February 9th
Today in America's Present Past
1769 | Entrepreneur William King was born.
1771 | Composer Daniel Belknap was born.
1773 | POTUS: President William Henry Harrison was born.
1814 | Political Samuel J. Tilden was born.
1822 | Civil Rights: American Indian Society formed.
1825 | POTUS: Congress elects John Quincy Adams as President.
1826 | General John Alexander Logan was born.
1861 | Civil War: Tennessee votes against succession.
1864 | George Armstrong Custer weds Elizabeth Clift Bacon.
1871 | Congress: Establishes the Office of Fish Protection.
1874 | Poet Amy Lowell was born.
1886 | Civil Rights: Democrat President Grover Cleveland declares an emergency in Seattle, Washington, due to anti-Chinese violence.
1895 | William Morgan introduces “volleyball,” then called “Mintonette” at Springfield College.
1906 | Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar died.
1909 | Political Dean Rusk was born.
1909 | Congress: Passage of the first federal anti-narcotics legislation.
1926 | Atlanta, Georgia bans the teaching of evolution in government schools.
1928 | Journalist Roger Mudd was born.
1940 | Boxer Joe Louis wins the heavyweight title, besting Arturo Godoy.
1943 | WWII: U.S. forces liberate Guadalcanal.
1943 | Actor Joe Pesci was born.
1943 | WWII: Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a law requiring a minimum 48-hour work week in many industries.
1943 | Economist Joseph Stiglitz was born.
1948 | Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1950 | Congress: U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charges the U.S. State Department as housing 205 Communist Party members.
1955 | The AFL-CIO is formed via a merger of two warring unions.
1964 | TV: The British rock group “The Beatles” appears on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1971 | Civil Rights: Wilmington riot in North Carolina.
1973 | Actor Colin Egglesfield was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
2001 | Political Scientist Herbert Simon died.