This Day in History: February 9

On February 9, 1775, Parliament declared Massachusetts to be "in a state of rebellion," and events began to move ever quicker. The colonists' local Committee of Public Safety, which included a number of prominent Dorchester men, responded with a vote to procure arms and supplies for an army of up to 15,000 and to organize local contingents of Minutemen into companies of 50 volunteers each.

And now these heirs of Liberty give us Teddy Kennedy.