TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 9
1267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
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 is in rebellion
1799 The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
1825 The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as the sixth U.S. President.
1861 Tennessee votes against secession
1861 Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
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.
1926 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta GA schools
1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1943 Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. [From MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History]
1950 U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy launches his anti-communist campaign
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.
1978 Canada expels 11 Soviets in a 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
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