March 9

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on March 9. From 1900 until now. March 9 is under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Juliette Binoche (1964), Ornella Muti (1955) and Bow Wow (1987). Several movies were released around March 9 over the years, such as The King and the Mockingbird in 1980 directed by Paul Grimault and Breathless in 1960 directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
But much more happened on March 9 over the years: find out below

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Saint Frances of Rome.
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2019 Internal conflict in Myanmar: Rakhine insurgents of the Arakan Army attack a police post in a village in Rakhine State, killing nine policemen. All of the victims were local recruits from the village. (Reuters)
2018 Media of the United Kingdom: British music journalism magazine New Musical Express (NME) issues its final print edition after 66 years, becoming a purely digital medium. (London Evening Standard)
2017 Syrian Civil War, American-led intervention in Syria: According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, multiple suspected U.S.-led coalition air raids kill at least 23 civilians in the village of al-Matab in northern Syria. (Al Jazeera)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Taliban militants attack government offices in the southern Helmand Province of Afghanistan, with at least 10 killed, including seven of the attackers. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2015 A Carolinian Amtrak passenger train (running north from Charlotte, North Carolina, to New York City) hits a tractor-trailer in Halifax, North Carolina resulting in two cars of the train derailing with several people receiving minor injuries. (AP via MSN)
2014 A suicide car bomber kills 42 people at a police checkpoint in Hillah, Iraq. (Voice of America)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
2010 The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
2009 US President Barack Obama signs an executive order restoring funding for stem cell research.
2008 Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt says that Kosovo may become a European Union member state even if it is not a member of the United Nations. (Xinhua News Agency)
2007 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suspends Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on charges of misuse of authority. (IBN)
2006 Astronomers announce that the Cassini–Huygens probe has detected possible geysers of water on Saturn's moon Enceladus, perhaps the first example of naturally occurring liquid water beyond Earth. (AP) (JPL)
2005 Cyclone Ingrid diminishes to a category 3 storm, and is crossing the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia late on March 9, 2005 UTC. ABOM
2004 March 9, 2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant in Turkey by two Islamic suicide bombers killing one, injuring five. (Reuters) (ChannelNewsAsia)
2003 ''ArabNews'' reports that Saddam Hussein demanded that the UN Security Council lift the ampquotembargo against Iraqampquot, denounce the United States and the United Kingdom as ampquotliarsampquot, strip Israel of weapons of mass destruction and force Israel to withdraw from ampquotPalestine and occupied Arab landampquot.
2001 At an auction in Salt Lake City, Utah, Superior Galleries sells a US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin to Dwight Manley for US$1.84 million.
2000 The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai 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 (Castro Decorators)
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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