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
- 1009 –First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
- 1276 –Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
- 1566 –David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1796 –Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
- 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 –Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy’s foremost opera writers.
- 1842 –The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The USS Monitor and Ship CSS fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
- 1896 –Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
- 1989 –Financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
- 1990 –Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
- 2011 –Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
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