Event:
Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets
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
