February 9

1098 – The army of the First Crusade under Bohemond of Taranto defeats a relief force under Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo sent to break the siege of Antioch

1555 – Under the reign of Queen Mary I, Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake for protestant heresy.

1775 – The British Parliament declares the colony of Massachusetts in rebellion.

1778 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.

1861 – Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

1870 – President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.

1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet level agency.

1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1942 – Year round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.

1943 – The Allies declare Guadalcanal secure after confirming the last of Imperial Japanese forces had been evacuated from the island.

1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. (Turns out he was right)

1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

1965 – The United States sends a Marine Corps MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops deployed without an official advisory or training mission.

1971 – Apollo 14 returns to Earth, spalshing down in the south Pacific after making the 3rd manned Moon landing.

1986 – Comet 1P/Halley “Halley’s Comet”, appears in the inner Solar System for the second time in the 20th century.

2001 – Demonstrating an emergency surface south of Oahu, Hawaii, the submarine USS Greeneville collides with the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru, sinking it, killing 9 of the 35 crew aboard.

2021 – The second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins, 20 days after he left office.