February 9
NATIONAL Toothache Day [there's a national day for this????]
NATIONAL Bagel Day
NATIONAL Pizza Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1825 No presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824. The US House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the United States.
1861 Tennessee votes against secession
1861 Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America
1942 Daylight Saving Time, called “war time", begins
1964 The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show
1994 Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa
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