On Feb. 9, 1960,

Adolph Coors Co. chairman Adolph Coors III, 44, was shot to death during a botched kidnapping attempt while on his way to the family brewery in Golden, Colo. (Coors' body wasn't found for seven months; the man who killed him, Joseph Corbett Jr., served 19 years in prison. Corbett committed suicide in Aug. 2009.)

In 1773,

the ninth president of the United States, William Henry Harrison, was born in Charles City County, Va.

In 1825,

the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.