1951
Feb 9, Actress Greta Garbo got U.S. citizenship.

1964
Feb 9, In Britain Maria Callas sang in a live production of Pucini's Tosca produced at Covent Garden by Franco Zeffirelli. It was later made available on video.

1974
Feb 9, US female Figure Skating championship was won by Dorothy Hamill.


1978
Feb 9, Kimberly Leach (12) was killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City, Fla.


1985
Feb 9,Madonna’s album "Like a Virgin," released in 1984, reached #1.
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2005
Feb 9, Carly Fiorina's nearly six-year reign at Hewlett-Packard Co. ended as the company's board forced her out as chief executive. Patricia Dunn took over as chairman. In 2006 Fiorina authored “Tough Choices," a memoir of her tenure at H-P.
2005
Feb 9, In Somalia BBC journalist Kate Peyton was shot to death outside a Mogadishu hotel where she had interviewed some members of the interim parliament.

2009
Feb 9, In Madagascar defense minister Cecile Manorohanta said she has resigned because civilians were killed when security forces fired on anti-government protesters over the weekend.

2009
Feb 9, In Sri Lanka a woman with a bomb strapped to her body hid in a crowd of civilians at a refugee camp in Vishvamadu, blowing herself up and killing 29 people as security forces frisked people fleeing the northern war zone.
2009 Feb 9, In Switzerland Paula Oliviera (26), a lawyer from Brazil, claimed she was attacked by three skinheads, one with a Nazi symbol tattooed on the back of his head, outside a Zurich train station. On Feb 13 investigators said was not pregnant and probably cut wounds into herself.

2011
Feb 9, Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui said that she was let go by MVS radio for refusing to apologize for her Feb 4 comments regarding a congressman's allegation that President Felipe Calderon is an alcoholic. The firing stirred a debate over freedom of expression in Mexico and allegations that the government still holds sway over the media. Aristegui was reinstated on Feb 14.

2012
Feb 9, It was reported that a woman (35) recently walked through a field in northern Mozambique, near where a group of teenage boys were undergoing their ritual circumcision into adulthood. Accusing her of trespassing on sacred ground forbidden to women, the traditional leader meted out his punishment: He ordered 17 of his young initiates to gang rape her. Four of the youths were arrested.