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.
- 1230 –Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
- 1276 –Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
- 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.
- 1796 –Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds injured
- 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.
- 1976 –Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
- 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.
- 1991 –Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
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