02-08-2011, 09:19 PM
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February 9th
1825 ~ After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President.
1881 ~ Death of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author.
1906 ~ Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet.
1910 ~ Birthday of Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1943 ~ American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure.
1950 ~ Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the U.S. State Department was infested with Communists.
1971 ~ Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1981 ~ Birthday of John Walker Lindh, American Taliban.
1984 ~ Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev.
2001 ~ The USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank the Japanese training vessel Ehime-Maru.
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