This day in History - February 9

434 Historic Events for February 9
1822 Event American Indian Society organizes
1822 Birth Charles T Stork, Dutch industrialist
1824 Death Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49
1825 Event House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1826 Birth John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1830 Birth Abdl Aziz, Istanbul Ottoman, 32nd sultan of Turkey (1861-76)
1834 Birth Felix Dahn, writer
1834 Birth Franz Xaver Witt, composer
1846 Death Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
1846 Birth Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
1849 Event Roman Republic declared
1849 Death Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76
1853 Birth Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
1854 Birth Aletta [Henri‰tte] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
1854 Birth Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)
1857 Birth Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
1860 Death Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63
1861 Event Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and VP of CSA
1861 Event Tennessee votes against secession
1861 Event Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
1863 Birth Anthony Hope [Hopkins], London, novelist
1863 Event Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
1865 Birth Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl
1865 Birth Mrs [Beatrice] Patrick Campbell, England, actress (Pygmalion)
1866 Birth George Ade, US, journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang)