Today in History - History - February 9th

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

1861Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of the Confederate States of America (US Civil War)

1940Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

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

1950Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists

1986Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic

2011Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday album reached number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart.

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

1807French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon

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

1943Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate

1923Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)

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

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

1864Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Clift Bacon

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

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

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

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