On Feb. 9, 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.

In 1950, in a speech to the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists.

In 1964, the Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York with over 70 million viewers across the country.

In 1986, Halley’s Comet made its closest pass by Earth since 1910.

In 2020, “Parasite,” a film from South Korea, won the Academy Award for Best Picture, becoming the first non-English language film to do so.

In 2021, the Senate moved ahead with a second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.