February 9

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[edit] Events

• 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1950 - Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States State Department of being filled with Communists.
• 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.

[edit] Births

• 1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841)
• 1902 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, NSDAP women's leader (d. 1999)

[edit] Deaths

• 1857 - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)