History Of 9 February | On This Day In World

In the history of the World, some other important events recorded on the date of 9 February are as follows: - 

➧ 1824: The famous nineteenth century Bengali poet and playwright Michael Madhusudan Dutta embraced Christianity.

➧ 1899: Freedom fighter Balakrishna Chapekar passed away.

➧ 1922: CP Krishnan Nair, the famous hotel industrialist of India and founder of the 'Hotel Leela Group', was born.

➧ 1931: For the first time in India, a stamp with a picture was issued in honor of a person.

➧ 1950: Jurist, journalist and politician Sir Abdul Qadir passed away.

➧ 1951: The task of making a list for the first census in independent India was started.

➧ 1962: Jamaica signs documents to become an independent country.

➧ 1971: Apollo 14 mission returns to Earth from the moon.

➧ 1975: Russian spacecraft Soyuz 17 returned to Earth after 29 days from space.

➧ 1984: T. Balasaraswati, the famous dancer of 'Bharatanatyam', passed away.

➧ 1993: Indian Grand Master player Parimarjan Negi was born.

➧ 2001: Thaksin Shinawatra elected as the new Prime Minister of Thailand.

➧ 2002: Foreign Minister of the former Taliban government of Afghanistan, Muttavkil surrenders.

➧ 2007: Pakistan's opposition party Jamayati Ulema Islami removed Jinnah from the list of freedom fighters.

➧ 2008: Baba Amte, a noted social worker, mainly for serving leprosy, died.

➧ 2009: Supreme Court gives notice to UP government on illegal construction in and around Taj.

➧ 2010: Government of India indefinitely banned commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal.

➧ 2014: Scientists at the Australian National University discover a 13.6 billion year old star.

➧ 2016: Nepal's 37th Prime Minister Sushil Koirala died.

➧ 2020: Kovid-19 virus deaths surpassed SARS (2003) with 813 deaths worldwide, with more than 34,800 known infections.