About March 9
March 9, 2025 is the 68th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 345 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 9
- 1009 –First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
- 1230 –Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
- 1765 –After 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 committed suicide.
- 1811 –Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
- 1842 –The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- 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.
- 1944 –The Soviet Air Forces conduct heavy bombing on Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
- 1944 –World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
- 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
- 1954 –McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy”, produced by Fred Friendly.
- 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.
- 1967 –Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
- 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.
- 2011 –Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
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