09 February History


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  • 1567    -    Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up.
  • 1799    -    The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
  • 1825    -    The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.
  • 1861    -    Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
  • 1864    -    Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.
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  • 1904    -    Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.
  • 1909    -    France agrees to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy.
  • 1916    -    Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.
  • 1922    -    The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
  • 1942    -    Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India.
  • 1943    -    The Red Army takes back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Germans.
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  • 1946    -    Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.
  • 1951    -    Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.
  • 1953    -    The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam.
  • 1964    -    The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.
  • 1978    -    Canada expels 11 Soviets in spying case.
  • 1994    -    Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.
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  • 09 February Birthdays

  • 1773    -    William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office.
  • 1814    -    Samuel Tilden, philanthropist.
  • 1819    -    Lydia E. Pinkham, patent-medicine maker and entrepeneur.
  • 1846    -    William Maybach, German engineer, designed the first Mercedes automobile.
  • 1871    -    Howard T. Ricketts, pathologist.
  • 1874    -    Amy Lowell, poet.
  • 1880    -    James Stephens, Irish writer (The Charwoman's Daughter, The Crock of Gold).
  • 1909    -    Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • 1923    -    Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and poet (The Hostage, The Quare Fellow).
  • 1944    -    Alice Walker, Pulitzer prize winning author (The Color Purple).