Today is Thursday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2012 with 326 to follow.

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of ...

A thought for the day: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson said, "Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

Those born on this date include:

former Secretary of State Dean Rusk in 1909

country singer Ernest Tubb and baseball entrepreneur Bill Veeck, both in 1914

actor Kathryn Grayson in 1922

Irish playwright Brendan Behan in 1923

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Today is Thursday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2012 with 326 to follow.

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus.

In 1775, the American colony of Massachusetts declared in rebellion by the British Parliament.

In 1825, after no presidential candidate won the necessary majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams the sixth president of the ...

Those born on this date include:

- former Secretary of State Dean Rusk in 1909

- country singer Ernest Tubb and baseball entrepreneur Bill Veeck, both in 1914

- actor Kathryn Grayson in 1922

- Irish playwright Brendan Behan in 1923

- ...