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.