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Today in History ~ February 9
Events1267 - Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
1540 - The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)
1674 - English reconquer NY from Netherlands
1744 - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
1775 - English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion
1801 - France & Austrian sign Peace of Luneville
1807 - French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
1822 - American Indian Society organizes
1825 - U.S. House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president. Neither Adams nor Jackson a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824. Adams was the son of John Adams, the 2nd president. [H]
1861 - The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis Provisional president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president. also declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
1861 - Tennessee votes against secession
1863 - Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
1864 - Elizabeth Bacon marries George Custer [H]
1870 - US Army establishes US National Weather Service
1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1886 - Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1893 - Suez Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
1893 - Verdi's final opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1904 - Japan declares war on Russia
1906 - Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
1909 - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1913 - -18] 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
1916 - Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1918 - Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va
1918 - Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris
1923 - Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
1926 - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1941 - British troops conquer El Agheila
1941 - Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
1942 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1942 - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
1942 - The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II.
1942 - Normandie burns and sinks in New York Harbor during its conversion to an Allied trip transport ship. This ship was once regarded as most elegant ocean liner ever built.
1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1943 - The epic World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.
1944 - U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland
1947 - Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Phila
1950 - Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1951 - St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45
1953 - "Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
1953 - General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA
1955 - US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
1962 - Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964 - GI Joe character created
1969 - World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1971 - Apollo 14 spacecraft returned to Earth after man's third landing on the moon.
1971 - Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family
1971 - Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball Hall Of Fame
1974 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1979 - Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
1985 - Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1986 - Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1986 - Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
1987 - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1987 - NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
1990 - Galileo flies by Venus
1991 - Voters in Lithuania overwhelmingly endorsed independence from the Soviet Union in a non-binding plebiscite.
1991 - Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin L. Powell met with military commanders in Saudi Arabia to evaluate a possible ground assault against Iraqi forces.
1992 - Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec -- by Thomas School of Germany
1994 - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
1995 - "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
1996 - In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a former member of the city's beach detail shot and killed five former co-workers before killing himself.
1996 - A collision of rush-hour commuter trains in Secaucus, N.J., claimed the lives of both engineers and a passenger.
1996 - The Irish Republican Army ended its cease-fire with a truck bombing in London that killed two and injured 37.
1997 - 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds
1997 - Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
1998 - Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze
2000 - Hackers stepped up their "denial of service" attacks on popular Internet sites, zeroing in on such targets as ETrade and ZDNet, inconveniencing millions of Web users and unnerving Wall Street.
2000 - Boeing Co. engineers and technical workers began a 40-day strike.
Birthdays Today
1404 - Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor
1578 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo)
1602 - Franciscus van de Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker/tutor of Spinoza
1741 - Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer
1773 - William Henry Harrison (9th U.S. President [1841]: the first president to die in office, the shortest term at that [32 days]) was born in Charles City County, Va.
1780 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
1814 - Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library
1834 - Franz Xaver Witt, composer
1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
1865 - Mrs [Beatrice] Patrick Campbell, England, actress (Pygmalion)
1871 - Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
1874 - Amy Lowell (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: What's O'Clock [1926]; Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds)
1885 - Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Vienna Austria, composer
1891 - Ronald Colman (actor: Lost Horizon, Prisoner of Zenda, Around the World in 80 Days, Romola)
1899 - Brian Donlevy (actor: Destry Rides Again, Wake Island, Arizona Bushwackers, Five Golden Dragons, Jesse James, Dangerous Assignment)
1901 - Brian Donlevy, Ireland, actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island)
1909 - Dean Rusk (former U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson)
1913 - Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports funds)
1914 - Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner
1914 - Bill Veeck (baseball executive, promoter: Chicago White Sox)
1914 - Carmen Miranda (de Cunha) ('Brazilian Bombshell': singer: Mama Eu Quero; dancer, actress: The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat; Chiquita Banana)
1914 - Ernest Tubb (Country Music Hall of Famer: Walking the Floor Over You; headlined 1st country music show at Carnegie Hall)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, Seattle Wash, stripper
1923 - Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)
1923 - Kathryn Grayson (Zelma Hednick) (actress: Kiss Me Kate, Show Boat, The Kissing Bandit, It Happened in Brooklyn, Anchors Aweigh)
1923 - Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
1925 - Vic Wertz (baseball)
1928 - Roger Mudd (newsman: CBS News, NBC News, PBS)
1931 - Robert Morris (sculptor)
1933 - Jo Ann Prentice (golfer: Nabisco Dinah Shore Champion [1974])
1942 - Barry Mann (songwriter: with Cynthia Weil on dozens of '60s & '70s 'Brill Bldg.' hits; singer: Who Put the Bomp [in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp])
1942 - Carole King (Klein) (songwriter, singer: Loco-motion, It Might as Well Rain Until September, It's Too Late, Jazzman)
1944 - Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1944 - Barbara Lewis (singer: Make Me Your Baby, Hello Stranger, Baby I'm Yours)
1945 - Bill Bergey (football: Philadelphia Eagles linebacker, Super Bowl XV)
1945 - Mia Farrow (Maria de Lourdes Villers) (actress: Peyton Place, Hannah and Her Sisters; ex-Mrs. Frank Sinatra; ex-Mrs. Woody Allen)
1953 - Andre Sevard (hockey)
Famous deaths
1555 - John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
1567 - Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1583 - Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1617 - Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, dies at 44
1640 - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
1740 - Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85
1765 - Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer, dies at 33
1812 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57
1874 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75
1881 - Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1960 - Ernst von Dohnanyi, US composer, dies at 82
1961 - Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79
1969 - [George] Gabby Hayes, actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83
1973 - Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53
1977 - Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
1978 - Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
1981 - Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55
1984 - Yuri V. Andropov, Soviet leader (Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84) died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev; he was succeeded by Konstantin U. Chernenko.
1994 - Jarmila Novotna, Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
1995 - David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81
1995 - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
1996 - Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe Ace), dies at 83
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