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• Today is Saturday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2013. There are 325 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied victory over Japanese forces.
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• On this date:
• In 1773, the ninth president of the United States, William Henry Harrison, was born in Charles City County, Va.
• In 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
• In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America at a congress held in Montgomery, Ala.
• In 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau was established.
• In 1933, the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University debated, then endorsed, 275-153, a motion "that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country," a stand widely denounced by Britons.
• In 1942, daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward.
• In 1950, in a speech in Wheeling, W.Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists.
• In 1963, the Boeing 727 went on its first-ever flight as it took off from Renton, Wash.
• In 1964, The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," broadcast from New York on CBS.
• In 1971, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in California's San Fernando Valley claimed 65 lives. The crew of Apollo 14 returned to Earth after man's third landing on the moon.
• In 1983, in a dramatic reversal from fifty years earlier (see above), the Oxford Union rejected, 416-187, a motion "that this House would not fight for Queen and Country."
• In 2002, Britain's Princess Margaret, the high-spirited and unconventional sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died in London at age 71.

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