February 9

Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on February 9.

See also:  February,  Today in History,  movable February holidays,  possible February holidays

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•  2005:  Chinese New Year Festival begins - particularly in San Francisco, CA; Year of the Rooster begins
•  Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
•  Feast of Apollo
•  National Bagels and Lox Day
•  National DAV (Develop Alternative Vices) Day - in hopes that bad habits will be altered to positive coping mechanisms
•  National Girls and Women in Sports Day - February 9, 2006
•  National Hooky Day
•  National Inventor's Day
•  Tales of Kelp-Koli begin (Fairy)
•  Toothache Day

Christian holidays

•  Calendar of Saints - February 09
  •  St. Apollonia's Day (patron of dentists; against toothaches)
•  2005:  Ash Wednesday - beginning of Lent

anniversaries

•  Jamaica Became Independent (1962)
•  Chinese Spring Festival - Mauritius
•  St. Maron - Lebanon
•  ECOSOC UN Committees on Protection of Minorities and Freedom of the Press set up 1946

directories

February holidays & events by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Europe
•  North & Central America
•  Oceania
•  South America

Africa

Asia

•  Hong Kong Arts Festival - February 9 - March 12, 2006

Middle East

Australia and Oceania

•  Hobert Regatta Day - in Tasmania
•  Feast of La'Ala'A (Upolu God of Wrestling) - in French Polynesia

Europe

•  Berlin International Film Festival - in Berlin, Germany; February 9 - 19, 2006; the biggest movie event in Germany, and is fast becoming one of the most important film exhibitions in Europe; founded in 1951

North America

Caribbean

Central America

South America

Gregorian calendar

•  Day 40, with 325 days remaining in the year
•  2001 A. D.: Friday
•  2002 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2003 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2004 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2005 A. D.:  Wednesday

•  2006 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2007 A. D.:  Friday
•  2008 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2009 A. D.:  Monday
•  2010 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2011 A. D.:  Wednesday

other calendars

•  Julian period & Julian Day
•  Illuminati
•  Hebrew
•  Mayan
•  Chinese
•  Erisian (Discordian) 
•  Islamic
•  French Revolutionary

season

•  Northern hemisphere:  Winter
•  Southern hemisphere:  Summer

zodiac

•  Aquarius

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last edited Thursday, December 25, 2008