February 9, 2005

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  Today’s Highlights in History
  See a larger version of this front page.		On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces. (Go to article.) On Feb. 9, 1910, Jacques Monod, the French Nobel Prize-winning biologist, was born. Following his death on May 31, 1976, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
  		On February 9, 1878, Harper’s Weekly featured a cartoon about the federal income tax. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On this date in:
  1773	William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, was born in Charles City County, Va.
  1825	The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
  1861	The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president.
  1870	The U.S. Weather Bureau was established.
  1942	The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II.
  1942	Daylight-saving ”war time” went into effect in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward.
  1950	Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists, during a speech in Wheeling, W.Va.
  1964	The Beatles made their first live American TV appearance, on ”The Ed Sullivan Show.”
  1971	The Apollo 14 spacecraft returned to Earth after man’s third landing on the moon.
  1984	Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev.
  1993	NBC News announced it had settled a defamation lawsuit brought by General Motors over the network’s ”inappropriate demonstration” of a fiery pickup truck crash on its “Dateline NBC” program.
  1995	Former Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., died at age 89.
  1999	The Senate began closed-door deliberations in President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.
  2000	Boeing Co. engineers and technical workers began a 40-day strike.
  2001	A U.S. Navy submarine collided with a Japanese fishing boat off the Hawaiian coast, killing nine people aboard the boat.
  2002	Britain’s Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died at age 71.

  
  

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  Current Birthdays

  Carole King turns 63 years old today.

  AP Photo/Steven Senne Singer-songwriter Carole King turns 63 years old today.

  83 Kathryn Grayson Actress 77 Roger Mudd Broadcast journalist 66 Janet Suzman Actress 62 Barbara Lewis Singer 62 Joe Pesci Actor 61 Alice Walker Author 60 Mia Farrow Actress 58 Joe Ely Singer 56 Judith Light Actress (”Who’s the Boss?”) 54 Dennis ”DT”’ Thomas R&B musician (Kool & the Gang) 50 Charles Shaughnessy Actor 42 Travis Tritt Country singer 40 Julie Warner Actress 35 Danni Leigh Country singer 33 Jason George Actor 20 David Gallagher Actor (”7th Heaven”) 17 Marina Malota Actress 15 Camille Winbush Actress (”The Bernie Mac Show”)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Historic Birthdays
  Jacques Monod
  2/9/1910 – 5/31/1976 French Nobel Prize-winning biologist (Go to obit.)
  71	Gasparo Angiolini 2/9/1731 – 2/6/1803 Italian choreographer and composer
  78	Luther Martin 2/9/1748 – 7/10/1826 American lawyer
  68	William Henry Harrison 2/9/1773 – 4/4/1841 9th President of the United States
  72	Samuel Tilden 2/9/1814 – 8/4/1886 American lawyer and governor of New York
  75	Mrs. Patrick Campbell 2/9/1865 – 4/9/1940 English actress
  51	Amy Lowell 2/9/1874 – 5/12/1925 American critic, lecturer and poet
  67	Ronald Colman 2/9/1891 – 5/19/1958 English-born American stage and film actor
  85	Dean Rusk 2/9/1909 – 12/20/1994 American secretary of state under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
  71	Bill Veeck 2/9/1914 – 1/2/1986 American baseball club owner
  41	Brendan Behan 2/9/1923 – 3/20/1964 Irish author and political commentator

  
  
  

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