History for February 9 - On-This-Day.com
William Henry Harrison (U.S.) 1773, Gypsy Rose Lee 1914, Carole King 1942 - Singer
Joe Pesci 1943 - Actor, Alice Walker 1944 - Author ("The Color Purple"), Mia Farrow 1945 - Actress
1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president. No candidate had received a majority of electoral votes.
1950 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. This was the beginning of "McCarthyism."
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