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Historical Events

09 Mar 1009
First known written mention of Lithuania in the annals of Quedlinburg
09 Mar 1230
Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa
09 Mar 1551
Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
09 Mar 1562
Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
09 Mar 1566
David Rizzio the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse Edinburgh Scotland
09 Mar 1642
English Queen Henriette Maria arrives in Hellevoetsluis Netherlands
09 Mar 1689
Thomas Shadwell appointed second English Poet Laureate by William and Mary after John Dryden refuses to swear The Oath allegiance
09 Mar 1721
British Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
09 Mar 1741
British fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
09 Mar 1745
Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
09 Mar 1798
Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
09 Mar 1820
-11) Philippines chases out foreigners about 125 die
09 Mar 1822
Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth
09 Mar 1839
Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
09 Mar 1841
US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free
09 Mar 1844
Giuseppe Verdis opera Hernani premieres in Venice
09 Mar 1849
Carl Nikolais opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor premieres
09 Mar 1856
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
09 Mar 1858
Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
09 Mar 1860
1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington
09 Mar 1861
Confederate currency authorized - 50 100 500 1000
09 Mar 1862
USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads
09 Mar 1864
26th Grand National George Stevens wins his 3rd GN aboard 101 Emblematic winning mares full sister Emblem the race winner the previous year
09 Mar 1870
32nd Grand National George Stevens wins consecutive GNs aboard 72 favourite The Colonel his 5th and final GN victory
09 Mar 1889
Battle at Gallabat (Metema) Mahdis beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
09 Mar 1891
Great Blizzard of begins in England (lasts until 13th March 200 people and 6000 animals killed)
09 Mar 1895
Stanley Cup Montreal Victorias awarded cup as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA 5-1
09 Mar 1897
Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahlers 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
09 Mar 1897
Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis full-blooded Penobscot
09 Mar 1897
Indians fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
09 Mar 1904
Brandons Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
09 Mar 1907
1st involuntary sterilization law enacted Indiana
09 Mar 1907
Lady Gregorys Rising of the Moon premieres in Dublin
09 Mar 1908
Italian football club Inter Milan founded as Foot-Ball Club Internazionale
09 Mar 1914
Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
09 Mar 1916
Mexican General Francisco Pancho Villa invades US (18 killed)
09 Mar 1918
Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
09 Mar 1922
KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
09 Mar 1923
Elmer Rices Adding Machine premieres in NYC
09 Mar 1923
NHL Championship Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators 3-2 in 2
09 Mar 1924
South Slavia aproves Italys annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
09 Mar 1925
Pinks War the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy begins
09 Mar 1926
Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
09 Mar 1932
Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
09 Mar 1933
Bulgarian communists Dimitrov Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
09 Mar 1943
Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
09 Mar 1943
Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
09 Mar 1945
Japanese proclaim independence of Indo-China
09 Mar 1948
Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
09 Mar 1949
Brigadier General Edwin K Wright USA ends term as deputy director of CIA
09 Mar 1949
England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
09 Mar 1952
Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
09 Mar 1954
1st local color TV commercial WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)
09 Mar 1954
WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
09 Mar 1956
Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
09 Mar 1956
Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
09 Mar 1957
8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands Alaska
09 Mar 1957
4th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament North Carolina beats South Carolina 95-75
09 Mar 1958
George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2000 points in season
09 Mar 1959
The Coasters single Charlie Brown peaks at 2 on the Billboard Top 100
09 Mar 1959
Juno opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
09 Mar 1959
Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.
09 Mar 1961
Soviet flight Sputnik 9 carries and returns from orbit a dog named Chernushka (Blackie) frogs and a guinea pig
09 Mar 1961
Supremes release I Want A Guy & Never Again
09 Mar 1962
Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
09 Mar 1963
Beatles began 1st British tour supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez
09 Mar 1964
Creightons Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla
09 Mar 1964
Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages
09 Mar 1966
Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
09 Mar 1967
Svetlana Allilueva Stalins daughter defected to the West
09 Mar 1968
10th Grammy Awards Up Up & Away Sgt Peppers wins 4
09 Mar 1968
15th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament North Carolina beats NC State 87-50
09 Mar 1971
J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain
09 Mar 1977
Adm Stansfield Turner USN (Ret) becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
09 Mar 1978
Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov
09 Mar 1978
Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (Soviet Union)
09 Mar 1978
Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Ptzsch (East Germany)
09 Mar 1978
Mens Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
09 Mar 1979
Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
09 Mar 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
09 Mar 1972
Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike if necessary
09 Mar 1972
Four members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion at a house in Clonard Street Lower Falls Belfast
09 Mar 1974
Last Japanese soldier a guerrilla operating in Philippines surrenders 29 years after World War II ended
09 Mar 1974
21st ACC Mens Basketball Tournament NC State beats Maryland 103-100 (OT)
09 Mar 1975
Lieutenant opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
09 Mar 1975
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
09 Mar 1977
Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C. siege ended Mar 11th
09 Mar 1979
The Passage directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Anthony Quinn is released in the United States
09 Mar 1980
Flemish and Walloon battle in Belgium 40 injured
09 Mar 1981
Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
09 Mar 1983
Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
09 Mar 1984
Emile Gumbs Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
09 Mar 1984
Philadelphia 76ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
09 Mar 1984
Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
09 Mar 1984
The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington D.C.
09 Mar 1985
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (East Germany)
09 Mar 1985
26th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Auburn beats Alabama 53-49
09 Mar 1986
NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
09 Mar 1986
Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halleys Comet at 8030 km
09 Mar 1986
33rd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Duke beats Georgia Tech 68-67
09 Mar 1987
Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for 1 billion
09 Mar 1989
Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
09 Mar 1989
Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
09 Mar 1990
Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st Hispanic and female US Surgeon General
09 Mar 1991
Les Miserables opens at Lyric Theatre Brisbane
09 Mar 1991
Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
09 Mar 1991
US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
09 Mar 1993
Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
09 Mar 1994
IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on Londons Heathrow Airport
09 Mar 1995
Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
09 Mar 1995
Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
09 Mar 1995
President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece resigns
09 Mar 1996
Javed Miandads last international in Pakistans Cricket World Cup Quater Final loss to India
09 Mar 1997
44th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 5 North Carolina beats NC State 64-54
09 Mar 1997
38th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Georgia 95-68
09 Mar 2006
Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus the sixth largest moon of Saturn
09 Mar 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
09 Mar 2011
Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights
09 Mar 2012
Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested including one member of the FBI in the United States United Kingdom and Ireland
09 Mar 2013
19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul Afghanistan
09 Mar 2013
Asteroid ET comes within 960000 km from the Earths surface
09 Mar 2013
Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF light heavyweight title
09 Mar 2016
Eighth Democratic presidential candidates debate hosted by Univision and the Washington Post and held in Miami Florida
09 Mar 2016
EU Migrant Crisis Macedonia Croatia and Slovenia close their borders to migrants trying to reach Northern Europe
09 Mar 1861
Us Confederate currency authorized - 50 100 500 1000
09 Mar 1868
The opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas premieres in Paris
09 Mar 1895
Stanley Cup Victoria Rink Montreal Quebec Montreal Victorias clinches trophy as Montreal HC beats Queens University (Kingston Ontario) 5-1
09 Mar 1897
Cleveland Indians fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
09 Mar 1918
Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
09 Mar 1984
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is founded in Washington D.C.
09 Mar 1804
Georges Cadoudal Breton royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy arrested
09 Mar 1930
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brechts satirical opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny premieres in Leipzig Germany
09 Mar 1974
Last Japanese soldier a guerrilla operating in the Philippines surrenders 29 years after World War II ended
09 Mar 2020
National one-day womens strike held in Mexico to protest high rates of femicide (more than 10 women murdered every day)
09 Mar 1745
Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston [1]
09 Mar 1897
MLB Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis full-blooded Penobscot
09 Mar 1958
Detroit Pistons forward George Yardley III scores 26 points in 111-90 defeat to Syracuse Nationals 1st NBA player to score 2000 points in a season
09 Mar 2021
Brazil records its highest daily COVID-19 death toll to date of 1972 deaths with 168370 deaths overall
09 Mar 2021
China and Russia agree to build a research station on or around the Moon and collaborate on lunar missions in move that could start another space race
09 Mar 1914
Hendrikus Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
09 Mar 1929
Marcel Pagnols play Marius premieres in Paris
09 Mar 1933
42nd Street a musical film revolving around rehearsals for a Broadway show directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley and songs by Harry Warren and by Al Dubin premieres at the Strand NYC later adapted as a stage musical
09 Mar 1933
Bulgarian communists Georgi Dimitrov Blagoy Popov & Vasil Tanev arrested in Berlin Germany on charges of complicity in the Reichstag fire all were acquitted
09 Mar 1964
Creighton Universitys Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma State
09 Mar 1964
Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages
09 Mar 1987
Chrysler Corp offers to buy American Motors Corp for 1 billion
09 Mar 1996
Javed Miandads last international in Pakistans Cricket World Cup Quarter Final loss to India
09 Mar 2022
Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian city of Mariupol hit a hospital killing at least three people as attempts to create a humanitarian corridor out of the city fail [1]
09 Mar 1682
De Italiaanse Opera (The Italian Opera) theater on the Leidsegracht in Amsterdam closes less than 1-12 years after opening
09 Mar 1926
Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle and 1st female mayor of any major US city
09 Mar 1943
Delft Netherlands anti-Nazi resistance group Pahud de Mortanges wiped out
09 Mar 1956
Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested for sedition and exiled to Seychelles
09 Mar 1984
-5F ties lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio (first set in 1948)
09 Mar 2020
Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to a spike in COVID-19 cases with 10040 cases and 630 deaths
09 Mar 1551
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V appoints his son Philip II as heir to the throne
09 Mar 1562
Kissing in public is banned in Naples and is punishable by death
09 Mar 1617
Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo ending the Ingrian War
09 Mar 1908
Italian football club Inter Milan is founded as Football Club Internazionale
09 Mar 1918
Russian Bolshevik Party is renamed the All-Russian Communist Party
09 Mar 1963
The Beatles began a British tour supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
09 Mar 2023
Recording Industry Association of Americas 2022 year-end report states vinyl record sales (41 million) exceeded CD sales (33 million) for the first time since 1987
09 Mar 2023
Russia begins major missile attack on Ukrainian cities and their infrastructure with at least 11 killed and 20 injured [1]
09 Mar 2023
UN announces it has purchased a crude carrier to remove barrels of oil from a stricken ship off the coast of Yemen to prevent an environmental and humanitarian disaster [1]
09 Mar 1904
The legendary Lester Patrick becomes first ice hockey defenseman to score a goal in Brandon Wheat Citys 6-3 defeat to Ottawa HC in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals
09 Mar 1926
Bertha Landes is elected as the first woman mayor of Seattle and the first female mayor of any major US city
09 Mar 2025
Colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) a species identified in 1925 is filmed for the first time by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute the 30 sm (11.8 inches) juvenile was captured on video at a depth of 600 meters (1968 feet) near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean using SuBastian a remotely operated vehicle [1]