Today In History

Tue., Feb. 9, 1999

In 1825: The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.

In 1861: The provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president.

In 1943: The World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.

In 1950: In a speech in Wheeling, W. Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists.

In 1964: The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

In 1971: The “Apollo 14” spacecraft returned to Earth after man’s third landing on the moon.

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