February 9

1825 - After no presidential candidate won the necessary majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States.

I thought there wasn't such a 'Constitutional crisis' until the 2000 election? This is what Liberals would have us believe...They know they can get away with such stupidity, though, because they've controlled the education system for the past 60-years, and have thoroughly dumbed-down and brainwashed America.

J.Q. Adams may have been our smartest president ever, and he was an excellent foreign diplomat, but he wasn't a very good president...Probably because he was too smart and diplomatic.

That said, the House performed its Constitutional duty - even though Adams didn't win the popular vote, and didn't even have the most electoral votes...It also set the stage for the next president to walk into office on a much less contested vote: Andrew Jackson - the man who did have the most popular and electoral votes in the 1824 Election.

1861 - The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president.

Both were the logical choices to lead the CSA, and both were extremely capable - both would have been excellent choices for these same posts in the U.S. government...Luckily for the Union, most of the rest of the South wasn’t as ‘capable’ as Davis and Stephens, however - or those who were shunned.

1943 - The Battle of Guadalcanal ended with an American victory over Japanese forces:  WWII.

This was a brutal battle, but a fantastic victory for the Americans...The Japanese tide was halted in 1942, but this battle was the first large-scale U.S. offensive in the Pacific, and began a string of enormous losses for the Japanese.

1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a minimal 48-hour work week for those employed in the war industry:  WWII.

How inhumane!  Can you imagine the response modern-day unions and the ACLU would have to a proclamation like this one? You know instead of doing their duty to help the nation they’d do just the opposite and go on strike or sue the government...SOB’s.

1946 - Joseph Stalin announced a new five-year plan for the USSR, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.

That's a good one.  Production boosts in the Soviet Union were another way of saying the commissars needed to become more creative in making statistics up to satisfy Moscow.

1950 - In a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy charged the State Department was riddled with Communists.

'Crazy Joe' was considered ‘crazy’ at the time, but time has proved he was correct in many of his charges - particularly when it came to State...See the Venona Papers.