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What happened in history on this day: February 9?
On February 9 in ...
- 1793 - Congress passes an act regulating legal tender value of foreign coins.
- 1799 - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, West Indies.
- 1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US President.
- 1861 - Tennessee votes against secession.
- 1870 - US President Ulysses Grant signs the bill establishing Federal Meteorological Service.
- 1871 - Federal fish protection office authorized by US Congress.
- 1886 - President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle, Washington because of anti-Chinese violence.
- 1895 - Volleyball is invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts, USA.
- 1909 - First US federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium).
- 1909 - First forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio, USA.
- 1918 - Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
- 1926 - Teaching theory of evolution is forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia, USA schools.
- 1932 - US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, New York).
- 1933 - -63 degrees F (-53 degrees C), Moran, Wyoming (state record low).
- 1934 - -14.3 degrees F (-25.8 degrees C), coldest day in New York City, New York.
- 1934 - -51 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record low).
- 1942 - In New York harbor, the USS Lafayette (formerly Normandie) is accidentally ignited by a welding torch during conversion for troopship use. While fighting the fire, too much water poured into the ship capsizes it, setting it on its side in the harbor.
- 1942 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US.
- 1943 - US President Franklin Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry.
- 1953 - General Walter Bedell Smith ends his term as fourth director of the American Central Intelligence Agency. Allen W Dulles becomes acting director.
- 1955 - US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO.
- 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1963 - First flight of Boeing 727 jet.
- 1964 - First appearance of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show (73.7 million viewers, about 40 percent of US population).
- 1969 - World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes first commercial flight.
- 1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth.
- 1971 - In San Fernando, California, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurs. The earthquake lasts about 60 seconds, kills 65, injures more than 2,000, and causes property damage estimated at $505 million.
- 1985 - U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico (his body is discovered March 5).
- 1987 - Former US national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide.
- 1987 - Brownsville, Texas is deluged with seven inches of rain in just two hours; flooding in some parts of the city is worse than that caused by Hurricane Beulah in 1967.
- 2001 - The submarine USS Greeneville strikes and sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru near Hawaii.
- 2002 - (to February 24) The XIX Olympic Winter Games are held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
- 2008 - In Oceanside, New York, Philip Weiss Auctions conducts the auction of the Newport Collection of US inverted center error stamps. Some highlights:
- US 1918 24-cent Jenny airmail stamp, inverted center: US$271,200;
- US 1869 15-cent Landing of Columbus stamp, inverted center, unused without gum, one of three known unused: US$757,100;
- US 1869 24-cent Declaration of Independence stamp, inverted center, unused without gum, one of four known unused: US$1.27 million, a new record for a single US stamp;
- US 1869 30-cent Shield, Eagle, and Flags stamp, one of seven known unused: US$248,600.
- 2009 - New York Yankees' baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez admits to having used performance-enhancing steroids earlier in his career, over a three-year period from 2001 to 2003 with the Texas Rangers.
Births on February 9
- 1831 - Birth of John M. Eckfeldt; US Mint Chief Coiner.
- 1892 - Birth of Peggy Wood in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (One Life to Live, Mama).
- 1902 - Birth of Chester H. Lauck in Allene, Arkansas, USA; actor (Lum & Abner radio show, Dreaming Out Loud, Two Weeks to Live).
- 1914 - Birth of Bill Justice in Ohio, USA; joined Disney studio 1937, animator, programmer, parade designer, Imagineer, designer of attractions at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Tokyo Disneyland, retired 1979, author of Justice for Disney (1992), named a Disney Legend 1996.
- 1914 - Birth of Ernest Tubb in Texas, USA; guitarist/singer ("I'm Walking the Floor over You").
- 1914 - Birth of Ralph Herman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; orchestra leader (Circus Time).
- 1923 - Birth of Kathryn Grayson in North Carolina, USA; vocalist/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate).
- 1923 - Birth of Norman E Shumway in Michigan, USA; pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon.
- 1928 - Birth of Roger Mudd in Washington DC, USA; news anchor (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News).
- 1933 - Birth of Ronnie Claire Edwards in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; actress (Corabeth - The Waltons TV show, Eight Seconds, Sweet Bird of Youth).
- 1934 - Birth of John A Ziegler Junior in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA; fourth NHL president (1977-92).
- 1942 - Birth of Carole King [Klein], in Brooklyn, New York, USA; pianist/singer (Tapestry).
- 1943 - Birth of James King in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; basketball player (Olympics-gold-1968).
- 1943 - Birth of Joe Pesci in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas, Pink Panther).
- 1943 - Birth of Squire Fridell in Oakland, California, USA; actor (Rosetti and Ryan).
- 1945 - Birth of Mia (Maria) Farrow in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo, Third Watch, Peyton Place).
- 1947 - Birth of Joe Ely in Amarillo, Texas, USA; country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade).
- 1949 - Birth of Judith Light in Trenton, New Jersey, USA; actress (Angela - Who's The Boss?, One Life to Live, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Ugly Betty).
- 1950 - Birth of Lloyd Weldon Keasor in Pumphrey, Maryland, USA; wrestler (Olympics-silver-1976).
- 1951 - Birth of Penny Peyser in Irvington, New York, USA; actress (Rich Man Poor Man, Knots Landing).
- 1955 - Birth of James Jackson "Jm J" Bullock in Casper, Wyoming, USA; actor (Monroe - Too Close for Comfort).
- 1956 - Birth of Philip Jackson Ford Junior in North Carolina, USA; basketball player (Olympics-gold-1976).
- 1963 - Birth of Bonnie Levin in Miami Beach, Florida, USA; WPVA volleyball player.
- 1963 - Birth of Travis Tritt in Marietta, Georgia, USA; country vocalist ("Country Club").
- 1966 - Birth of James "Rachel" Bolan in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA; rocker (Skid Row - "Psycho Love").
- 1967 - Birth of Kate Golden in Beaumont, Texas, USA; LPGA golfer (1992 Ping/Welch-5th).
- 1967 - Birth of Todd Pratt; US baseball catcher (Philadelphia Phillies).
- 1968 - Birth of Marcus Meloan in Agana, Guam; Canadian Tour golfer (1992 US Amateur Champion).
- 1968 - Birth of Paul Claxton in Vidalia, Georgia, USA; Nike golfer (NIKE Central Georgia Open-38th).
- 1969 - Birth of Todd Lyght; US football quarterback (Saint Louis Rams).
- 1971 - Birth of Ken Felder; US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers).
- 1971 - Birth of Sharon Case in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actress (Sharon Collins - The Young and the Restless).
- 1973 - Birth of Amber Valletta in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; model (Face, House of Style, Bazaar).
Deaths on February 9
- 1892 - Death of John Jay Knox, US Comptroller of Currency.
- 1966 - Death of Sophie Tucker at age 79 of lung and kidney disease; burlesque entertainer (Ed Sullivan Show TV show, The Good Life TV show).
- 1973 - Max Yasgur, owner of Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at age 53.
- 1981 - Death of William John Clifton Haley Junior AKA Bill Haley of a heart attack or brain tumor at age 55, found dead, fully clothed on his bed at his home in Harlington, Texas, USA; rock and roll music pioneer (Bill Haley and His Comets, "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock").
- 1994 - Jarmila Novotna, Czechoslovakia/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at age 86.
- 1994 - Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone With the Wind), dies at age 88.
- 1994 - Death of Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1934).
- 1995 - Death of David Wayne AKA Wayne Mcmeekan of lung cancer at age 81; actor (Batman TV show, Dallas TV show, House Calls TV show, St. Elsewhere TV show, Ellery Queen TV show, Matt Houston TV show, Disneyland TV show).
- 1995 - J William Fulbright, American politician (Senator-Democrat-Arkansas)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at age 89.
- 2001 - Death of Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916).
- 2010 - Death of Francine Irving Neff; US Treasurer (1974-77).
- 2021 - Death of Armando Corea AKA Chick Corea at age 79; American pianist (Miles Davis), composer, pioneer of jazz fusion (Return to Forever band, "Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy" song (1973), "Spain" song (1973), 23 Grammy awards).
- 2022 - Death of Jeremy Giambi at age 47 of suicide in Claremont, California, USA; baseball player (Major League Baseball), actor (Moneyball movie (2011)).
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