What events have occured on Feburary 9th of any year?

Question

Make sure they are of importance. Please give me a reason for them.

This is for a 2-3 min speech in a few weeks.

I will do research on my own, but your help would be cool.

Answer 1

On February 9, 1861 Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy

Answer 2

Wikipedia! :-)

Answer 3

type the date into wikipedia.org you should get a list up of all years :)