On this day: February 9th

On this day: February 9th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: February 9th

Events On this day: February 9th

1825: John Quincy Adams becomes President of the USA.
1861: Jefferson Davis becomes president of the Confederacy.
1895: Volleyball is invented.
1943: During World War II in the Pacific, U.S. troops captured Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands after six months of battle, with 9,000 Japanese and 2,000 Americans killed.
1950: U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy launches his anti-communist campaign. On this day, McCarthy accused the U.S. State Department of being infiltrated by communists.
1959: The world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile becomes operational in the USSR. The Soviet R-7 Semyorka missile had a range of 8800 km (5500 mi).
1960: The Hollywood Walk of Fame begins.
1964: The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1965: First US troops sent to Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
1969: The Boeing 747 flies for the first time. The “Jumbo Jet” was the world’s largest passenger aircraft at the time.
1996: The Irish paramilitary organization IRA ends an 18-month ceasefire by exploding a large bomb in London. The explosion in London’s Canary Wharf left 2 people dead and 39 injured.

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