February 9

Today in History
• 1499 - France and Venice sign treaty against Milan
• 1537 - Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England
• 1540 - The first recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)
• 1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake for heresy
• 1775 - British Parliament declares Massachusetts colony in rebellion
• 1822 - American Indian Society organizes
• 1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
• 1870 - US Army establishes US National Weather Service


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Chocolate Day
• Giving Hearts Day
• Gwyl Mabsant
• National Bagel and Lox Day
• National Cut the Cord Day
• National Toothache Day
• Pizza Pie Day
• St Maroun Day

Birthdays
• 1404 - Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor
• 1773 - William Henry Harrison, Virginia, Whigs, 9th President
• 1830 - Abdul Aziz, Istanbul Ottoman, 32nd sultan of Turkey
• 1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
• 1854 - Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
• 1857 - Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
• 1909 - Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, 1961 - 1969
• 1921 - B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service