February 9th,1964Beatlemania hits prime time in the United States.

The Fab Four made their first live appearance on the American TV on the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS.

1950 In Villen, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy charges the State of Department is riddled with the communists. McCarthy’s speech sets the stage for his controversial campaign to rule out communists in the US government.

"Cheaters are not gentlemen like a friend, they do not understand being treated like gentlemen."1943During World War II allied forces defeated Japanese in the month-long battle of Guadalcanal in the Southwest Pacific. 1984The Soviet Union’s leader Yuri Andropov dies in Moscow at the age of 69. Andropov spent less than 15 months in power after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. And 1944Alice Walker, author of the Color Purple and other novels about African-American culture is born in Georgia. Today in History, February 9th. Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.