March 9

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March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). There are 297 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia
1230 - Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1566 - David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, was murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1765 - After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.
1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1841 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
1847 - Mexican-American War: United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.
1862 - American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships - In a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia the USS Monitor fights the CSS Virginia to a draw.
1908 - Inter Milan was founded.
1916 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
1924 - Italy annexes Fiume.
1932 - The Egyptian University rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigned to protest against the transfer of Dr.Taha Hussein without the University permission. On 2003, an academic group called "march 9" was established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence.
1933 - Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
1935 Hitler announced the creation of a new air force.
1945 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.
1954 - McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
1957 - Aleutian Islands register a 9.1 magnitude earthquake.
1959 - The Barbie doll debuts.
1964 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
1967 - Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 - 42 people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1977 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
1981 - Ketchup is declared a vegitable, to help public schools with the balanced meal plan.
1986 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.
1987 - Rock band U2 release the album The Joshua Tree.
1989 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy.
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
1990 - Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.
1991 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
1993 - Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
1995 - Kappa Phi Lambda is founded at Binghamton University.
2004 - John Allen Muhammad is sentenced to death for his part in the Beltway sniper attacks of October 2002. Lee Boyd Malvo is sentenced to life in prison.
2004 - A terrorist attack on a restaurant in Istanbul kills one and injures 5.
2004 - The US federal building and courthouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was renamed the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse.
2005 - Dan Rather presents his final broadcast of the CBS Evening News.
2006 - Liquid Water discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.

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Births

1213 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271)
1285 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (d. 1318)
1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)
1564 - David Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1617)
1568 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)
1629 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
1720 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
1737 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (d. 1781)
1749 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
1758 - Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (d. 1828)
1763 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
1806 - Edwin Forrest, American Actor, philanthropist (d. 1872)
1814 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 1861)
1825 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
1839 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
1856 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
1887 - Phil Mead, English cricketeer (d. 1958)
1890 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (d. 1986)
1892 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (d. 1962)
1900 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
1902 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
1907 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986)
1909 - Derk Bodde, American sinologist
1910 - Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
1918 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967)
1918 - Mickey Spillane, American writer
1923 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1929 - Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
1932 - Keely Smith, American singer
1932 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
1933 - Mel Lastman, Canadian politician
1934 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1968)
1934 - Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer, and teacher (d. 1999)
1936 - Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
1936 - Mickey Gilley, American musician and singer
1937 - Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
1938 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
1940 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
1941 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
1942 - Mark Lindsay, American singer musician (Paul Revere & The Raiders)
1943 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player
1943 - Charles Gibson, American television journalist
1945 - Robin Trower, English Musician
1945 - Dennis Rader, American serial killer
1947 - Keri Hulme, New Zealand writer
1948 - Jeffrey Osborne, American singer
1950 - Doug Ault, baseball player (d. 2004)
1950 - Danny Sullivan, American race car driver
1951 - Michael Kinsley, American journalist and editor
1954 - Bobby Sands, Irish republican (d. 1981)
1956 - David Willetts, UK Shadow Secretary for Education(Conservative)
1958 - Martin Fry, English Pop Singer (ABC)
1960 - Linda Fiorentino, American actress
1961 - Robert Rechsteiner, US Professional wrestler
1963 - Sean Salisbury, American football player
1963 - Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
1964 - Juliette Binoche, French actress
1964 - Phil Housley, American ice hockey player
1965 - Brian Bosworth, American football player
1965 - Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player
1968 - Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
1970 - Shannon Leto, American musician (30 Seconds To Mars)
1971 - Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
1971 - C Miller, American rapper
1972 - Kerr Smith, American actor
1972 - Spencer Howson, Australian radio broadcaster
1973 - Aaron Boone, American baseball player
1975 - Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
1975 - Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
1977 - Radek Dvořák, Czech hockey player
1978 - Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
1979 - Melina Perez, WWE Diva
1980 - Chingy, American rapper
1981 - Antonio Bryant, American football player
1984 - Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
1987 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor