I hate Daylight Savings Time personally. I can see, on this article on Wartime Daylight Savings Time, I'm not the only one.
And a host of big events are listed on Sarah Sundin's blog:
February 9, 1942: French ocean liner Normandie, which had been seized by the US and converted to the troopship USS Lafayette, burns at pier in New York, capsizes next day.
She also mentions the US ordering the registration of enemy aliens on this day and the UK rationing soap.
The Normandie was undergoing conversion into a troop ship at the time. A fire broke out, and ultimately the ship capsized. At the time, sabotage was suspected, but an investigation concluded it was negligence. Some organized crime figures later claimed responsibility, but the ultimate cause remains a mystery, with negligence being the likely cause of the incident. The ship was nearly new, having been built in 1935, and was one of the greatest ocean liners ever built.
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