Ephemerides for Tuesday morning, February 9.
Madrid, February 8 .- Saints for tomorrow, Tuesday, February 9, 2010: Santa Apolonia, Donato, Nicephorus, Primo and Sabino.
The sun rises tomorrow at 07.16 and sets at 17.43 (GMT).
The moon comes out tomorrow at 04.21 and sets at 13.28 (GMT).
1601 .- Felipe III arrives with his Court to Valladolid, which virtually becomes capital of Spain.
, tera gold, 1724 .- It is proclaimed king of Spain Luis I, son of Philip V.
1849 .- Proclamation of the Roman Republic and abolition of the temporal power of the Popes.
1900 .- The American tennis player Dwight F. Davis founded the annual world trophy bearing his name.
1909 .- The agreement between France and Germany over Morocco recognizes the, sto credits, French political dominance over the African country.
1910 .- Jose Canalejas first occupies the presidency of the Council of Ministers.
1915 .- Great European War: closes the Suez Canal neutral vessels.
1927 .- Smothering in Portugal the revolutionary movement against the Government General Carmona.
1929 .- The USSR, Romania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia arrange non-aggression, star trek online credits, pacts.
1934 .- Greece, Turkey, Romania and Yugoslavia signed the Balkan Pact to ensure border security.
1942 .- A fire in New York destroyed the French liner "Normandie."
1943 .- World War II, the Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal.
1946 .- The UN General Assembly condemns the Franco regime.
1956 .- Clashes at the University of Madrid between students of different tendencies.
1957 .- arrives in Madrid Sultan of Morocco, Mohamed V.
1962 .- Spain completed its first application to join the European Common Market.
1964 .- Official announcement of the engagement between the Spanish Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Irene of Netherlands Orange-Nassau.
1967 .- The EU began to develop policy on VAT.
Spain 1968 .- Bases Act amending the autonomous regime in Equatorial Guinea.
1977 .- Spain and the USSR established full diplomatic relations.
1981 .- Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski was appointed prime minister of Poland.
1984 .- The popular song "Asturias, patria querida", declared the official anthem of the Principality of Asturias.
1991 .- Adopted by rrendum by an overwhelming majority of Lithuania's independence from the USSR.
1995 .- Jordan confirms the Israeli withdrawal from Jordanian territory occupied since 1967 in the southern Araba valley.
2002 .- The Algerian Government admits having killed the main leader of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), Antar Zuabri (Abu Talha).
2005 .- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, publicly apologizes to the "Guildford Four", Northern Ireland for fifteen years in prison for a bombing they did not commit.
2006 .- Scientists Valencian Infertility Institute (Spain) announce the birth, on January 21 for the first time in the world, a healthy baby of a couple carries the genetic disease HLH (familial lymphohistiocytosis hemafagocitica).
Births ———– Gueemes 1785 .- John Martin, General Argentina.
1801 .- Joaquin Pesado, the first Mexican writer to reach the title of Member of the Royal AcademySpanish.
1815 .- Federico Madrazo, Spanish painter, noted portraitist.
Jacques L. 1910 .- Monod, a French scientist, P. Nobel Physiology and Medicine, 1965.
1926 .- Garret Fitzgerald, Irish politician.
1940 .- John Michael Coetzee, South African writer of Anglo-Germanic Literature Nobel 2003.
1942 .- Manuel Castells, Professor Spanish.
1943 .- Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.
1945 .- Mia Farrow, American actress.
1950 .- Javier Mariscal, Spanish painter and designer.
1953 .- Richard Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors (GM).
1957 .- Jaco van Dormael, Belgian film director.
1974 .- Jordi Cruyff, Spanish football player.
Deaths ———– 1881 .- Fedor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (January 28, according to the Julian calendar).
1981 .- Bill Haley, American composer, "father of rock."
1984 .- Yuri Andropov, Soviet political leader.
Howard M. 1994 .- Temin, American virologist, P. Nobel 1975.
- Orlando Contreras, Cuban singer.
1995 .- William Fulbright, U.S. politician.
2002 .- Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II of England.
2003 .- Miquel Batllori, Jesuit, historian and humanist Spanish.
2006 .- Ron Greenwood, England's football team.
2008 .- Murlidhar Devidas, Baba Amate, Indian activist.
- Genaro Celayeta, a former Spanish footballer of Real Sociedad.