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March 9 Events in History - March 9 Birthdays - March 9 Deaths
March 9, 1997 Senior Golf Slam
March 9, 1997 Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open
March 9, 1996 Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India
March 9, 1996 Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs. England in WC QF
March 9, 1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
March 9, 1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
March 9, 1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
March 9, 1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
March 9, 1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
March 9, 1993 19th People's Choice Awards
March 9, 1993 7th Soul Train Music Awards
March 9, 1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
March 9, 1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
March 9, 1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
March 9, 1991 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
March 9, 1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
March 9, 1991 U.S. 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
March 9, 1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general
March 9, 1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
March 9, 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
March 9, 1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
March 9, 1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
March 9, 1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 9, 1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
March 9, 1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
March 9, 1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
March 9, 1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
March 9, 1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
March 9, 1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
March 9, 1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
March 9, 1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
March 9, 1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
March 9, 1984 John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time"
March 9, 1984 Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
March 9, 1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
March 9, 1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London
March 9, 1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
March 9, 1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
March 9, 1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
March 9, 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
March 9, 1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
March 9, 1979 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
March 9, 1978 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov
March 9, 1978 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS)
March 9, 1978 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR)
March 9, 1978 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
March 9, 1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C., siege ended Mar 11th
March 9, 1977 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
March 9, 1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
March 9, 1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
March 9, 1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 9 performances
March 9, 1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
March 9, 1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
March 9, 1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain
March 9, 1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4
March 9, 1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
March 9, 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
March 9, 1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
March 9, 1964 Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla
March 9, 1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages
March 9, 1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
March 9, 1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
March 9, 1962 U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
March 9, 1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
March 9, 1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
March 9, 1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit
March 9, 1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and "Never Again"
March 9, 1959 "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 16 performances
March 9, 1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
March 9, 1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
March 9, 1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
March 9, 1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
March 9, 1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles
March 9, 1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
March 9, 1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators)
March 9, 1954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
March 9, 1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
March 9, 1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
March 9, 1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
March 9, 1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York City
March 9, 1949 Brigadier Gen Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
March 9, 1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
March 9, 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
March 9, 1947 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
March 9, 1947 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
March 9, 1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
March 9, 1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
March 9, 1945 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
March 9, 1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
March 9, 1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
March 9, 1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
March 9, 1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
March 9, 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
March 9, 1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin
March 9, 1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days"
March 9, 1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
March 9, 1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
March 9, 1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
March 9, 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
March 9, 1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
March 9, 1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
March 9, 1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in New York City
March 9, 1923 NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
March 9, 1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in New York City
March 9, 1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
March 9, 1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
March 9, 1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
March 9, 1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
March 9, 1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed)
March 9, 1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
March 9, 1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12
March 9, 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
March 9, 1914 U.S. Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
March 9, 1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
March 9, 1907 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
March 9, 1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
March 9, 1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
March 9, 1897 Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
March 9, 1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
March 9, 1897 Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
March 9, 1895 Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1
March 9, 1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
March 9, 1889 Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
March 9, 1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S.
March 9, 1882 False teeth patented
March 9, 1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
March 9, 1868 The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
March 9, 1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
March 9, 1862 "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
March 9, 1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
March 9, 1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington
March 9, 1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
March 9, 1849 Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres
March 9, 1844 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice
March 9, 1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan
March 9, 1841 U.S. Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
March 9, 1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
March 9, 1822 Charles Graham of New York patents artificial teeth
March 9, 1820 Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
March 9, 1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
March 9, 1798 Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy
March 9, 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
March 9, 1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
March 9, 1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
March 9, 1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
March 9, 1701 France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance
March 9, 1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
March 9, 1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth
March 9, 1640 Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris
March 9, 1617 Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
March 9, 1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
March 9, 1551 Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
March 9, 1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
March 9, 1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
March 9, 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
March 9, 1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
March 9, 1452 Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor



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