Summary of the Day ✨ 9 February (09/02)
The Baltic states integrated their power grid with Continental Europe while Donald Trump faced his second impeachment trial and Salvadoran President Bukele deployed troops to the legislature amid political turmoil, as the Winter Olympics opened in South Korea and a deadly train collision in Germany claimed twelve lives.
Historical Events 📜
- 2025: 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.
- 2021: Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.
- 2020: 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.
- 2018: Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.
- 2016: Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.
- 2001: 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.
- 1996: 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.
- 1996: Copernicium is discovered by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
- 1991: Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1987: Civil unrest broke out across Palestine.
- 1986: Halley’s Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
- 1982: Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.
- 1978: The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1976: Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
- 1975: The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
Famous Births 👶
- 2007: Ryan Williams, American football player
- 2003: Cooper DeJean, American football player
- 2002: Jalen Green, American basketball player
- 2001: Dylan Cozens, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1998: Cem Bölükbaşı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer
- 1998: Isabella Gomez, Colombian-American actress
- 1997: Jaire Alexander, American football player
- 1997: Saquon Barkley, American football player
- 1997: Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player
- 1996: Jimmy Bennett, American actor
- 1996: Kelli Berglund, American actress
- 1996: Chungha, South Korean singer
- 1996: Sebastián Driussi, Argentinian footballer
- 1995: André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1995: Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Tom Robbins, American writer (born 1932)
- 2022: Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1939)
- 2021: Chick Corea, American jazz composer (born 1941)
- 2018: Reg E. Cathey, American actor of stage, film, and television (born 1958)
- 2018: Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic composer (born 1969)
- 2018: John Gavin, American actor and United States ambassador to Mexico (born 1931)
- 2017: André Salvat, French Army colonel (born 1920)
- 2016: Sushil Koirala, Nepalese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (born 1939)
- 2016: Zdravko Tolimir, Bosnian Serb military commander (born 1948)
- 2015: Liu Han, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (born 1965)
- 2015: Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (born 1916)
- 2014: Gabriel Axel, Danish actor, director, and producer (born 1918)
- 2014: Hal Herring, American football player and coach (born 1924)
- 2014: Logan Scott-Bowden, English general (born 1920)
- 2013: Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (born 1923)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Alto of Altomünster
- Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
- Ansbert of Rouen
- Apollonia
- Bracchio
- Einion the King (Western Orthodoxy)
- Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire
- Maron (Maronite Church)
- Miguel Febres Cordero
- Nebridius
- Sabinus of Canosa
- Teilo (Wales)