Today in History : February 9
1946 : Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.
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.
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.
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]
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.
Born on February 9
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).
1946 : Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.
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.
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.
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]
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.
Born on February 9
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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