TODAY HISTORY LESSON: FEBRUARY 9
474 Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire together with his son Leo II
1567 Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up.
1775 British Parliament declares Massachusetts colony in rebellion
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 Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state
1886 President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1922 The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
1941 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang “No Entry for Jews” signs in front of cafe)
1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1943 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific
1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had evidence there were card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the State Department.
1953 The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam.
1959 The world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile becomes operational in the USSR
1964 The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.
1969 The Boeing 747 flies for the first time
1978 Canada expels 11 Soviets in spying case.
1990 Galileo flies by Venus
1991 Lithuanians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.
1996 The Irish paramilitary organization IRA ends an 18-month ceasefire by exploding a large bomb in London
2001 A U.S. nuclear sub struck the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
