This day in History - February 9

434 Historic Events for February 9
1921 Birth Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher
1922 Birth James C "Jim" Laker, Bradford England, cricket off spinner
1922 Event Italian govt of Bonomi falls
1922 Event Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1923 Event Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
1923 Birth Kathryn Grayson, NC, vocalist/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate)
1923 Birth Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
1923 Birth Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)
1924 Death Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53
1924 Event Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
1924 Birth George Guest, British organist
1925 Birth Vic Wertz, baseball player
1925 Event German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
1925 Event Haifa Technion (Israel), opens
1926 Event Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1926 Birth Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland
1927 Birth Donald Miller, CEO (Scottish Power)
1927 Birth Norman Adams, painter/ceramic sculptor
1928 Birth Roger Mudd, Wash DC, news ancher (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
1929 Birth Lennox Butler, cricketer (1 Test WI v Aust 1955, 16 and 2-151)
1929 Birth Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
1929 Birth James Mulcro Drew, composer
1929 Birth Willem Kersters, Flemish composer (Parwati, Gospel Song)
1929 Event USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact
1930 Birth Emil Petrovics, composer