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Today, February 9, 2026
February 9: National Pizza Day: --
National Pizza Day observed, which celebrates one of America's
all-time favorite foods. Whether it is thin crust, Chicago-style,
deep dish, or anything in between, pizza is an American favorite.
We love our pizzas, and they come in so many varieties, too. As we
nosh on our favorite, explore a few pizza facts: Pepperoni is the
most popular pizza at 36% of all pies ordered; Over 3 billion
pizzas are sold in the USA each year. Add another 1 billion on
frozen pizzas; In the United States, 17% of all restaurants are
pizzerias; Antica Pizzeria, the first Pizzeria, opened in Naples,
Italy, in 1738; Gennaro Lombardi, the first Pizzeria in the United
States, opened in 1895 in New York City; Americans consume on
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Today, February 9, 2026
February 9, 1825: Elections: Elections In
The United States: The 1824 United States Presidential Election:
-- Since none of the candidates for president - John Quincy Adams,
Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay - received a
majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of
1824, the United States House Of Representatives, having been
given the task on December 1, 1824 of holding a contingent
election to select the president in accordance with the Twelfth
Amendment to the United States Constitution, elects John Quincy
Adams as President of the United States. The 1824 United States
Presidential Election was the tenth quadrennial presidential
election, held from Tuesday, October 26 to Thursday, December 2,
1824. No candidate won a majority of the electoral vote, becoming
the only election to require a contingent election in the House of
Representatives. On February 9, 1825, the House chose John Quincy
Adams as president. It was the first election in which the winner
did not achieve at least a plurality of the national popular vote.
Adams won New England, Jackson and Adams split the mid-Atlantic
states, Jackson and Clay split the Western states, and Jackson and
Crawford split the Southern states. Jackson finished with a
plurality of the electoral and popular vote, while the other three
candidates each finished with a significant share of the votes.
Calhoun became the de facto running mate of Adams and as such was
elected with a comfortable majority of the vice presidential vote
in the Electoral College. Clay, who was not a top three finisher,
was constitutionally eliminated. Influential within the contingent
election, Clay threw his support behind Adams, who shared many of
his positions on the major issues. With Clay's backing, Adams won
the contingent election on the first ballot. In reaction to
allegations of a "corrupt bargain" between Adams and
Henry Clay and the ambitious agenda of President Adams, Jackson's
supporters founded the Democratic Party. Four years later, Jackson
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Today, February 9, 2026
February 9, 1861: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Confederate
States Of America (CSA) (The Confederate States (C.S.), The
Confederacy): The Presidency Of The Confederate States Of America:
-- A Confederate constitutional convention meeting at Montgomery,
Alabama unanimously elects Jefferson Davis President of the
Confederate States of America, acclaimed by the convention as the
"champion of a slave society and [having] embodied the values
of the planter class"; they likewise elected unanimously
Alexander H. Stephens as provisional Vice President. He was
inaugurated on February 18. By November 6, 1861, Davis was elected
to a full six-year term as President of the Confederate States of
America. On January 21, 1861, Jefferson Davis, on what he called
"the saddest day of my life", delivered his farewell
address to the United States Senate, resigned from the U.S. Senate
and returned to Mississippi, after having waited before doing so
to receive official notification of Mississippi's ordinance of
secession from the Union passed on January 9. By 1856, the South
had lost control of Congress, and was no longer able to silence
calls for an end to slavery, which came mostly from the more
populated, free states of the North. The Republican Party, founded
in 1854, pledged to stop the spread of slavery beyond those states
where it already existed. After Abraham Lincoln was elected the
first Republican president in 1860, seven cotton states - South
Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and
Texas respectively - declared their secession and formed the
Confederate States of America before Lincoln was inaugurated. The
United States government, both outgoing and incoming, refused to
recognize the Confederacy, and when the new Confederate President
Jefferson Davis ordered his troops to open fire on Fort Sumter in
April 1861, there was an overwhelming demand, North and South, for
war. Only the state of Kentucky attempted to remain neutral, but
it could only do so briefly until it chose to remain in the Union.
When Lincoln called for troops to suppress what he referred to as
"combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary"
judicial or martial means, four more states - Virginia, Arkansas,
Tennessee and North Carolina - decided to secede and join the
Confederacy, which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia.
Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to
secede along with the rest of the state. This section of Virginia
was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia on June
20, 1863. Four slave states decided to stay in the Union:
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Although divided in
their loyalties, a combination of political maneuvering and Union
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Today, February 9, 2026
February 9, 1870: Weather: Weather
Forecasting: The History Of Weather Forecasting: Weather
Forecasting In The United States: The Weather Bureau (The United
States Weather Bureau, later renamed The National Weather Service
[NWS]): -- United States President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint
resolution of Congress establishing the The Weather Bureau; it
would be renamed in 1890 as The United States Weather Bureau until
it was again it was again renamed to its current designation, The
National Weather Service. Calls for the creation of a government
weather bureau began as early as 1844, when the electrical
telegraph was introduced. In 1869, Cleveland Abbe began developing
probabilistic forecasts using daily weather data sent via
telegraph by the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and Western Union,
which he convinced to back the collection of such information.
Meanwhile, Increase A. Lapham of Wisconsin lobbied Congress to
create such a service, having witnessed the destructive power of
storms in the Great Lakes region. Representative Halbert E. Paine
introduced a bill to provide the funding, and in 1870, the Weather
Bureau of the United States was established through a joint
resolution of Congress signed by President Ulysses S. Grant with a
mission to "provide for taking meteorological observations at
the military stations in the interior of the continent and at
other points in the States and Territories... and for giving
notice on the northern (Great) Lakes and on the seacoast by
magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force
of storms." The agency was placed under the Secretary of War
as Congress felt "military discipline would probably secure
the greatest promptness, regularity, and accuracy in the required
observations." Within the Department of War, it was assigned
to the U.S. Army Signal Service under Brigadier General Albert J.
Myer. General Myer gave the National Weather Service its first
name: The Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of
Commerce. Abbe was appointed as the Bureau's first chief
meteorologist. In his earlier role as the civilian assistant to
the chief of the Signal Service, Abbe urged the Department of War
to research weather conditions to provide a scientific basis
behind the forecasts; he would continue to urge the study of
meteorology as a science after becoming Weather Bureau chief.
While a debate went on between the Signal Service and Congress
over whether the forecasting of weather conditions should be
handled by civilian agencies or the Signal Service's existing
forecast office, a Congressional committee was formed to oversee
the matter, recommending that the office's operations be
transferred to the Department of War following a two-year
investigation. The agency first became a civilian enterprise in
1890, when it became part of the Department of Agriculture. Under
the oversight of that branch, the Bureau began issuing flood
warnings and fire weather forecasts, and issued the first daily
national surface weather maps; it also established a network to
distribute warnings for tropical cyclones as well as a data
exchange service that relayed European weather analysis to the
Bureau and vice versa. The first Weather Bureau radiosonde was
launched in Massachusetts in 1937, which prompted a switch from
routine aircraft observation to radiosondes within two years. The
Bureau prohibited the word "tornado" from being used in
any of its weather products out of concern for inciting panic (a
move contradicted in its intentions by the high death tolls in
past tornado outbreaks due to the lack of advanced warning) until
1938, when it began disseminating tornado warnings exclusively to
emergency management personnel. The Bureau would later be moved to
the Department of Commerce in 1940. In 1941, Margaret Smagorinsky
(nee Knoepfel) was hired as the Weather Bureau's first female
statistician. On July 12, 1950, Bureau chief Francis W.
Reichelderfer officially lifted the agency's ban on public tornado
alerts in a Circular Letter, noting to all first order stations
that "Weather Bureau employees should avoid statements that
can be interpreted as a negation of the Bureau's willingness or
ability to make tornado forecasts", and that a "good
probability of verification" exist when issuing such
forecasts due to the difficulty in accurately predicting tornadic
activity. However, it would not be until it faced criticism for
continuing to refuse to provide public tornado warnings and
preventing the release of the USAF Severe Weather Warning Center's
tornado forecasts (pioneered in 1948 by Air Force Capt. Robert C.
Miller and Major Ernest Fawbush) beyond military personnel that
the Bureau issued its first experimental public tornado forecasts
in March 1952. In 1957, the Bureau began using radars for
short-term forecasting of local storms and hydrological events,
using modified versions of those used by Navy aircraft to create
the WSR-57 (Weather Surveillance Radar, 1957), with a network of
WSR systems being deployed nationwide through the early 1960s;]
some of the radars were upgraded to WSR-74 models beginning in
1974. The Weather Bureau became part of the Environmental Science
Services Administration when that agency was formed in August
1966. The Environmental Science Services Administration was
renamed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
on October 1, 1970, with the enactment of the National
Environmental Policy Act. At this time, the Weather Bureau became
the National Weather Service. NEXRAD (Next Generation Radar), a
system of Doppler radars deployed to improve the detection and
warning time of severe local storms, replaced the WSR-57 and
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Today, February 9, 2026
February 9, 1896: #BOTD: #HBD! Alberto
Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (d. December 30,
1982) is #born Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chavez in Arequipa, Peru,
the son of noted Peruvian photographer Max T. Vargas. A noted
painter of pin-up girls, he is often considered one of the most
famous of the pin-up artists. Numerous Vargas paintings have sold
and continue to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Alberto
Vargas moved to the United States in 1916 after studying art in
Europe, Zurich, and Geneva prior to World War I. While he was in
Europe he came upon the French magazine La Vie Parisienne, with a
cover by Raphael Kirchner, which he said was a great influence on
his work.His early career in New York included work as an artist
for the Ziegfeld Follies and for many Hollywood studios. Ziegfeld
hung his painting of Olive Thomas at the theater, and she was
thought of as one of the earliest Vargas Girls. Vargas' most
famous piece of film work was for the poster of the 1933 film The
Sin of Nora Moran, which shows a near-naked Zita Johann in a pose
of desperation. The poster is frequently named one of the greatest
movie posters ever made. He became widely noted in the 1940s as
the creator of iconic World War-II era pin-ups for Esquire
magazine known as "Vargas Girls." Between 1940 and 1946
Vargas produced 180 paintings for the magazine. The nose art of
many American and Allied World War II aircraft was inspired and
adapted from these Esquire pin-ups, as well as those of George
Petty, and other artists. In 2004, Hugh Hefner, the founder and
Editor-in-Chief of Playboy, who had previously worked for Esquire,
wrote: "The US Post Office attempted to put Esquire out of
business in the 1940s by taking away its second-class mailing
permit. The Feds objected, most especially, to the cartoons and
the pin-up art of Alberto Vargas. Esquire prevailed in the case
that went to the Supreme Court, but the magazine dropped the
cartoons just to be on the safe side". A legal dispute with
Esquire over the use of the name "Varga" resulted in a
judgement against Vargas. He struggled financially until 1959 when
Playboy magazine began to use his work. Over the next 16 years he
produced 152 paintings for the magazine. His career flourished and
he had major exhibitions of his work all over the world. Vargas'
artistic work, paintings and color drawings, were periodically
featured in some issues of Playboy magazine in the 1960s and
1970s. The death of his wife Anna Mae in 1974 left him devastated,
and he stopped painting. Anna Mae had been his model and business
manager, his muse in every way. The publication of his
autobiography in 1978 renewed interest in his work and brought him
partially out of his self-imposed retirement to do a few works,
such as album covers for The Cars (Candy-O, 1979) and Bernadette
Peters (Bernardette Peters, 1980; Now Playing, 1981). Many of
Vargas' works from his period with Esquire are now held by the
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. It was given
those works in 1980 along with a large body of other art from the
magazine. At the December 2003 Christie's auction of Playboy
archives, the 1967 Vargas painting Trick or Treat sold for 71,600
USD. His work was typically a combination of watercolor and
airbrush. His mastery of the airbrush is acknowledged by the
founding of the Vargas Award, awarded annually by Airbrush Action
Magazine, which was named after him. Despite always using figure
models, he often portrayed elegantly dressed, semi-nude to nude
women of idealized proportions. Vargas' artistic trait would be
slender fingers and toes, with nails often painted red. Vargas is
widely regarded as one of the finest artists in his genre. He also
served as a judge for the Miss Universe beauty contest from 1956
to 1958. Notable women painted by Vargas include Olive Thomas,
Billie Burke, Nita Naldi, Marilyn Miller, Paulette Goddard,
Bernadette Peters, Irish McCalla, Ruth Etting and Candy Moore from
The Cars' Candy-O album. Alberto Vargas died of a stroke in Los
Angeles, California at the age of 86. His burial details are not
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Today, February 9, 2026
February 9, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Dean Rusk,
American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary Of
State (d. December 20, 1994) is #born David Dean Rusk in rural
Cherokee County, Georgia. He is one of the longest serving U.S.
Secretaries of State, behind only Cordell Hull. Dean Rusk taught
at Mills College after graduating from Davidson College. During
World War II, Rusk served as a staff officer in the China Burma
India Theater. He was hired by the United States Department of
State in 1945 and became Assistant Secretary Of State for Far
Eastern Affairs in 1950. In 1952, Rusk became president of the
Rockefeller Foundation. After winning the 1960 presidential
election, Kennedy asked Rusk to serve as Secretary Of State. He
supported diplomatic efforts during the Cuban Missile Crisis and
expressed doubts about the escalation of the U.S. role in the
Vietnam War. Rusk served for the duration of the Kennedy and
Johnson administrations before retiring from public office in
1969. After leaving office, he taught international relations at
the University of Georgia School of Law. Dean Rusk died of heart
failure in Athens, Georgia at the age of 85. He and his wife are
buried at the Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens. Rusk Eating House,
the first women's eating house at Davidson College, was founded in
1977 and is named in his honor. The Dean Rusk International
Studies Program at Davidson College is also named in his honor.
Dean Rusk Middle School, located in Canton, Georgia, was named in
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February 9, 1928: #BOTD: #HBD! Roger
Mudd, American broadcast journalist who was a prominent
correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News (d. March 9,
2021) is #born Roger Harrison Mudd in Washington, D.C.. Mudd was
collateral descendant of Samuel Mudd (meaning he descended from
another branch within the same extensive family tree), the doctor
who was imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes
Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mudd worked most
recently as the primary anchor for The History Channel.
Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the
CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News,
and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press, and American Almanac TV
programs. Mudd is the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Joan
Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five
Emmy Awards. Roger Mudd died from complications of kidney failure
at his home in McLean, Virginia at the age of 93. His burial
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February 9, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Carole
King, American singer-songwriter and pianist is #born Carol Joan
Klein in Manhattan, New York to her Jewish parents Eugenia (nee
Cammer), a teacher, and Sidney N. Klein, a firefighter. Carole
King has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff
songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. The
character "Teenaged Louise" in the movie "American
Hot Wax" played by Laraine Newman is based on King. She is
the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the
20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits
on the Billboard Hot 100. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in
the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK
singles charts between 1952 and 2005. King's major success began
in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote
more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become
standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for
other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own
right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs,
accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and
concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her
debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album
Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971
and remained on the charts for more than six years. King has made
25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the
record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20
years. Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million
copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted
into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame for her songwriting. She is the recipient of the 2013 Library
of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be
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February 9, 1950: Anti-Communism In The
United States: The Red Scare: The Second Red Scare: McCarthyism:
-- US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department
of State of being filled with Communists. McCarthyism, also known
as the Second Red Scare, is the practice of making accusations of
subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term
refers to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and has its origins in the
period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting
roughly from 1947 to 1956 and characterized by heightened
political repression as well as a campaign spreading fear of
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February 9, 1943: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World
War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Solomon
Islands Campaign: The Battle Of Guadalcanal (The Guadalcanal
Campaign, Operation Watchtower): -- U.S. troops capture
Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands after six months of battle,
after some 9,000 Japanese and 2,000 Americans were killed. On
February 7, Imperial Japanese Navy forces completee the evacuation
of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation
Ke, the largely successful operation to evacuate its forces from
Guadalcanal that ended Japanese attempts to retake the island from
Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign. This concluded the
Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. The operation took place
between January 14 and February 7. 1943, and involved both army
and navy forces under the overall direction of the Japanese
Imperial General Headquarters (IGH). Commanders of the operation
included Isoroku Yamamoto and Hitoshi Imamura. The Japanese
decided to withdraw and concede Guadalcanal to Allied forces for
several reasons. All previous attempts by the Japanese army to
recapture Henderson Field, the airfield on Guadalcanal in use by
Allied aircraft, had been repulsed with heavy losses. Japanese
ground forces on the island had been reduced from 36,000 to 11,000
through starvation, disease, and battle casualties. Japanese naval
forces in the area were also suffering heavy losses attempting to
reinforce and resupply the ground forces on the island. These
losses, plus the projected resources needed for further attempts
to recapture Guadalcanal, were affecting strategic security and
operations in other areas of the Japanese Empire. The decision to
withdraw was endorsed by Emperor Hirohito on December 31, 1942.
The operation began on January 14, 1943 with the delivery of a
battalion of infantry troops to Guadalcanal to act as rearguard
for the evacuation. Around the same time, Japanese army and navy
air forces began an air superiority campaign around the Solomon
Islands and New Guinea. During the air campaign, a US cruiser was
sunk in the Battle of Rennell Island. Two days later, Japanese
aircraft sank a US destroyer near Guadalcanal. The actual
withdrawal was carried out on the nights of February 1, 4, and 7
by destroyers. At a cost of one destroyer sunk and three damaged,
the Japanese evacuated 10,652 men from Guadalcanal. 600 of those
died during the evacuation, and 3,000 more required extensive
hospital care. On February 9, Allied forces realized that the
Japanese were gone and declared Guadalcanal secure, ending the
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February 9, 1959: The History Of
Rocketry: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs):
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) Of The Soviet Union:
The R-7 Rocket Family: The R-7 Semyorka (Russian: R-7 Siemiorka):
-- The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile,
becomes operational when the first strategic-missile firing unit
becomes operational at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Mirny, Arkhangelsk
Oblast in the north-west of the USSR. On December 15, 1959, the
R-7 missile was tested at Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the first time.
The missiles were fully deployed by 1962. The R-7 made 28 launches
between 1957 and 1961. A derivative, the R-7A, was deployed from
1959 to 1968. In modified form, it launched Sputnik 1, the first
artificial satellite, into orbit, and became the basis for the R-7
family which includes Sputnik, Luna, Molniya, Vostok, and Voskhod
space launchers, as well as later Soyuz variants. More R-7 rockets
have been launched than any other family of large rockets, and
virtually all Soviet space flights used it. The widely used
nickname for the R-7 launcher, "Semyorka", means "the
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Today, February 9, 2026
February 9, 1964: Premieres: Television
Premieres: United States Television Premieres: -- The Beatles make
their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before
a record-busting audience of 73 million viewers in over 23 million
households, or 34 percent of the American population. According to
the Nielsen rating service, it was the largest audience that had
ever been recorded for an American television program. The next
morning, the Beatles awoke to a largely negative critical
consensus in the US, but a day later at their first US concert,
Beatlemania erupted at the Washington Coliseum. Back in New York
the following day, the Beatles met with another strong reception
during two shows at Carnegie Hall. The band flew to Florida, where
they appeared on the weekly Ed Sullivan Show a second time, before
another 70 million viewers, before returning to the UK on February
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February 9, 1971: Natural Disasters:
Natural Disasters In The United States: Earthquakes (Quakes,
Tremors, Temblors): The 1971 San Fernando Earthquake (The 1971
Sylmar Earthquake): -- The 1971 San Fernando Earthquake occurs in
the early morning in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in
southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake had a
magnitude of 6.5 on the Surface-Wave Magnitude Scale (Ms Scale;
measures surface effects) and 6.6 on the moment magnitude scale
(Mw Scale; measures indirect and reflected effects), and a maximum
intensity of XI (Extreme) on the Mercalli Intensity Scale (MM,
MMI, or MCS Scale; measures intensity of shaking). The event was
one in a series that affected Los Angeles county in the late 20th
century. Damage was locally severe in the northern San Fernando
Valley and surface faulting was extensive to the south of the
epicenter in the mountains, as well as urban settings along city
streets and neighborhoods. Uplift and other effects affected
private homes and businesses. The event affected a number of
health-care facilities in Sylmar, San Fernando, and other densely
populated areas north of central Los Angeles. The Olive View
Medical Center and Veterans Hospital both experienced very heavy
damage, and buildings collapsed at both sites, causing the
majority of deaths that occurred. The buildings at both facilities
were constructed with mixed styles, but engineers were unable to
thoroughly study the buildings' responses because they were not
outfitted with instruments for recording strong ground motion, and
this prompted the Veterans Administration to later install
seismometers at its high-risk sites. Other sites throughout the
Los Angeles area had been instrumented as a result of local
ordinances, and an unprecedented amount of strong motion data was
recorded, more so than any other event up until that time. The
success in this area spurred the initiation of California's Strong
Motion Instrumentation Program. Transportation around the Los
Angeles area was severely afflicted with roadway failures and the
partial collapse of several major freeway interchanges. The near
total failure of the Lower Van Norman Dam resulted in the
evacuation of tens of thousands of downstream residents, though an
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV
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Today, February 9, 2026
February 9: Chocolate Day (India): --
Celebrated as a part of the Valentine's Week celebrations in
India. On this day, loved ones gift each other chocolates and hope
that their relationship always remains sweet. Chocolates are some
of the most well-loved delicacies. It has enjoyed unwavering
popularity. Chocolates can be consumed as a drink, an edible bar,
in desserts, or even as a flavoring. Chocolates are a favorite
among children and adults alike. Chocolate Day is celebrated in
some form or the other throughout the year but this day is a
celebration of chocolates being used as gifts between lovers. The
history of chocolate consumption goes back around 2,500 years. The
Aztecs had recently discovered liquid chocolate and believed that
the god of wisdom, Quetzalcoatl, had blessed them with it. Cocoa
seeds were considered so valuable that they were even used as a
form of currency. Back in those days, flavorings in chocolate were
scarce and it was consumed as a bitter drink. Chocolates would in
fact be sugar-free until the 16th century when Europeans started
adding sugar to them. This made chocolate more palatable and
quickly caught on in the markets. It became one of many
households' favorite treats. Many popular present-day chocolate
companies started their operations in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Cadbury was founded in England in 1868 and today it is
one of the leading chocolate brands. 25 years later Milton S
Hershey started Hershey's which is now one of the biggest and
best-known chocolate brands in the world. Nestle began its
operations in the 1860s and has branched out to become one of the
largest food conglomerates in the world. What started off as a
drink took shape into a currency and has today become one of the
biggest industries that not only generates incomes and employees
hundreds of thousands of people across the world but produces food
items that are loved by so many of us! Chocolate Day also
celebrates the incredible versatility of this food ingredient. On
Chocolate Day lovers give each other heart-shaped chocolates as a
symbol of love. Gifting chocolates to loved ones removes all the
tensions and sorrows and improves the sweetness of the
relationship.
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9: National Toothache Day: -- An
annual not-so-subtle reminder of the importance of dental care.
Also known as odontalgia, a toothache is pain generating from a
tooth or multiple teeth. A toothache can make us miserable, making
it difficult to eat, sleep, or sometimes even talk. It's safe to
say, toothaches are never pleasant and not really something to
celebrate. We can, however, be aware of how to prevent toothaches.
Routine dental care is an essential first step. Avoiding sugary
foods and acidic drinks and daily brushing and flossing are
important, too. Even so, we can still develop cavities, have
accidents that break or chip at a tooth, or find ourselves with an
infection. Teeth can also become sensitive to heat or cold.
Treating a toothache in the short term may be simply handled by
over-the-counter treatments, but seeing a dentist may still be
required to resolve the issue. Some toothaches are so severe as to
require emergency intervention, thus treating the early signs of a
mild toothache is important. So be proactive! Take care of your
dental hygiene every day by brushing, flossing and avoiding too
many sweets. Eat lots of fresh, crunchy vegetables. Schedule a
dentist appointment. Discover home remedies until you can see the
dentist. And smile while you use #NationalToothacheDay to post on
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9: National Read In The Bathtub
Day: -- Reading a book in a warm bath guarantees a calm feeling of
relief as the literature therapeutically works its magic. You
don't have to worry about what noises are out there or any
disturbances while you're in the bath. You just get to focus on
what you're reading for as long as you want. The relaxation and
scented bath would grant you an unforgettable experience! The
origins of reading in the bath possibly originated from the Roman
Empire around 500 B.C. The Romans loved their baths, and they were
the first to thoroughly embrace the culture of bathing. Those who
owned the bathing facilities usually decorated the rooms as a mini
or full library filled with scrolls. It was a way of fitting every
luxury into one setting, possibly to save expenses. Following the
collapse of the Roman Empire, sanitation and bathing disappeared
subsequently in the Dark Ages. People then went back to bathing in
rivers or lakes and using perfume as a substitute. However, the
tradition reemerged somehow and was adopted to this date. John
Michael Kohler, Jacob Vollrath, and one other man started up a
factory in 1873. The company focused solely on manufacturing iron
and steel products but later on changed its approach when Kohler
invented the first modern bathtub. In 1883, Kohler used a
cast-iron horse trough covered in enamel and added four decorative
legs for the bathtub to stand. In 1928, The Crane Company
introduced various colorful bathroom features that are prominent
in our bathrooms today. The structure of the bathtub makes it a
great place to lay back and enjoy a good book. However, the
biggest con of reading in the bath is that water and paper are not
friends. So reading in the bathtub is a somewhat risky routine.
Because it's unpredictable and you don't know when your favorite
book might just splat into the water. To slightly avoid this use a
bath tray or caddy, to hold the book or other items like your
phone, tablet, and preferred drink. Besides paper, there is also
online reading. Since the invention of technological devices,
there has been a massive increase in bathroom reading. But
electrical devices can be dangerous in the bathroom if not used
appropriately. To make a DIY waterproof phone case, just put your
phone or tablet inside of a plastic zipper bag and you'll still be
able to scroll through the pages as you read. You can also buy
waterproof cases online or at most electronic stores.
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: Bill
Haley, American pioneer rock and roll and rockabilly singer,
songwriter and guitarist (b. July 6, 1925) #dies at his home in
Harlingen, Texas on February 9, 1981, aged 55. He was discovered
lying motionless on his bed by a friend who had stopped by to
visit him. The friend immediately called the police and Haley was
pronounced dead at the scene. Haley's death certificate gave
"natural causes, most likely a heart attack" as being
the cause. Following a small funeral service attended by 75
people, Haley's remains were cremated in Brownsville, Texas, and
the ashes given to his widow Martha Valaesco. Bill Haley was born
William John Clifton Haley in Highland Park, Michigan. He is
credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the
early 1950s with his group Bill Haley and His Comets and
million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock",
"See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and
Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and
"Razzle Dazzle". He has sold over 25 million records
worldwide. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. ========= February 9, 1986: Halley's Comet last
appeared in the inner Solar System.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1941: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In The
Netherlands: -- The Cafe Alcazar is raided and vandalized when
members of the Dutch Nazi party, the NSB, assisted by German
soldiers, force their way into this cafe-cabaret on Thorbeckeplein
because Jewish artists were still performing there, in particular
jazz trumpeter Clara de Vries. This incident led to a brawl in
which 23 people were injured., and ultimately led to riots on
February 11 that practically began the Amsterdam Ghetto. A law had
been passed forbidding all Jewish musicians and artists to perform
in Non Jewish clubs. Clara was a well accomplished Jazz
trumpetist, and by all accounts an exceptionally talented one.
Louis Armstrong once said of her "That Louis de Vries, he had
a sister Clara with a ladies-band. Oh boy, she could play that
horn!" Her brother Louis, another Trumpetist, was often
referred to as the Dutch Louis Armstrong. Clara was murdered in
Auschwitz on October 22,1942. The February 9 incident led to the
riots of February 11 in which the Dutch Nazi Hendrik Koot was
severely injured and led to his death a few days later on February
14, 1941. The reaction to his death was immediate. The Jewish
neighborhood was sealed off by Nazi authorities, technically
beginning the Amsterdam ghetto,[and a Judenrat was put in place.
Protests broke out, and the raid on an ice cream parlor, a known
hangout for a Jewish knokploeg, saw Nazi police forces being
attacked in retaliation, possibly sprayed with acid. The Nazis
decided to round up a large number of Jewish men, and that gave
the local Communist resistance groups an opportunity to agitate
the population enough to start a strike, and widespread strikes
started the following Tuesday, 25 February. Dutch police response
was moderate, and the Nazi authorities were not pleased . Troops
were sent in to break the strike, and posters explaining the death
of Koot were put up in an attempt to justify military action. Cafe
Alcazar, however, had also been a hiding places for 14 Jewish
people. In 1983, during the renovation of a nightclub on the
Thorbeckeplein, a film that had been made there forty years ago
surfaced. The film wascalled Duikjoodbasis,(Jewish hiding place)
and the screenplay was written by the then thirteen-year-old Henry
Robinski. It was made with and by the fourteen Jews who were in
hiding above the nightclub Alcazar until May 28, 1943. Hendrik
Swaab, who conceived the idea for the film in 1943, said in 1983
in the NIW(New Israeli Weekly) that the reason for making the film
was boredom. Making a film would give the people in hiding some
distraction. The film was shot between July 1942 and April 1943
and was shot by a resistance member who had worked for a film
company before the war. Now Duikjoodbasis is unique: no other film
recordings are known that were made at a hiding place.
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1942: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): -- The Joint Chiefs Of Staff of the United States
War Department hold their first formal meeting to coordinate U.S.
military operations between the War and Navy Departments. The
Joint Chiefs at the time were: Adm. Ernest J. King, commander in
chief, U.S. Fleet and chief of naval operations; Gen. George C.
Marshall, Chief Of Staff of the U.S. Army; Adm. William D. Leahy,
Chief Of Staff to the commander in chief of the Army and Navy; and
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces. In order to
help conserve energy resources, year-round Daylight saving time is
re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Know
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1199: #DOTD: Minamoto No
Yoritomo, founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate
and of Japan, ruling from 1192 until 1199, the first ruling shogun
in the history of Japan, husband of Hojo Masako, who acted as
Shikken (regent) after his death (b. May 9, 1147) dies aged 51 in
Kamakura, Kamakura Shogunate, Japan. He is buried at The tomb Of
Minamoto No Yoritomo, a monument in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan,
located some hundred meters north of the site where the palace
called Okura Bakufu, seat of Minamoto Mo Yoritomo's government,
once stood. Minamoto No Yoritomo was born with the childhood name
Oniwakamaru in Atsuta, Owari Province, Japan, the third son of
Minamoto no Yoshitomo, heir of the Minamoto (Seiwa Genji) clan,
and his official wife, Yura-Gozen, daughter of Fujiwara no
Suenori, High Priest of Atsuta Shrine and a member of the powerful
Fujiwara clan. Minamoto No Yoritomo belonged to Seiwa Genji's
prestigious Kawachi Genji family. After successfully maneuvering
himself to the position of rightful heir of the Minamoto clan, he
led his clan against the Taira from his capital in Kamakura,
beginning the Genpei War in 1180. After five years of civil war,
the Minamoto clan finally defeated the Taira in the Battle of
Dan-no-ura in 1185. Yoritomo established the supremacy of the
samurai caste and the first shogunate (bakufu) which was to be
centered around Kamakura, thus beginning the feudal age in Japan,
which lasted until the 17th century. Minamoto No Yoritomo was
ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1199 and left his home. He received
the Buddhist name Bukoshogendaizenmon (Japanese: "All
Questions On Contemporary Books") two days before he died.
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1996: #DOTD: Adolf Galland,
German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the
Second World War in Europe (b. March 19, 1912) #dies at 1:15 in
the morning of a Friday in Oberwinter, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Germany. His body was buried at the Cementerio in Oberwinter on
February 21. A memorial service was held on March 31 at the St.
Laurentius Church in Auerbach, a town in the Vogtlandkreis,
Saxony, Germany. Adolf Galland flew 705 combat missions, and
fought on the Western Front and in the Defence of the Reich
(Reichsverteidigung) aerial campaign. On four occasions, he
survived being shot down, and he was credited with 104 aerial
victories, all of them against the Western Allies. Galland, who
was born in Westerholt, Westphalia became a glider pilot in 1929
before he joined Lufthansa. In 1932, he graduated as a pilot at
the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule (German Commercial Flyers'
School) in Braunschweig before applying to join the Reichswehr of
the Weimar Republic later in the year. Galland's application was
accepted, but he never took up the offer. In February 1934, he was
transferred to the Luftwaffe. In 1937, during the Spanish Civil
War, he volunteered for the Condor Legion and flew ground attack
missions in support of the Nationalists under Francisco Franco.
After finishing his tour in 1938 Galland was employed in the Air
Ministry writing doctrinal and technical manuals about his
experiences as a ground-attack pilot. During this period Galland
served as an instructor for ground-attack units. During the German
Invasion Of Poland in September 1939, he again flew ground attack
missions. In early 1940, Galland managed to persuade his superiors
to allow him to become a fighter pilot. Galland flew Messerschmitt
Bf 109s during the Battle Of France and the Battle Of Britain. By
the end of 1940, his tally of victories had reached 57. In 1941,
Galland stayed in France and fought the Royal Air Force (RAF) over
the English Channel and Northern France. By November 1941, his
tally had increased to 96, by which time he had earned the
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. In
November 1941, Werner Molders, who commanded the German Fighter
Force as the General der Jagdflieger, was killed in a flying
accident and Galland succeeded him, staying in the position until
January 1945. As General der Jagdflieger, Galland was forbidden to
fly combat missions. In late January and early February 1942,
Galland first planned and then commanded the Luftwaffe's air cover
for the Kriegsmarine Operation Cerberus, which was a major
success. It earned him the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with
Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Over the ensuing years, Galland's
disagreements with Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering about how best
to combat the Allied Air Forces bombing of Germany caused their
relationship to deteriorate. The Luftwaffe fighter force was under
severe pressure by 1944, and Galland was blamed by Goering for the
failure to prevent the Allied strategic bombing of Germany in
daylight. The relationship collapsed altogether in early January
1945, when Galland was relieved of his command because of his
constant criticism of the Luftwaffe leadership. Galland was then
put under house arrest following the so-called Fighter Pilots'
Revolt, an insurrection of a group of high-ranking Luftwaffe
pilots in which senior fighter pilots threatened suicide over
Goering's conduct of the air war and Hitler's orders not to use
the Me-262 jet as a fighter. As a result of the Figher Pilots
Revolt Incident, Galland returned to operational flying and was
permitted to form a jet fighter unit in March 1945, which he
called Jagdverband 44. He flew missions over Germany until the end
of the war in May. After the war, Galland was employed by
Argentina's Government and acted as a consultant to the Argentine
Air Force. Later, he returned to Germany and managed his own
business. Galland also became friends with many former enemies,
such as RAF aces Robert Stanford Tuck and Douglas Bader.
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1906: #DOTD: #RIP: Paul
Laurence Dunbar, African American poet, novelist, and short story
writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (b. June 27,
1872) #dies of tuberculosis in Dayton, Ohio at the age of 33. He
is interred in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. Paul Laurence
Dunbar was born at 311 Howard Street in Dayton, Ohio to parents
who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War.
Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He
published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper,
and served as president of his high school's literary society.
Dunbar's popularity increased rapidly after his work was praised
by William Dean Howells, a leading editor associated with Harper's
Weekly. Dunbar became one of the first African American writers to
establish an international reputation. In addition to his poems,
short stories, and novels, he also wrote the lyrics for the
musical comedy In Dahomey (1903), the first all-African American
musical produced on Broadway in New York. The musical later toured
in the United States and the United Kingdom. Suffering from
tuberculosis, which then had no cure, Dunbar died in Dayton, Ohio,
at the age of 33. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his
lifetime was written in the "Negro dialect" associated
with the antebellum South, though he also used the Midwestern
regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley. Dunbar also wrote in
conventional English in other poetry and novels and is considered
the first important African American sonnet writer. Since the late
20th century, scholars have become more interested in these other
works.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Fyodor
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1881: #DOTD: #RIP: Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and
philosopher (b. November 11, 1821) #dies of a pulmonary
hemorrhages (hemorrhages of the lung). His last words to his wife
Anna were: "Remember, Anya, I have always loved you
passionately and have never been unfaithful to you ever, even in
my thoughts!" He is interred in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the
Alexander Nevsky Convent,[116] near his favourite poets, Nikolay
Karamzin and Vasily Zhukovsky. It is unclear how many attended his
funeral. According to one reporter, more than 100,000 mourners
were present, while others describe attendance between 40,000 and
50,000. His tombstone is inscribed with lines from the New
Testament: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of
wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it
dies, it bringeth forth much fruit." Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoyevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian
novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and
philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology
in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of
19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of realistic
philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works
include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons
(1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Dostoyevsky's oeuvre
consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories and
numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the
greatest psychologists in world literature. His 1864 novella Notes
from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of
existentialist literature. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a
literary group that discussed banned books critical of "Tsarist
Russia", he was sentenced to death but the sentence was
commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian
prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service
in exile. In the following years, Dostoyevsky worked as a
journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own
and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began
to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling
addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to
beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely
read and highly regarded Russian writers. His books have been
translated into more than 170 languages. Dostoyevsky was
influenced by a wide variety of philosophers and authors including
Pushkin, Gogol, Augustine, Shakespeare, Dickens, Balzac,
Lermontov, Hugo, Poe, Plato, Cervantes, Herzen, Kant, Belinsky,
Hegel, Schiller, Solovyov, Bakunin, Sand, Hoffmann, and
Mickiewicz. His writings were widely read both within and beyond
his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later
writers including Russians like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton
Chekhov as well as philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and
Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1984: #DOTD: #RIP: Yuri
Andropov, Russian lawyer,Soviet politician and the fourth General
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. June 15,
1914) #dies at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital; in February
1983, Andropov suffered total kidney failure in August 1983, and
he was admitteed there, at it was there that he spent the rest of
his life. In late January 1984, Andropov's health deteriorated
sharply and due to growing toxicity in his blood, he had periods
of failing consciousness. He died on 9 February 1984 at 16:50,
aged 69. Few of the top Soviet leaders learned of his death on
that day. According to the Soviet post-mortem medical report,
Andropov suffered from several medical conditions: interstitial
nephritis, nephrosclerosis, residual hypertension and diabetes,
worsened by chronic kidney deficiency. A four-day period of
mourning across the USSR was announced. Syria declared seven days
of mourning; Cuba declared four days of mourning; India declared
three days of mourning; Bulgaria, North Korea and Zimbabwe
declared two days of mourning; Czechoslovakia and Costa Rica
declared one day of mourning. Andropov had a state funeral in Red
Square, in a service attended by numerous foreign leaders, such as
U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush, British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Italian
President Sandro Pertini, East German First Secretary Erich
Honecker, Polish First Secretary Wojciech Jaruzelski, Indian Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi, Cuban President Fidel Castro, and Irish
President Patrick Hillery. Eulogists were Chernenko, Ustinov,
Gromyko, Georgi Markov (head of the Union of Soviet Writers), and
Ivan Senkin (First Secretary of the Karelian Regional Committee of
the CPSU).] Andropov was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, in
one of the 12 tombs between the Lenin Mausoleum and the Kremlin
wall. Andropov was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, who seemed
to mirror Andropov's tenure. Chernenko had already been afflicted
with severe health problems when he ascended to the USSR's top
spot, and served even less time in office (13 months). Like
Andropov, Chernenko spent much of his time hospitalized, and also
died in office, in March 1985. Chernenko was succeeded by Mikhail
Gorbachev, who implemented perestroika and glasnost policies to
reform the Soviet Union politically and economically. On December
26, 1991, the USSR was dissolved. Following the 18-year rule of
the late Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov served in
the post for only 15 months, from November 1982 until his own
death in February 1984. Earlier in his career, Andropov served as
the Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, during which
time he was involved in the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian
Uprising, and then Chairman of the KGB from 1967 until 1982.
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1991: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The
Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations,
The Fall Of Communism): Baltic States Under Soviet Rule: The
Singing Revolution: The 1991 Lithuanian Independence Referendum:
-- Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet
Union. The referendum vote was held eleven months after
independence from the Soviet Union had been declared on March 11,
1990. Just over 93% of those voting voted in favour of
independence, while the number of eligible voters voting "yes"
was 76.5%, far exceeding the threshold of 50%. Independence was
subsequently achieved in August 1991, when Lithuania declared
complete and immediate independence after the failed 1991 Soviet
Coup D'etat of August 19-22, 1991. Recognition of the independence
of the Republic Of Lithuania spread throughout the world in the
immediate aftermath of the coup, and Lithuania was re-recognized
by the United States on September 2, 1991, with the the Soviet
Union formally recognizing its independence on September 6, 1991.
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1969: #DOTD: #RIP: Gabby
Hayes, American actor, particularly in cowby and wild west films
(b. May 7, 1885) #dies at Saint Joseph Hospital in Burbank,
California of cardiovascular disease at the age of 83. He is
interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills
Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles,
California. Gabby Hayes was born George Francis Hayes in
Stannards, New York, a hamlet just outside Wellsville, New York
(Hayes always gave Wellsville as his birthplace, but legally he
was born in Stannards). Gabby Hayes' career began as something of
a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for
his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the
bewhiskered, cantankerous, woman-hating, but ever-loyal and brave
comic sidekick of the cowboy stars Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers
and John Wayne.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lum And
Abner Old Time Radio Series MP3 Set DVD, Download, USB Stick
Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1902: #BOTD: #HBD! Chester
Lauck, known as Chet Lauck, American comedian in radio and film
best known for his portrayal of Lum Edwards on the rural radio
comedy series Lum and Abner (d. February 21, 1980) is #born
Chester Lauck in Alleene, Arkansas. Raised in Mena, Arkansas, he
graduated from Mena High School in 1920. In Mena, Chet met his
future comedy partner Norris Goff. Though both began as blackface
comics, they soon found success on local station KTHS with a
recurring hillbilly skit, leading to a network series, recorded in
Chicago, Illinois, in 1931. In addition to starring as storekeeper
Lum (full name Columbus Edwards, with surname usually pronounced
"Eddards"), Lauck also played several other recurring
characters, including Cedric Weehunt, Grandpappy Spears, and Snake
Hogan. He reprised his radio role, opposite Goff, in seven motion
pictures between 1940 and 1956. Lauck adopted grey hair and a
moustache on-camera, to better match the picture most audiences
would have of his radio character. In his later years, Lauck
recorded new introductions for commercial cassette releases of the
series and for syndication. For a brief time during the 1950s he
bought and upgraded a ranch fifteen miles west of Las Vegas, later
bought by Howard Hughes. It was turned into Spring Mountain Ranch
State Park. On August 27, 1957, he appeared as a guest challenger
on To Tell the Truth. He died on February 21, 1980, aged 78, and
was buried in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Chester Lauck is a member of
the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Great McGinty 1940 Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus DVD, Download, USB
Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Brian
Donlevy, American actor noted for playing dangerous tough guys
from the 1930s to the 1960s (d. April 6, 1972) is #born Waldo
Brian Donlevy in Cleveland, Ohio. Brian Donlevy usually appeared
in supporting roles. Among his best-known films are Beau Geste
(1939) and The Great McGinty (1940). For his role as Sergeant
Markoff in Beau Geste, he was nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor. Donlevy starred as US special agent Steve
Mitchell in the radio/TV series Dangerous Assignment. Mitchell
received assignments to exotic locales involving international
intrigue from the Commissioner played by Herbert Butterfield.
Brian Donlevy died of throat cancer at the Motion Picture Country
Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, aged 71. His
remains were cremated, and his ashes were scattered over Santa
Monica Bay. His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United
Kingdom stated that "any consideration of the American 'film
noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD Woody
Woodbury, American comedian, actor, television personality and
talk show host, U.S. Marine Corps flight instructor in World War
II and Korean War, is #born Robert Dennis Woodbury in Saint Paul,
Minnesota. He is known for his best-selling comedy albums of
risque stories, most of which were released in the early 1960s. He
was among the first standup comedians to receive a gold record. In
1962, Woodbury replaced Johnny Carson as host of the game show Who
Do You Trust? when Carson left to succeed Jack Paar in helming The
Tonight Show, a job for which Woodbury had also been competing.
Woodbury's most substantial film role was that of "Uncle
Woody" in 1964's For Those Who Think Young (with James
Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Tina Louise and Paul Lynde). Among
Woodbury's other film appearances: Safe at Home! (with Mickey
Mantle and Roger Maris, 1962); Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (TV
movie with Fred MacMurray and Donna Mills, 1975); Super Fuzz (with
Ernest Borgnine, 1981); and Hardly Working (with Jerry Lewis,
1981). In the mid to late 1960s, Woodbury often performed at
Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, touring nationally and performing in
charity golf tournaments with Bob Hope, Jcakie Gleason, and
others. The Woody Woodbury Show was on television from 1967 to
1968, a 90-minute talk/variety show which aired weekday afternoons
in most markets.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Marc
London: The President Strikes Back JFK Comedy Album MP3 DL USB
Today, February 9, 2026
February 9, 2010: #DOTD: #RIP: Marc
London, American actor, comedian, comedy writer and screenwriter
(b. September 30, 1927) #dies in Hyannis, Massachusetts at the age
of 82. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. He was born
Albert Francis Ruby Jr in Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for
his comedy album The President Strikes Back (1962) and his
television work on Get Smart (1965), Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
(1967) and The Muppet Show (1976).
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old
Time Radio Music MP3 MegaSet DVD, Audio Download, USB Stick
Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1966: #DOTD: #RIP: Sophie
Tucker, Ukrainian-born Russian-American singer, comedian, actress,
and radio personality (b. January 13, 1886) #dies of lung cancer
and kidney failure, aged 80, in her Park Avenue, Manhattan
apartment. She continued working until her death, playing shows at
the Latin Quarter just weeks before. She is buried in Emanuel
Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut.. Sophie Tucker was born
Sofya Kalish to a Jewish family in Tulchyn, Podolia Governorate,
Russian Empire, now Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. Known for her
powerful delivery of comical and risque songs, she was one of the
most popular entertainers in America during the first half of the
20th century. She was widely known by the superlative nickname
"The Last Of The Red Hot Mamas".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Medium
Cool (1969) News Media & The 1968 DNC DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Marianna
Hill, American actress and beauty, known for her starring roles in
Medium Cool (1969), the Western films El Condor (1970), High
Plains Drifter (1973), the cult horror film Messiah of Evil, The
Godfather Part II (1974) as well as many roles on television
series in the 1960s and 1970s such as Batman, Star Trek and The
Wild Wild West, is #born Marianna Schwarzkopf in Santa Barbara,
California to architect Frank Schwarzkopf and writer Mary
Hawthorne Hill, who worked as a script doctor. United States Army
General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was her second cousin. Hill's
initial acting experience came when she was an apprentice at the
Laguna Playhouse. She then worked three summers at the La Jolla
Playhouse, and later gained more experience at the Neighborhood
Playhouse School of the Theatre. She was a life member of The
Actors Studio as of January 1980. She adopted her mother's surname
("Hill") as her professional surname. She appeared in
more than 70 films and television episodes. Her film debut came in
Married Too Young (1962). She played Gabrielle in the Howard Hawks
film, Red Line 7000 (1965) and featured in the Elvis Presley film
Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966); the Haskell Wexler political film
Medium Cool (1969); the western El Condor (1970); the Clint
Eastwood film High Plains Drifter (1973) as Callie Travers; the
cult classic horror-thriller film The Baby (1973); and in The
Godfather Part II (1974) as Deanna Dunn-Corleone, Fredo Corleone's
hard-drinking wife. Hill guest-starred in several 1960s sitcoms,
including My Three Sons, Hogan's Heroes and Love, American Style,
as well as in the original Star Trek series ("Dagger of the
Mind", 1966, as Dr. Helen Noel) and Perry Mason ("The
Case of the Greek Goddess", 1963, as Theba). She
guest-starred in The High Chaparral; Bonanza; Death Valley Days;
Gunsmoke; The Wild Wild West; Dr. Kildare; The F.B.I.; Quincy,
M.E.; S.W.A.T.; Kung Fu; The Outer Limits; Hawaii Five-O, Mannix;
Batman; Daniel Boone; The Tall Man; Mission: Impossible; and the
first pilot movie for Harry O. Her last television appearance was
in a 1984 episode of Remington Steele. After moving to New York to
teach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Hill moved to
England in 1988 to teach at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London.
She remained there until its closure in 2001.Hill continued to
teach at the Method Studio in London, and made an appearance in
the 2005 British film Coma Girl: The State of Grace, a part she
got through the association of one of her students with the film's
writer and director Dina Jacobsen. Her last American film was
Chief Zabu, which was filmed on the campus of Bard College in New
York in 1986. The film was not released until 2016. In a rare
public appearance, Hill attended the premier of the movie at the
2016 Fort Lauderdale Film Festival. Hill lives in the UK. She
teaches acting privately and at acting workshops. She was
scheduled to make an appearance at the Destination Star Trek
Germany convention in June 2021; however, the convention was
postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Frank
Sinatra: The Voice Of Our Time DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 1945: #BOTD: Mia Farrow,
American actress and beauty, is born Maria de Lourdes Villiers
Farrow in Los Angeles, California, the third child and eldest
daughter of Australian film director John Farrow and his second
wife, the Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She first gained
notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap
opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her
subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. An early film
role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968), saw
her nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress. She went on to appear in several films throughout the
1970s, such as Follow Me! (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), and
Death on the Nile (1978). Her younger sister is Prudence Farrow.
Farrow was in a relationship with actor-director Woody Allen from
1980 to 1992 and appeared in thirteen of his fourteen films over
that period, beginning with A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).
She received numerous critical accolades for her performances in
several Allen films, including Golden Globe Award nominations for
Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), and
Alice (1990). She also acted in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986),
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Husbands and Wives (1992). In
1992, Farrow publicly accused Allen of sexually abusing their
adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow. Allen was never charged with a
crime and has vigorously denied the allegation. These claims
received significant renewed public attention in 2013 after Dylan
recounted the alleged assault in an interview that year; however
her brother, family therapist Moses Farrow, has defended his
father against these sexual abuse allegations. In one People
magazine interview in February 2014, Moses Farrow said "I
don't know if my sister really believes she was molested or is
trying to please her mother. Pleasing my mother was very powerful
motivation because to be on her wrong side was horrible." In
that same interview, he described Mia Farrow as "vengeful"
and his childhood being raised by her as "horrifying",
claiming that she was physically abusive toward him. (In 2018,
Farrow published a blog called "A Son Speaks Out," in
which he argued for Allen's innocence, accused Mia Farrow of
abuse, and offered a different version of his childhood from that
given by some of his siblings. In a December 2020 interview with
The Guardian, Farrow said he would be happy to take his adopted
father's surname.) Since the 2000s, Farrow has made occasional
appearances on television, including a recurring role on Third
Watch (2001-2003). She has also had supporting parts in such films
as The Omen (2006), Be Kind Rewind (2008), and Dark Horse (2011)
as well as the Netflix series The Watcher (2022). Farrow is also
known for her extensive work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She
is involved in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the
Central African Republic. In 2008, Time magazine named her one of
the most influential people in the world.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Monarchy In The UK: British Royal History MP4 Video Download DVD
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Today, February 9, 2026February 9, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Princess
Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO, CD (b. August 21, 1930)
#dies in London on 9 February 2002, after suffering a fourth and
final stroke at the age of 71. Her health had gradually
deteriorated in the final two decades of her life; she was a heavy
smoker for most of her adult life, and had a lung operation in
1985, a bout of pneumonia in 1993, and at least three strokes
between 1998 and 2001. She is buried at St. George's Chapel in
Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England.
Princess Margaret was born Margaret Rose Windsor at Glamis Castle
in Scotland, her mother's ancestral home, and was affectionately
known as Margot within the royal family. She was the first member
of the royal family in direct line of succession to be born in
Scotland since the 1600s. She was the younger daughter of King
George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the only sibling of Queen
Elizabeth II. Margaret spent much of her childhood with her
parents and sister. Her life changed dramatically at the age of
six when her paternal uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated to marry
divorcee Wallis Simpson. Margaret's father became king and her
sister became heir presumptive, with Margaret second in line to
the throne. Her position in the line of succession diminished over
the following decades as Elizabeth's own children and
grandchildren were born. During the Second World War the two
sisters stayed at Windsor Castle despite suggestions to evacuate
them to Canada. During the war years, Margaret was considered too
young to perform any official duties, and instead continued her
education, being nine years old when the war broke out and turning
15 just after hostilities ended. From the 1950s onwards, Margaret
became one of the world's most celebrated socialites, famed for
her glamorous lifestyle and reputed romances. Most famously, she
fell in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend as a young adult in
the early 1950s. In 1952, her father died, her sister became queen
and Townsend divorced his wife, Rosemary. He proposed to Margaret
early the following year. Many in the government believed that he
would be an unsuitable husband for the Queen's 22-year-old sister,
and the Church of England refused to countenance marriage to a
divorced man. Margaret eventually abandoned her plans with
Townsend and married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960;
the Queen made him Earl of Snowdon. The couple had two children,
David and Sarah, before divorcing in 1978. Margaret never
remarried. Margaret was a controversial member of the British
royal family. Her divorce received much negative publicity, and
her private life was for many years the subject of intense
speculation by media and royal-watchers. #PrincessMargaret
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