Carpe Diem! 1870- Weather Service 1824- Q. Adams elected President,(Jackson won popular election.) 1944- Alice Walter: what makes the Sabbath holy...?

2/9/1870 – National Weather Service was established.

2/9/1824 - U.S. House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy Adams as president, even though he won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election.

2/9/1944 – birthday of Alice Walker, who wrote:

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.