Today in History.....February 9

On this day in …

* 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes

* 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau was established

* 1942, daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward

* 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces

* 1950, in a speech in Wheeling, W.Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists

* 1964, The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on CBS

* 1971, the Apollo 14 spacecraft returned to Earth after man's third landing on the moon

* 1994, PLO leader Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres initialed an agreement on security measures that the terrorist claimed had been blocking implementation of a peace accord

* 1995, the Irish Republican Army ended its cease-fire with a truck bombing in London that killed two and injured 37

* 2004, a new postage stamp honoring President Reagan was issued in ceremonies across the country