Event:
Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf
More Notable Events on February 9:
1991 U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
1964 GI Joe character created
1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S.
1895 Volleyball invented by W. G. Morgan in Massachusetts
1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president
