

  Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• 1942

  World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
• 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.
• 1971

  Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
• 1973

  Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
• 1975

  The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
• 1995

  Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
• 2005

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.

• 1533

  Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
• 1748

  Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826)
• 1773

  William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
• 1871

  Howard Taylor Ricketts, American bacteriologist. (d. 1910)
• 1897

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

  Harald Genzmer, German composer (d. 2007)
• 1925

  Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
• 1929

  Danny Malloy (Boxer), Scottish professional boxer and footballer
• 1953

  Ciarán Hinds, Northern Irish actor
• 1961

  John Kruk, American baseball player

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