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Historical Events for 9th February 2024
1941 - Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
1945 - The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway
1945 - WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
1946 - Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1974 - "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
1983 - Belgium buys 44 F-16s
1996 - WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM
2014 - Slovak biathlete Anastasiya Kuzmina retains her Olympic 7.5k sprint title (Vancouver 2010) at the Sochi Winter Games
2018 - XXIII Olympic Winter Games open in PyeongChang‚ South Korea
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