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What Happened on February 9th?
1773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States, was born.
1832 The city of Jacksonville, Florida, was chartered.
1870 The United States Weather Service was established.
Pope Leo XPope Leo X Giovanni de Medici was destined for the Church from a very early age, and was made a Cardinal at the age of 14. As Pope, he is best remembered for instituting a number of practices that led Martin Luther to criticize the Church, which in turn led to the Protestant Reformation.
   
John Jacob AstorJohn Jacob Astor started in the fur business in 1784, and by 1800 had a net worth of $250,000. In 1811 one of his companies founded what is now Astoria, Oregon, and by the early 1820's he had a total monopoly on fur trade in the United States.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke reluctantly entered politics as a member of Parliament in 1765, but soon became one of the leading figures in the House of Commons. Always ready to speak his mind concerning the major issues of the day, he is today most remembered for his volumes of writings, including Reflections on the Revolution in France.
   
Cherokee Strip Land RunCherokee Strip Land Run On September 16, 1893, more than 115,000 people raced to claim one of 42,000 parcels of land in the largest, most spectacular, and last land run in American history.
The Football FieldThe Football Field is a level area 360 feet long and 160 feet wide.
   
Aryan BrotherhoodThe Aryan Brotherhood is a prison gang that originated at San Quentin Penitentiary in California in 1967. Its original purpose was to provide protection for White prisoners from Black and Hispanic gangs, and was formed in response to a series of racial incidents that had occurred at San Quentin the previous year.
The Articles of ConfederationThe Articles of Confederation went into effect on March 1, 1781, and remained in effect until ratification of the U.S. Constitution. It created a loose confederation of the states with most power vested with the state governments.
   
Tuskegee UniversityTuskegee University was founded as Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881. Now one of the largest predominantly black colleges in the country, it offers a total of 49 degrees in five schools, to a student body of approximately 2,500 undergraduates and 900 postgraduates.
The CommodoresThe Commodores were founded by Lionel Richie, William King, Thomas McClary, Milan Williams, Ronald LaPread and Walter Orange at Tuskegee Institute in 1968. They went on to become the largest selling act for Motown throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
   
Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 1071 Fifth Avenue. It houses a comprehensive collection of European and American conceptual and abstract art from throughout the 20th century.
Dennis HopperDennis Lee Hopper had his first success with Easy Rider in 1969, but did not enjoy it again until Apocalypse Now in 1979. Since then he has been working steadily as an actor and director, as well as a photographer and painter.
   
Rubik's CubeRubik's Cube was invented by a Hungarian professor in 1974, as a mental exercise for his students. The cubic puzzle quickly became a craze in Hungary, then spread across Europe, and by 1980 was the top-selling toy in the United States.
GynecomastiaGynecomastia is an abnormal enlargement of one or both breasts in men. It usually involves only the nipple area and nearby tissue of one breast, but in some cases the whole breast region may be enlarged to such a degree that it takes on the appearance of female breasts.
   
SalukiThe Saluki is one of the oldest dog breeds known to man, appearing in Egyptian tomb paintings dating from 2100 BC. It probably originated with the Bedouins, who used the breed to hunt gazelle and other animals.
Samuel Finley Breese MorseSamuel Finley Breese Morse struggled for many years to gain recognition as a painter, but became better known for the telegraph, which he successfully demonstrated on May 24, 1844.
   
Buffalo SoldiersBuffalo Soldiers On June 28, 1866, an Act of Congress authorized the creation of six regiments of black troops, two of cavalry and four of infantry. The first two regiments were subsequently organized on September 21, 1866, and these are the two regiments that would become known to history as the "Buffalo Soldiers."
John Philip HollandJohn Philip Holland launched his first successful submarine in 1881. The company he founded ultimately became the Electric Boat Company, which has subsequently built the vast majority of the U.S. Navy's submarines, as well as submarines for many other nations.
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