Other Notable Events, February 9
Published in History & Quotes
In 1825, after no presidential candidate won the necessary majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams the sixth president of the United States.
In 1900, the solid silver trophy known as the Davis Cup was first put up for competition when American collegian Dwight Filley Davis challenged British tennis players to compete against his Harvard team.
In 1943, in a major World War II strategic victory, the Allies retook Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Japanese.
In 1950, U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous McCarthy era.
In 1964, the Beatles appeared on television's The Ed Sullivan Show. An estimated 73 million people watched.
In 1971, Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player voted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
In 1984, Soviet President Yuri Andropov, in power 15 months, died at age 69.
In 1991, Lithuanians overwhelmingly voted to secede from the Soviet Union.
In 2001, nine people were killed when the U.S. submarine USS Greenville collided with a Japanese fishing boat off the coast of Hawaii during a surfacing drill.
In 2008, the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis delivered a $2 billion science lab to the International Space Station, doubling its zero-gravity research capacity.
In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed a memorandum setting up a federal task force to tackle childhood obesity.
In 2012, after a yearlong study, the Pentagon announced that women in the United States military will be permanently assigned to battalions but combat would remain off-limits for them.
In 2013, Afzal Guru, who authorities said was the mastermind behind a 2001 attack on India's Parliament that killed seven people, was executed in New Delhi.
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