About March 9
March 9, 2023 is the 68th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 338 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 9
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1896 –Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1956 –Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization policy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
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