Notable Historical Events on March 9th
March 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
141 |
Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China. Rules for 54 years |
BC AD | |
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. |
1496 |
Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria |
1497 |
Nicolaus Copernicus' 1st recorded astronomical observation |
1500 |
Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India |
1522 |
-16] Marten Luther begins preaching his Invocavit Sermons in German city of Wittenberg |
1551 |
Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne |
1562 |
Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) |
1566 |
David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
1617 |
Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa |
1640 |
Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris |
1642 |
English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands |
1701 |
France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance |
1721 |
English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower |
1741 |
English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena |
1745 |
Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston |
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. |
1776 |
Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. |
1798 |
Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy |
1820 |
-11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die |
1822 |
Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth |
1834 |
French Foreign Legion is founded. |
1839 |
Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours |
1841 |
US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free |
1842 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan |
1844 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani" premieres in Venice |
1849 |
Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" premieres |
1856 |
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama |
1858 |
Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox |
1860 |
1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington |
1861 |
Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000 |
1862 |
USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads |
1864 |
Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army |
1868 |
The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris |
1889 |
Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV |
1889 |
Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US |
1893 |
Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs |
1895 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1 |
1897 |
Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin) |
1897 |
Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot |
1897 |
Indians fans start calling the team "Indians" (in 1915 becomes official) |
1904 |
Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal |
1907 |
1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana |
1907 |
Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon" premieres in Dublin |
1908 |
Inter Milan is founded. |
1914 |
Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co |
1914 |
US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico" |
1916 |
Mexican General Francisco "Pancho" Villa invades US (18 killed) |
1916 |
Germany declares war against Portugal |
1918 |
Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party |
1918 |
Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda |
1918 |
Wageningen Agricultural College Neth opens |
1922 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in NYC |
1922 |
KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions |
1923 |
Amsterdam taxi strike ended |
1923 |
Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine" premieres in NYC |
1923 |
NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2 |
1924 |
South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) |
1925 |
Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins. |
1926 |
Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle |
1929 |
Marcel Pagnol's "Marius" premieres in Paris |
1932 |
Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland |
1932 |
Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria |
1933 |
Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin |
1933 |
Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days" |
1935 |
Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force. |
1936 |
Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player |
1942 |
Construction of the Alaska Highway began |
1943 |
Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown |
1943 |
Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps |
1945 |
334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb |
1945 |
Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China |
1946 |
Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang |
1946 |
Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League, he refuses |
1947 |
US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
1947 |
US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
1948 |
Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia |
1949 |
Brigadier Gen Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1949 |
England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes |
1950 |
Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC |
1951 |
Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb |
1952 |
Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title |
1953 |
Josef Stalin buried in Moscow |
1954 |
1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators) |
1954 |
Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now) |
1954 |
WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles |
1956 |
Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England |
1957 |
8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska |
1958 |
George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season |
1959 |
"Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1959 |
1st known radar contact is made with Venus |
1959 |
Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold |
1961 |
1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9 |
1961 |
Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72 |
1961 |
Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit |
1961 |
Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again" |
1962 |
Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians |
1962 |
US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight |
1963 |
Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez |
1964 |
1st Ford Mustang produced |
1964 |
Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla |
1964 |
Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages |
1966 |
Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board |
1967 |
Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West |
1968 |
10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4 |
1971 |
J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain |
1971 |
Three off-duty Scottish soldiers are killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 4000 shipyard workers take to the streets to demand internment in response |
1972 |
Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary |
1972 |
Four members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion at a house in Clonard Street, Lower Falls, Belfast |
1974 |
Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended |
1975 |
"Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances |
1975 |
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. |
1976 |
1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy |
1976 |
Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0 |
1977 |
Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Wash DC, siege ended Mar 11th |
1977 |
Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche |
1978 |
Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov |
1978 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS) |
1978 |
Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR) |
1978 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA) |
1979 |
Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters |
1979 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1980 |
Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured |
1980 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament |
1981 |
Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News |
1981 |
7th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda & Goldie Hawn win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV) |
1983 |
Caryl Churchill's "Fen" premieres in London |
1983 |
Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana |
1984 |
Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections |
1984 |
John Lennon single "Borrowed Time" released posthumously |
1984 |
Phila 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record |
1984 |
Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1984 |
The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C. |
1985 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
1986 |
16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000 |
1986 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1986 |
NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts |
1986 |
Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km |
1987 |
Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion |
1988 |
President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp |
1989 |
Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy |
1989 |
Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) |
1989 |
US Senate rejects President Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary |
1989 |
Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court |
1989 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1990 |
Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general |
1991 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane |
1991 |
5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg |
1991 |
Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
1991 |
US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit |
1993 |
7th Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Mary J. Blige win |
1993 |
Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak |
1993 |
Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs |
1994 |
IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport |
1995 |
Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays |
1995 |
Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record) |
1995 |
President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns |
1996 |
Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India |
1996 |
Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) v England in WC QF |
1996 |
STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands |
1997 |
Senior Golf Slam |
1997 |
Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open |
2002 |
Joe Sakic plays his 1,000th career game |
2006 |
Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn. |
2007 |
The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens. |
2011 |
Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights. |
2012 |
Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland |
2013 |
19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan |
2013 |
Asteroid 2013 ET comes within 960,000 km from the Earth's surface |
2013 |
Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF Light Heavyweight title |
2016 |
Former WADA president rips Maria Sharapova: 'How stupid can you be?' |
2016 |
Kremlin says Sharapova doping case doesn't reflect Russia |
2016 |
Europe's deal with Turkey fails to deter migrant attempts for now |
2016 |
US serves up Korean rocket salad in war drill response to North's nuclear threats |
2016 |
Palestinian attacks surge during Biden visit to Israel |
2016 |
Study links Zika virus to brain inflammation |
2016 |
North Korea fires two short-range missiles into sea - Yonhap |
2016 |
Biden, Netanyahu discuss Iran, Islamic State, Syria in Jerusalem meeting |
2016 |
New York to expand free Zika testing to pregnant women |
2018 |
Oil prices rise as US President Trump set to meet North Korea's Kim |
2018 |
China, Japan, South Korea bristle over US steel, aluminum tariffs |
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