February 9 in history: • 1861 – Jefferson Davis was named the provisional president of the Confederate States of America. → go there • 1971 – An earthquake registering 6.6 Mw struck the northern San Fernando Valley near the Los Angeles district of Sylmar, killing 65 people. → go there • 1976 – The Australian Defence Force (ensign pictured) was formed by the integration of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Royal Australian Air Force. → go there • 1996 – Breaking a seventeen-month ceasefire, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a powerful truck bomb in the London Docklands, killing two people and injuring more than a hundred others. → go there • 2001 – The American submarine collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by a high school, sinking the latter ship and killing nine people on board. → go there Died 1450: Agnès Sorel Wiki link Born 1896: Alberto Vargas Wiki link Born 1931: Philipp Harnoncourt Wiki link Born 1981: Tom Hiddleston Wiki link Pictured: [[Australian Defence Force Ensign]].