March 9

Holidays

• Saint Frances of Rome.
• Belize - Baron Bliss Day.
• Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Events

• 2019 Rakhine insurgents from the Arakan Army attacked a post at a village in Rakhine State killing nine policemen. The victims were all local recruits from the village.
• 2018 Media of the United Kingdom: After 66 years, British music journalist magazine New Musical Express (NME), issues its last print edition. It has become a digital media medium.
• 2017 American-led intervention in Syria, Syrian Civil War: According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights), at least 23 civilians were killed in air raids by the U.S.-led coalition in northern Syria's village of al-Matab.
• 2016 War in Afghanistan (2001-present: Taliban militants attacked government offices in southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan. At least 10 people were killed, seven of them being the attackers.
• 2015 Two cars of a Carolinian Amtrak passenger train, running north from Charlotte, North Carolina to New York City, collided with a tractor-trailer at Halifax, North Carolina. The accident resulted in the train being derailed and several people suffering minor injuries.
• 2014 42 people are killed by a suicide car bomber at a Hillah police station, Iraq.
• 2012 Arab Spring
• 2011 Space Shuttle Discovery's final landing after 39 flights.
• 2010 Washington, D.C., hosts the first ever same-sex marriages.
• 2009 Barack Obama signs an executive decree restoring funding to stem cell research.
• 2008 Carl Bildt, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, says Kosovo could become a member of European Union even though it is not a United Nations member.
• 2007 Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, suspends Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry over allegations of abuse of authority.
• 2006 Astronomers have announced that the Cassini Huygens probe detected geysers of water at Saturn's moon Enceladus. This could be the first instance of naturally occurring liquid water outside of Earth.
• 2005 Cyclone Ingrid has become a category 3 storm and is currently crossing the Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland, Australia, late on March 9, 2005 UTC. ABOM
• 2004 Two Islamic suicide bombers attacked Istanbul restaurant in Turkey on March 9, 2004, killing one and injuring five others.
• 2003 "ArabNews" reports that Saddam Hussein requested that the UN Security Council lift its ampquotembargo on Iraqampquot. He also denounced the United States of America and the United Kingdom as "liarsampquot. He demanded that Israel be forced to withdraw from Palestine and the occupied Arab Landampquot.
• 2001 Superior Galleries, Salt Lake City, Utah sells a US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent Coin to Dwight Manley at a auction for US$1.84 Million.
• 2000 Ely Sakhai, a suspect in art forgery, was arrested by the FBI in New York City.
• 1997 Senior Golf Slam
• 1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
• 1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
• 1993 7th Soul Train Music Awards
• 1991 Les Miserables, opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
• 1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic / female US surgeon general
• 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60 metre hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds).
• 1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
• 1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
• 1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger Astronauts
• 1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
• 1984 John Lennon releases Borrowed Time
• 1983 Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
• 1982 The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan support for terrorist groups.
• 1981 Max Delbrnck, German/US biologist (Nobel Prize 1969), dies at age 74 (born 1906).
• 1980 Flemish / Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
• 1979 Bowie Kuhn orders Major League Baseball to give equal access to female reporters.
• 1978 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov
• 1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington DC, siege ended March 11th
• 1976 First female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy.
• 1975 Lieutenant opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
• 1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.
• 1972 Players on Chicago White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary.
• 1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 West Indies versus India at Port-of-Spain.
• 1968 10th Grammy Awards: "Up Up and Away", Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band win.
• 1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Josef Stalin's daughter, defects to the West in New York City.
• 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black Governor of Federal Reserve Board
• 1965 The US Treasury Department begins sales of Special Mint sets, at US$4 per set. Collectors can buy in lots of 1, 2, 5, or 10.
• 1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
• 1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
• 1962 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians.
• 1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
• 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.
• 1959 Juno opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
• 1958 George Yardley (Detroit Pistons) is first NBA player to score 2,000 points in season.
• 1957 A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
• 1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
• 1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC
• 1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow.
• 1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title.
• 1951 United Artists releases sci-fi film ''The Man from Planet X''.
• 1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of US$64,000 in New York City, New York.
• 1949 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
• 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia.
• 1947 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill.
• 1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia / Semarang
• 1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
• 1944 World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
• 1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
• 1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway begins.
• 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Cincinnati Reds to make a comeback as a baseball player.
• 1935 March 9 ampndash Porky Pig makes his debut as the first major Looney Tunes character in I Haven't Got a Hat.
• 1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its 100 days
• 1932 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland.
• 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman Mayor of Seattle
• 1925 Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
• 1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
• 1919 The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 breaks out.
• 1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens.
• 1916 Germany declares war against Portugal.
• 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as Director of Bataafsche Petroleum Company
• 1910 The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna.
• 1900 Women in Germany demand the right to participate in university entrance exams.
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on March 9?

• Juliette Binoche

  French actress, dancer, and painter, a sweet, sensual leading lady and 1996 Oscar-winning French actress of "The English Patient.

• Ornella Muti

  Italian actress debuting at the age of 16.

• Bow Wow

  American rapper and actor.

• Matthew Gray Gubler

  American actor.

• Brittany Snow

  American actress.

• Oscar Isaac

  Movie Actor.

• Linda Fiorentino

  American actress.

• Shannon Leto

  American drummer and actor (30 Seconds to Mars).

• Raul Julia

  Actor (Addams Family), dies of a stroke at 54.

• Kerr Smith

  American actor.

• Jean Louisa Kelly

  American actress.

• Lilou Fogli
• Jean-Marc Vallée

  Canadian director and screenwriter.

• Lloyd Price

  American singer-songwriter.

• Chaske Spencer

  American actor.

• Diego Torres

  Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor.

• Cierra Ramirez

  TV Actress.

• Tom Amandes

  American actor and director.

• Keely Smith

  American singer.

• Brian Bosworth

  American football player and actor.

• Finn Carter

  American actress and photographer.

• Taina Elg

  Helsinki, Finland -- Actress (Hercules in NY, Les Girls).

• Marguerite Chapman

  Chatham, New York -- Actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars).

• Bobby Campo

  Movie Actor.

• Marty Ingels

  American actor (d. 2015).

• Carl Betz

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show).

• Trish Van Devere

  American actress.

• Will Geer

  Actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75.

• Darsheel Safary

  Indian actor.

• Neil Hamilton

  Actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85.

• Joyce Van Patten

  American actress.

• Paola Quattrini

  Italian actress.

• James Buckley

  American politician (Senator-Republican-New York).

• Alexandra Bastedo

  English actress (d. 2014).

• Bobby Fischer

  American chess grand master, a child prodigy who began learning chess at age 6 and began competing in chess tournaments at age 10.

• Walter Mercado

  Puerto Rican astrologist and actor.

• Valérie Lemercier

  French actress and humourist, director, writer and singer.

• Yamila Diaz
• Yuri Gagarin

  Russian cosmonaut, the first man in space 04/12/1961 when he orbited the earth in Vostok spaceship.

• Kim Tae-yeon

  Pop Singer.

• Marie Cardinal

  French writer, educator and translator, the sister of TV director Pierre Cardinal.

• Maite Perroni

  Mexican singer (RBD).

• Sophie Schutt
• Jean-Pierre Chevènement

  French Minister for Investigation and Industry with an eventful career in government service.

• André Courrèges

  French fashion designer with the most influential impact on his field since Dior's "New Look.

• Jean-Jacques Debout

  French singer of the "yéyé" period in the sixties, he grew up in Saint-Mandé, close to Paris, where Jacques Mesrine (future criminal) became...

• Dennis Rader

  American charged with the murder of ten people, including seven women, over the course of 27 years.

• Shashi Tharoor

  Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General.

• Chingy

  American rapper.

• Carlos Ghosn
• John Cale

  Welsh singer-songwriter viola player and producer (The Velvet Underground and Theatre of Eternal Music).

• Nathanaël de Rincquesen
• Ornette Coleman

  American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer.

• María Eugenia Suarez
• Julia Mancuso

  American skier.

• Melina Perez

  American professional wrestler.

• Félix Labisse

  French artist, a painter and set designer.

• Kimberly Guilfoyle

  American attorney and media person, former wife of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

• YG (rapper)
• Samuel Barber

  West Chester, Pennsylvania -- Composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal).

• Mark Lindsay

  American musician, composer, vocalist, saxophonist, guitar and piano player.

• Kato Kaelin

  American newsfigure and minor entertainer, best known as a friend of Nicole and O.J.

• Lucien Morisse
• Youri Djorkaeff

  French footballer, son of an international player (Jean Djorkaeff, with Russian-Polish origins) and born to an Armenian mother.

• Marianne Basler

  French/Belgian actress of Swiss origin.

• Ion Caramitru
• Michael Patrick MacDonald

  American memorist.

• Vincent Desagnat
• Rona Hartner
• Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

  American basketball player, a one-time basketball guard for the Sacramento Kings organization.

• Bobby Sands

  Irish Republican Army activist, dies in his 66th day of hunger strike (born 1954).

• Monique Mélinand
• Gisèle Oudart
• Jean MacArthur
• Thierry Vigneron

  French athlete (vault).

• Jean-Pierre Depétris
• George Lincoln Rockwell

  founder of the American Nazi Party (d. 1967).

• David Kennerly

  American writer, a journalist and photographer; the personal photographer of President Gerald Ford.

• Peter Wishart
• Lauren Koslow
• Eric Flaim

  American skater, a silver medallist in the 1500 meter Olympic race 2/1988.

• Maurizio Stecca

  Italian Olympic Gold Medal champion bantamweight boxer, the brother of boxer Loris Stecca.

• Pascal Vahirua
• Gilles Perrault

  French lawyer, writer and journalist.

• Jim Colbert

  American golfer, pro since 1965.

• Jean-Luc Fonck

  Belgian comedian, singer and poet.

• Adonal Foyle

  American basketball player; center, Warriors.

• Mirjana Lucic
• Lucinha Lins
• Teo Fabi

  Formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983).

• Jean Champion
• Lady Isabella Hervey
• Gerry Lindgren

  American athlete.

• David Smith
• Elena Furiase
• Vincent Defrasne

  French biathlete, who won a gold medal in the 12.

• Mickey Spillane

  American writer who began selling his stories in 1935 to slick and pulp magazines.

• Jean Rougerie
• Amir Peretz

  Moroccan-born Israeli politician, head of Labor Party.

• Sam Sheen

  American child of noted parents, actor Charlie Sheen and actress Denise Richards, and granddaughter of actor Martin Sheen.

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Famous Deaths

• Faye Emerson

  American actress seen in early TV.

• Charles Bukowski

  German-American writer who traveled throughout the U.S.

• Jean-Dominique Bauby

  French journalist, editor-in-chief of Elle magazine from 1995.

• Robert Mapplethorpe

  American contemporary photographer whose prints began at a price of $5,000 while sittings started at $10,000.

• Fernando Rey

  Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States.

• Kurt Georg Kiesinger

  third West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at age 83 (born 1904).

• C Northcote Parkinson

  British historian and writer (Born 1909).

• Peter Mansfield

  English physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate.

• John Profumo

  British government official.

• Stan Brakhage

  American director and producer (d. 2003).

• Shirley Ross

  Omaha, Nebraska -- Actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm).

• Barbara Mullen

  Actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64.

• Olga Chekova

  Actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82.

• Ned Calmer

  TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78.

• Ad van Gessel

  Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers).

• Lawrence E Spivak

  Journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93.

• Notorius B I G [Biggie Small

  Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24.

• Paul Elmer More

  American critic and essayist (Born 1864).

• V Walfrid Ekman

  Swedish oceanographer (Born 1874).

• Geir Ivars?y

  Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (Born 1957).

• Anthon van der Horst

  Dutch organist/composer, dies at age 65.

• Earl W Sutherland Jr

  US pharmacologist (Nobel Prize 1971), dies at age 58.

• Joseph Dunninger of New York City

  New York, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at age 82.

• Ruud van den Hende

  Dutch sports reporter, dies at age 63.

• Ian Ballantine

  publisher, dies of heart attack at age 79.

• Maurice Purtill

  American Big Band drummer (Born 1916).

• Abdul Munim

  Riad general and chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces (Born 1919).

• Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck

  German general (Born 1870).

• Gleb W Derujinsky

  Russian-American sculptor (Born 1888).

• Harry Catterick

  English football manager (Born 1919).

• Jim Hardin

  former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (Born 1943).

• Eddie Creatchman

  Canadian wrestler manager (Born 1928).

• Ivo Robic

  Croatian singer and songwriter (Born 1923).

• Louiza Podimata

  Greek actress (Born 1920).

• Dr Gerald Deskin

  Ph.

• Rust Epique

  former Crazy Town guitarist and frontman for the Alternative Rock band, pre)Thing (Born 1968).

• Istvan Nyers

  Hungarian footballer (Born 1924).

• Laura Stoica

  Romanian singer, composer and actress (Born 1967).

• Jeanne Hopkins Lucas

  North Carolina politician (Born 1935).

• David Broder

  American journalist (Born 1929).

• Doris Haddock

  American activist known as Granny D. This past freezing winter (1999), in spite of her 89 years and health concerns, she walked and skied...

• Terry Nation

  Welsh novelist and screenwriter, creator of the Daleks (Born1930).

• Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs

  German astronomer and academic (d. 1954).

• Ida B Wells-Barnett

  Famous black, dies in Chicago at 78.

• James Brooks

  US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia New York), dies at age 85.

• Carlos Pedrell

  Composer, dies at 62.

• Matthew A Henson

  Met Peary on 6 / 4 / 1909 at North Pole, dies at 88.

• Johanna W "Mina" Bakker

  Dutch actress (Boefje), dies at 87.

• Kazys Boruta

  Writer.

• Jean-Pierre Guezek

  Composer, dies at 36.

• Menachem W Begin

  Prime Minister of Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies at 85.

• Jack Beattie

  Northern Irish politician (Born 1886).

• Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria

  Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (Born 1902).

• The Notorious BIG

  American rapper (Born 1972).

• Eberhard Nestle German biblical scholar

  dies at age 61.

• [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind German writer/press secretary

  dies at age 53.

• Howard Engstrom of Boston

  Massachussettes, USA, a designer of Univac computer, dies at age 59.

• Richard A Butler

  English minister of Finance, dies at age 79.

• Louis Freeman

  band leader, dies at age 100.

• Elman Ali Ahmed

  peace campaigner, dies at age 42.

• Alan Hugh Iliffe

  psychologist, dies at age 77.

• Sydney Baynes

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Frank Wedekind

  German actor and dramatist who became an intense personal force in the German artistic world on the eve of World War I..

• Margot Frank

  German-born Dutch Jewish holocaust victim (Born 1926).

• Glen Harmon

  Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1921).

• Albert Mol

  Dutch author and actor (d. 2002).

• Pablo Birger

  Argentinian race car driver (d. 1966).

• John Harrison

  English carpenter and clock-maker invented the Marine chronometer (d. 1776).

• Alan Badel

  Actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at 58.

• Harry Somers

  Canadian soldier and composer (d. 1999).

• Kurt Lotz

  German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (Born 1912).

• Chris LeDoux

  American country singer and rodeo competitor (Born 1948).

• Bob Crosby

  swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at age 79.

• Rex Marshall

  TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show).

• Riad

  Chief of Staff (Egyptian army).

• Richard Crane

  Actor (Surfside 6), dies at 50.

• Felipe Turich

  Actor (Lawless).

• Jack McEdward

  Assistant Director (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 Baauer - Harlem Shake
• 2012 Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
• 2011 Lady GaGa - Born This Way
• 2010 The Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
• 2009 Flo Rida - Right Round
• 2008 Flo Rida - Low
• 2007 Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
• 2006 James Blunt - You're Beautiful
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny
• 2001 Joe - Stutter
• 2000 Lonestar - Amazed
• 1999 Cher - Believe
• 1998 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
• 1997 The Spice Girls - Wannabe
• 1996 Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day
• 1995 Madonna - Take A Bow
• 1994 Ace Of Base - The Sign
• 1993 Snow - Informer
• 1992 Mr. Big - To Be With You
• 1991 Mariah Carey - Someday
• 1990 Janet Jackson - Escapade
• 1989 Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes
• 1988 Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
• 1987 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
• 1986 Mr. Mister - Kyrie
• 1985 REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
• 1984 Van Halen - Jump
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• 1982 The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
• 1981 Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night
• 1980 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• 1979 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
• 1978 Andy Gibb - (Love Is) Thicker Than Water
• 1977 Barbra Streisand - Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
• 1976 The Miracles - Love Machine (Part 1)
• 1975 Olivia Newton-John - Have You Never Been Mellow
• 1974 Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
• 1973 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
• 1972 Nilsson - Without You
• 1971 The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• 1969 Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
• 1968 Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
• 1967 The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
• 1966 Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
• 1965 The Beatles - Eight Days A Week
• 1964 The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
• 1963 The 4 Seasons - Walk Like A Man
• 1962 Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby
• 1961 Chubby Checker - Pony Time
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
• 1958 The Silhouettes - Get A Job
• 1957 Tab Hunter - Young Love
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 twenty one pilots - Heathens
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Alice In Chains - Your Decision