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Events

• 1822 (204 years ago) Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.
• 1922 (104 years ago) Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1932 (94 years ago) Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.
• 1934 (92 years ago) The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
• 1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
• 2018 (8 years ago) Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.

Births

• 1737 (289 years ago) Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist (died 1809)
• 1773 (253 years ago) William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (died 1841)
• 1830 (196 years ago) Abdülaziz, Ottoman Sultan and Caliph (died 1876)
• 1910 (116 years ago) Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
• 1940 (86 years ago) J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 (83 years ago) Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 (82 years ago) Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, and poet
• 1981 (45 years ago) Tom Hiddleston, English actor

Deaths

• 1874 (152 years ago) Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (born 1798)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (born 1821)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (born 1868)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (born 1914)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (born 1928)
• 2001 (25 years ago) Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
• 2002 (24 years ago) Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (born 1930)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Chick Corea, American jazz composer (born 1941)

All 391 events, births and deaths of February 9