This day in history .
Today is Shrove (preceding Ash Wednesday) Tuesday, Feb. 9, the 40th day
of 2016. There are 326 days left in the year. Today's birthdays:
Journalist Roger Mudd is 88. Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee is
76. Singer-songwriter Carole King is 74. Actor Joe Pesci is 73. Author
Alice Walker is 72. Actress Mia Farrow is 71. Former senator Jim Webb,
Democrat of Virginia, is 70. Singer Joe Ely is 69. Actress Judith Light
is 67. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is 59. Country singer Travis
Tritt is 53. In 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy
Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral
votes. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of
the confederacy at a congress in Montgomery, Ala. In 1870, the US
Weather Bureau was established. In 1895, volleyball invented by W.G.
Morgan in Massachusetts. In 1942, the US 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 turned one hour forward. In 1943, the World War II battle
of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied victory
over Japanese forces. In 1964, The Beatles made their first live
American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," broadcast
from New York by CBS. Last year , more than 2 feet of fresh snow piled
up in parts of New England, breaking records set by the Blizzard of
1978.
