What happened on 9 February?

5 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1913 The Ten Tragic Days Ten days of artillery duels wreck Mexico City while General Victoriano Huerta — Madero's own commander, with the US ambassador brokering in the embassy — betrays and deposes the pr
2. 1950 McCarthyism Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting campaign chills American public life.
3. 2020 Parasite wins Best Picture Bong Joon-ho's South Korean film; first non-English-language Best Picture winner.
4. 1737 Born: Thomas Paine Anglo-American radical; pamphleteer of both the American and French Revolutions.
5. 1893 Verdi's Falstaff premieres Verdi, nearly eighty, ends his career with a comedy: Boito's Shakespearean fat knight, closing on a fugue that declares all the world a joke.