February 9<\/p>\n
1098 \u2013 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<\/p>\n
1555 \u2013 Under the reign of Queen Mary I, Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake for protestant heresy.<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013 The British Parliament declares the colony of Massachusetts in rebellion.<\/p>\n
1778 \u2013 Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.<\/p>\n
1825 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n
1870 \u2013 President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.<\/p>\n
1889 \u2013 President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet level agency.<\/p>\n
1922 \u2013 Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 Year round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.<\/p>\n
1943 \u2013 The Allies declare Guadalcanal secure after confirming the last of Imperial Japanese forces had been evacuated from the island.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2013 Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. (Turns out he was right)<\/p>\n
1964 \u2013 The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.<\/p>\n
1965 \u2013 The United States sends a Marine Corps MIM-23 Hawk<\/em> missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops deployed without an official advisory or training mission.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Apollo 14 returns to Earth, spalshing down in the south Pacific after making the 3rd manned Moon landing.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 Comet 1P\/Halley “Halley’s Comet”, appears in the inner Solar System for the second time in the 20th century.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Demonstrating an emergency surface south of Oahu, Hawaii, the submarine USS Greeneville <\/em>collides with the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru, <\/em>sinking it, killing 9 of the 35 crew aboard.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 The second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins, 20 days after he left office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 9 1098 \u2013 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 \u2013 Under the reign of Queen Mary I, Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake for protestant heresy. 1775 \u2013 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89930,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64652\/revisions\/89930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}