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Send This Page To A Friend \| Home What happened today in history? Uncle Woody's Almanac for February 9
2002	Princess Margaret, sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, dies in her sleep at a London hospital, at age 71.
1995	Former US Senator J. William Fulbright dies in Washington, DC, at age 89.
1990	Supplies of Perrier water are voluntarily recalled in the US after benzene is detected in a small number of bottles.
1984	Russian leader Yuri Andropov dies at age 69.
1981	Bill Haley, dynamic rock 'n roll singer of Bill Haley and the Comets, dies in Harlingen, Texas, at age 55.
1976	Composer-arranger Percy Faith dies in Encino, California, at age 67.
1971	Apollo 14, and its crew of three astronauts, returns to Earth after America's third lunar landing mission.
1967	The Beatles record three takes of Fixing A Hole, a song that will ultimately appear on their Sergeant Pepper album, at Regent Sound Studio in London. (photo credit: Capitol Records)
1966	Vaudeville singer/comedienne Sophie Tucker dies of lung cancer at age 82.
1964	The Beatles make their American TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1950	Senator Joseph McCarthy alleges that some staff of the US State Department are Communists.
1943	The southwest Pacific island of Guadalcanal is liberated by American forces, as the US defeats Japan in this epic WWII battle.
1870	The US Weather Bureau is established.
1861	Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1825	John Quincy Adams is elected US president by the House of Representatives when no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes. (photo credit: NARA)