Today In History For February 9th

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2011. There are 325
days left in the year.

On Feb. 9, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America at a congress held in Montgomery, Ala. (He was inaugurated on Feb. 18.)

It was on this day in 1964, that the Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," broadcast from New York on CBS.

The U.S. Weather Bureau was established on this day in 1870