February 9

On This Day In History
	1757: Calcutta restored to British rule Concluded this day in 1757 by Robert Clive, the Treaty of Alinagar restored Calcutta (Kolkata)—which Clive had recovered in January from Siraj-ud-Dawlah—to British rule and served as a prelude to the seizure of Bengal.
A crowd assembling at the Belur Math temple, near Calcutta (Kolkata), during the annual Durga-puja
Biography Of The Day
	Alice Walker The works of American writer Alice Walker, born this day in 1944 and perhaps best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (1982), are noted for their insightful treatment of African American culture.
Alice Walker, 1992
More Events On This Day In History
1996	1996 German physicist Peter Armbruster synthesized the chemical element 112, a heavy, transuranium element.
1984	1984 Soviet Premier Yury Andropov died 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev and was replaced by Konstantin Chernenko.
1796	1796 The Qianlong emperor of China abdicated and was succeeded by the Jiaqing emperor.