Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
February 9
| 1567 | Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up. | |
| 1799 | The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies. | |
| 1825 | The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President. | |
| 1861 | Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. | |
| 1864 | Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich. | |
| 1904 | Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers. | |
| 1909 | France agrees to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy. | |
| 1916 | Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective. | |
| 1922 | The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission. | |
| 1942 | Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India. | |
| 1943 | The Red Army takes back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Germans. | |
| 1946 | Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent. | |
| 1951 | Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship. | |
| 1953 | The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam. | |
| 1964 | The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students. | |
| 1978 | Canada expels 11 Soviets in spying case. | |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa. | |
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Born on February 9 |
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| 1773 | William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office. | |
| 1814 | Samuel Tilden, philanthropist. | |
| 1819 | Lydia E. Pinkham, patent-medicine maker and entrepeneur. | |
| 1846 | William Maybach, German engineer, designed the first Mercedes automobile. | |
| 1871 | Howard T. Ricketts, pathologist. | |
| 1874 | Amy Lowell, poet. | |
| 1880 | James Stephens, Irish writer (The Charwoman's Daughter, The Crock of Gold). | |
| 1909 | Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. | |
| 1923 | Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and poet (The Hostage, The Quare Fellow). | |
| 1944 | Alice Walker, Pulitzer prize winning author (The Color Purple). | |
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