Today In History
Today is Friday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2018. There are 325 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1943: The World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied victory over Japanese forces.
ON THIS DATE
› 1825: The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
› 1861: Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America at a congress held in Montgomery, Alabama.
› 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. Daylight-saving “War Time” went into effect in the United States, with clocks moved one hour forward.
› 1964: The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York on CBS.
› 1971: The crew of Apollo 14 returned to Earth after man’s third landing on the moon.
› 1991: Voters in Lithuania overwhelmingly endorsed independence from the Soviet Union in a nonbinding plebiscite.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Television journalist Roger Mudd is 90. Actress Janet Suzman is
79. Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee is
78. Actress-politician Sheila James Kuehl (TV: “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”) is 77. Actress Mia Farrow is 73. Former Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., is 72. Singer Joe Ely is 71. Actress Judith Light is 69. Rhythm and blues musician Dennis “DT” Thomas (Kool & the Gang) is 67. Actor Charles Shaughnessy is
63. Actor Ed Amatrudo is
62. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is 61. Jazz musician Steve Wilson is
57. Country singer Travis Tritt is 55. Actress Julie Warner is 53. Country singer Danni Leigh is 48. Actress Sharon Case is 47. Actor Jason George is 46. Actress Amber Valletta is
44. Actress Ziyi Zhang is
39. Actor Tom Hiddleston is 37. Actor David Gallagher is 33. Actor Michael B. Jordan is 31. Actress Rose Leslie is 31. Actress Marina Malota is 30. Actress Camille Winbush is 28. Actor Jimmy Bennett is 22. Actor Evan Roe (TV: “Madam Secretary”) is 18.