About March 9
March 9, 2024 is the 69th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 326 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 9
- 141 BC –Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
- 1500 –The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
- 1841 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
- 1842 –The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
- 1896 –Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
- 1910 –The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
- 1916 –Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
- 1925 –Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
- 1933 –Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
- 1945 –The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
- 1946 –Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds injured
- 1959 –The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
- 1960 –Dr. 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.
- 1961 –Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
- 1976 –Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
- 1989 –Financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
- 1991 –Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
- 1997 –Comet 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.
- 2010 –The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
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