February 9, 2024
QUOTE
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
--Thomas Paine
BIRTHDAYS
1737 – Thomas Paine, Philosopher, author, and activist
1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach
1914 – Ernest Tubb, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Joe Pesci, American actor
2005 – Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper
IN MEMORY
1969 – George “Gabby” Hayes, Actor and singer
1981 – Bill Haley, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
1775 – The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as 6th President of the United States in a contingent election.
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is reinstated as a wartime measure to conserve energy.