Today in History - History - February 9th

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

1943FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

1986Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic

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

1947Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia

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)

1807French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon

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

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

1943Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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