A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, February 9th!

1773	William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, was born in Charles City County, Va. William Henry Harrison
1799	The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
1825	The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
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.
1942	Daylight-saving “war time” went into effect in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward.
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. Joseph Stalin
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.
1964	The Beatles made their first live American TV appearance, on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
1971	Apollo 14 returned to Earth after man’s third landing on the moon.
1978	Canada expels 11 Soviets in spying case.
1984	Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev. Yuri V. Andropov
1994	Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.
2002	Britain’s Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died at age 71.
2009	New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez admitted he took banned substances from 2001 to 2003.

Today in History facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.