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This day in history: 9 March

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Key facts

297 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 9 March.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2023: A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Catherine of Bologna

Christian feast day: Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

Christian feast day: Frances of Rome

Christian feast day: Gregory of Nyssa (Episcopal Church (United States))

Christian feast day: March 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Pacian

Christian feast day: Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (Coptic Orthodox Church)

Teachers' Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)

Events

2023A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight.

2020Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, announces in a televised address and signs the decree imposing the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the world.

2015Two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collide in mid-air over Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all 10 people on board both aircraft, including French athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, as well as producers a

2012A truce between the Salvadoran government and gangs in the country goes into effect when 30 gang leaders are transferred to lower security prisons.

2011Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

2000Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, is launched.

1997Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.

1987Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation.

1978President Soeharto inaugurates Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.

1977The Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.

1976Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the deadliest cable car accident in history.

1974The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.

1967Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio, following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people.

1961Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.

1960Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.

1959The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

1957The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.

1956Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

1954McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.

1946Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.

1945World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.

1945World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.

1944World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.

1942World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrenders to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese complete their Dutch East Indies campaign.

1933Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.

1916Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.

1908Inter Milan is founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.

1883Demonstration of 9 March 1883: Parisian anarchists, unemployed and carpenters narrowly miss the Presidential palace during a violent protest; first use of the black flag as a symbol of anarchism by Louise Michel.

1862American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

1847Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.

1842Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.

1842The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

1841The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.

1815Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.

1811Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.

1796Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

1776Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations, ushering in the classical period of political economy.

1765After a 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 may have actually died by suicide.

1701Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation.

1500The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.

Born on this day

2003Sunisa Lee, American gymnast

2002Usman Garuba, Spanish basketball player

2001Jeon Somi, South Korean-Canadian singer

2000Khaby Lame, Senegalese-Italian social media personality

1999Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Finnish ice hockey player

1998Najee Harris, American football running back

1997Chika, American rapper

1997Nadeo Argawinata, Indonesian footballer

1995Cierra Ramirez, American actress and singer

1994Morgan Rielly, Canadian ice hockey player

1993George Baldock, Greek footballer (died 2024)

1993Miikka Salomäki, Finnish ice hockey player

1993Suga, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer

1991Jooyoung, South Korean singer-songwriter

1990Daley Blind, Dutch footballer

1990YG, American rapper

1989Taeyeon, South Korean singer

1987Bow Wow, American rapper and actor

1987Daniel Hudson, American baseball player

1986Brittany Snow, American actress and producer

1986Bryan Bickell, Canadian ice hockey player

1986Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player

1986Damien Brunner, Swiss ice hockey player

1985Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player

1985Jesse Litsch, American baseball player

1985Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer

1985Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan race car driver

1984Abdoulay Konko, French footballer

1984Julia Mancuso, American skier

1983Clint Dempsey, American soccer player

1983Wayne Simien, American basketball player

1982Érika de Souza, Brazilian basketball player

1982Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player

1982Ryan Bayley, Australian cyclist

1981Antonio Bryant, American football player

1981Chad Gilbert, American musician, songwriter, and producer (died 2026)

1981Clay Rapada, American baseball player

1980Chingy, American rapper

1980Matt Barnes, American basketball player

1980Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor

Died on this day

2023Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (born 1935)

2021James Levine, American conductor and pianist (born 1943)

2021Roger Mudd, American journalist (born 1928)

2020John Bathersby, Australian Catholic bishop (born 1936)

2018Jo Min-ki, Korean actor (born 1965)

2017Howard Hodgkin, British painter (born 1932)

2016Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player and coach (born 1929)

2016Robert Horton, American actor (born 1924)

2015James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and politician (born 1920)

2013Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat (born 1923)

2013Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (born 1928)

2011David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (born 1929)

2010Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (born 1910)

2010Henry Wittenberg, American wrestler (born 1918)

2010Wilfy Rebimbus, Indian singer (born 1942)

2010Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (born 1940)

2007Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1951)

2007Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1921)

2006Anna Moffo, American soprano (born 1932)

2006John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (born 1915)

2006Tom Fox, American activist (born 1951)

2004John Mayer, Indian composer (born 1930)

2003Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (born 1946)

2003Stan Brakhage, American director and cinematographer (born 1933)

2000Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (born 1908)

1999George Singh, Belizean jurist and Chief Justice of Belize (born 1937)

1999Harry Somers, Canadian pianist and composer (born 1925)

1997Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (born 1952)

1997Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter (born 1930)

1997The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper, songwriter, and actor (born 1972)

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius

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