On This Day
9 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1757 Concluded by Robert Clive, the Treaty of Alinagar restored Calcutta (now Kolkata)—which Clive had recovered in January from Siraj al-Dawlah—to British control and served as a prelude to the seizure of Bengal.
- 1806 Telanga Kharia, great Indian tribal freedom fighter, who spearheaded a rebellion against the British Raj in Chotanagpur Region during 1850-1860, was born. This rebellion was mainly against injustice, atrocities and land alienation of tribal people which was a result of the British Rule.
- 1959 Anna Chandy was appointed judge of Kerala High Court, becoming the first female judge in an Indian high court. She was, in fact, one of the first female judges in the whole British Empire next to Emily Murphy.
- 2008 Baba Amte (Murlidhar Devidas Amte), social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of people suffering from leprosy, died.
- 2010 The Indian government banned commercial cultivation of genetically modified Bt brinjal.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1940 South African novelist, critic, and translator J M Coetzee, who won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born.
- 1986 Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
- 1991 After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1994 Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.
- 2020 Deaths from COVID-19 virus overtake those of Sars (2003) with 813 deaths worldwide, with more than 34,800 known infections.
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