Almanac for February 9th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for Feb. 9th: https://ko-fi.com/Post/February-9-Mary-Star-of-the-Sea-R6R41AOIZY

Washington, D.C. Evening Star, February 1, 1926

Beatles Trivia
February 9, 1964: The Beatles play five songs on The Ed Sullivan Show. 

Bummer February 9th

February 9, 1963: In a racially-charged incident captured in song by Bob Dylan, 51-year-old Hattie Carroll is working as a bar server at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore. The hotel is hosting an event called the Spinster’s Ball. One of the guests, Billy Zantzinger, who is white, is excessively drunk and physically and verbally abusing both his wife Jane and the African-American wait staff at the event.

Zantziger hurls racial slurs and other verbal abuse at Carroll, then strikes her in the neck/upper shoulder region with his cane. Carroll immediate begins feeling numbness in her arm, and her co-workers notice her speech is slurred. She’s taken to the hospital, where Carroll dies of a brain hemorrhage. Zantziger is convicted of manslaughter for Carroll’s death, but his sentence is a paltry six months in prison and a $500 fine, plus a fine of $125 for assaulting the other wait staff.

February 9, 1965: U.S. intervention in Vietnam begins in earnest when the U.S. sends the first ground troops to South Vietnam. An estimated 4 million Vietnamese citizens, most of them civilians, will be killed by the time the U.S. withdraws troops in 1973.