On February 9th in History
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On February 9th in 1776 - Joseph Bloomfield became captain of the third New Jersey Regiment of Foot in the Continental Army. He later became Governor of New Jersey.
On February 9th in 1778 - Rhode Island became the fourth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
On February 9th in 1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President. No candidate had received a majority of electoral votes.
On February 9th in 1861 - The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis as its president. Davis was informed the next day.
On February 9th in 1864 - Union General George Armstrong Custer and Elizabeth Bacon were married in Monroe, Michigan. Custer was killed on June 25, 1876, by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
On February 9th in 1870 - The United States Weather Bureau was authorized by Congress. The bureau is officially known as the National Weather Service (NWS).
On February 9th in 1884 - Thomas Edison and Patrick Kenny executed a patent application for a chemical recording stock quotation telegraph (U.S. Pat. 314,115).
On February 9th in 1885 - The first Japanese arrived in Hawaii.
On February 9th in 1886 US President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
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