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Today in History: February 9

1567 Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up.

1825 The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.

1861 Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

1864 Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.

1916 Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.

1922 The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.

1946 Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.

1951 Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.

1964 The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.

1994 Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.


Born on February 9

1773 William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office.

1846 William Maybach, German engineer, designed the first Mercedes automobile.


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