Today in History - History - February 9th

1986Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic

1997Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am

1825House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president

1980Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8 3-pointers in a game

2006Al Michaels joins NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast with Johh Madden

1947Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia

1950Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists

1943FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

1807French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon

1985Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks

1970Glenn McGrath, cricketer (NSW & Australian fast bowler 1993-)

1944Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)

1773William Henry Harrison, Charles City Virginia, 9th President of the United States (March 4-April 4, 1841)

1943Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate

1989NBA power forward Charles Barkley (26) weds legal aide Maureen Blumhardt in Elkton, Maryland

1991Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (42) weds equestrian Madeleine Gurdon (28) in Westminster, London

1864Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Clift Bacon

1957Actor Richard Harris (26) weds socialite Elizabeth Rees (20)

1906Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio

1881Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59