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