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The Next Official U S Flag Holiday is Lincolns birthday, February 12, 3 days from today. Fly the American flag every day!

 

 

Today in American History - February 9



February 9, 1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th U.S. president, is born.

February 9, 1825 - Although John Quincy Adams loses both the popular and electoral college votes, he is declared president by the U.S. House of Representatives.

February 9, 1861 - The Confederate States of America elect Jefferson Davis as their president.

February 9, 1875 - The Hoosac Tunnel, bored through the Berkshire Mountains, receives its first visitor as a Boston and Maine Railroad train travels through it.

February 9, 1895 - Minnesota State School of Agriculture defeats the Hamline College Porkers in the first every game of American college basketball.

February 9, 1900 - The Davis Cup is first offered to the winner of a competition when British players are invited to play those of Harvard.
 

 

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February 9, 1934 - Airmail delivery companies are accused of ineptness and corruption so President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the U.S. army to fly the mail.

February 9, 1942 - The Normandie, days away from finishing the conversion from ocean liner to trip transport ship for the Allied cause, is destroyed by fire in New York Harbor.

February 9, 1950 - Wisconsin Republican senator Joseph McCarthy declares that he has a list of more than 200 "known communists" working in the State Department.

February 9, 1964 - The Beatles perform live on The Ed Sullivan Show.

February 9, 1965 - The first U.S. troops are committed to the skirmish in Vietnam.

 

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"Liberty has never come from the government.  Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.  The history of liberty is a history of resistance." - Woodrow Wilson

 

 

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If you are looking for a historical document, from the United States Constitution, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, our American historical documents section is the place you will find it.

 

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Share our feelings of grief and anger by visiting the sites in our September 11 tribute area. These are the sites that we found to be among the best organized and most respectful  tributes to the day America was attacked.

 

 

 

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