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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 9 is the 68th day of the year (69th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
297 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths ·
6Sources Events[edit]
·
141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han,
assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.[1] ·
1009 – First known
mention of Lithuania, in
the annals of
the monastery of Quedlinburg.[2] ·
1226 – Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers
the Georgian capital
of Tbilisi.[3] ·
1230 – Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen
II defeats Theodore of Epirus in
the Battle of
Klokotnitsa.[4] ·
1500 – The fleet
of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries
granted to Portugal in the Treaty of
Tordesillas.[5] ·
1701 – Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending
a three year occupation.[6] ·
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.[7] ·
1776 – The Wealth of
Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.[8] ·
1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first
wife, Joséphine de
Beauharnais.[9] ·
1811 – Paraguayan
forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at
the Battle of Tacuarí.[10] ·
1815 – Francis Ronalds describes the first
battery-operated clock in the Philosophical
Magazine.[11] ·
1841 – The U.S.
Supreme Court rules in the United
States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had
seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.[12] ·
1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première
performance in Milan; its success
establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.[13] ·
1842 – The first documented discovery
of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco,
six years before the California Gold Rush.[14][15] ·
1847 – Mexican–American War:
The first large-scale amphibious assault in
U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.[16] ·
1862 – American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a
draw in the Battle of Hampton
Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.[17] ·
1908 – Inter Milan was founded on Football
Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.[18] ·
1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican
raiders in an attack against
the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.[19] ·
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D.
Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking
Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.[20] ·
1942 – World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally
surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed
their Dutch East
Indies campaign.[21] ·
1944 – World War
II: Soviet
Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.[22] ·
1945 – World War
II: A
coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French
from power.[23] ·
1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures
hundreds more.[24] ·
1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television
broadcasts the See It Now episode,
"A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.[25] ·
1956 – Soviet forces suppress mass
demonstrations in the Georgian
SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.[26] ·
1957 – The 8.6 Mw Andreanof
Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in
damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.[27] ·
1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at
the American
International Toy Fair in New York.[28] ·
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.[29] ·
1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches,
carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.[30] ·
1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord
Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with
a Beechcraft Baron,
killing 26 people.[31] ·
1974 – The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent
module too early, missing Mars.[32] ·
1976 – Forty-two
people die in the Cavalese
cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.[33] ·
1977 – The Hanafi Siege:
In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.[34] ·
1978 – President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road,
the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.[35] ·
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.[36] ·
2011 – Space
Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after
39 flights.[37] Births[edit]
·
1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and
explorer (d. 1512)[38] ·
1564 – David Fabricius, German theologian,
cartographer and astronomer (d. 1617)[39] ·
1568 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)[40] ·
1662 – Franz Anton von
Sporck, German noble (d. 1738)[41] ·
1697 – Friederike
Caroline Neuber, German actress (d. 1760)[42] ·
1737 – Josef
Mysliveček, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1781)[43] ·
1749 – Honoré
Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and
politician (d. 1791)[44] ·
1753 – Jean-Baptiste Kléber,
French general (d. 1800)[45] ·
1758 – Franz Joseph Gall,
German neuroanatomist and physiologist (d. 1828)[46] ·
1763 – William Cobbett, English journalist and
author (d. 1835)[47] ·
1806 – Edwin Forrest, American actor and
philanthropist (d. 1872)[48] ·
1814 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and
playwright (d. 1861)[49] ·
1815 – David
Davis, American jurist and politician (d. 1886)[50] ·
1820 – Samuel Blatchford,
American lawyer and jurist (d. 1893)[51] ·
1824 – Amasa Leland
Stanford, American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (d.
1893)[52] ·
1847 – Martin Pierre
Marsick, Belgian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)[53] ·
1850 – Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and
academic (d. 1925)[54] ·
1856 – Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer
(d. 1928)[55] ·
1863 – Mary Harris Armor,
American suffragist (d. 1950)[56] ·
1887 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician
(d. 1976)[57] ·
1890 – Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer and
lieutenant (d. 1915)[58] ·
1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov,
Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)[59] ·
1891 – José P. Laurel,
Filipino lawyer, politician and President of
the Philippines (d. 1959)[60] ·
1892 – Mátyás Rákosi,
Hungarian politician (d. 1971)[61] ·
1892 – Vita Sackville-West,
English author, poet, and gardener (d. 1962)[62] ·
1902 – Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)[63] ·
1904 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch,
American soldier and engineer, founded Klipsch Audio
Technologies (d. 2002)[64] ·
1910 – Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer
(d. 1981)[65] ·
1911 – Clara Rockmore, American classical violin
prodigy and theremin player, (d. 1998)[66] ·
1915 – Johnnie
Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (d. 2001)[67] ·
1918 – George Lincoln
Rockwell, American sailor and politician, founded the American Nazi Party (d.
1967)[68] ·
1918 – Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (d.
2006)[69] ·
1920 – Franjo Mihalić,
Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (d. 2015)[70] ·
1921 – Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)[71] ·
1922 – Ian Turbott, New Zealand-Australian former
diplomat and university administrator (d. 2016)[72] ·
1923 – James L. Buckley, American lawyer, judge,
and politician[73] ·
1923 – André Courrèges,
French fashion designer (d. 2016)[74] ·
1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2016)[75] ·
1926 – Joe Franklin, American radio and television
host (d. 2015)[76] ·
1928 – Gerald Bull, Canadian-American engineer and
academic (d. 1990)[77] ·
1928 – Keely Smith, American singer and actress (d.
2017)[78] ·
1929 – Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer, politician
and President of Guyana (d.
2002)[79] ·
1929 – Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician,
19th President of
Bangladesh (d. 2013)[80] ·
1930 – Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist,
violinist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2015)[81] ·
1931 – Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician (d. 2014)[82] ·
1932 – Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and
academic (d. 2014)[83] ·
1932 – Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican-American
astrologer and actor (d. 2019)[84] ·
1933 – Lloyd Price, American R&B singer-songwriter[85] ·
1933 – David Weatherall, English physician,
geneticist, and academic (d. 2018)[86] ·
1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
(d. 1968)[87] ·
1934 – Joyce Van Patten, American actress[88] ·
1935 – Andrew Viterbi, American engineer and
businessman, co-founded Qualcomm Inc.[89] ·
1936 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter
and pianist[90] ·
1936 – Marty Ingels, American actor and comedian
(d. 2015)[91] ·
1937 – Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer, politician
and Premier of Quebec (d.
2018)[92] ·
1937 – Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and sportscaster[93] ·
1937 – Brian Redman, English race car driver[94] ·
1940 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d.
1994)[95] ·
1941 – Jim Colbert, American golfer[96] ·
1941 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (d. 1976)[97] ·
1942 – Ion Caramitru, Romanian actor and artistic
director[98] ·
1942 – Mark Lindsay, American singer-songwriter,
saxophonist, and producer[99] ·
1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and
author (d. 2008)[100] ·
1944 – Lee Irvine, South African cricketer[101] ·
1945 – Robert Calvert, English singer-songwriter
and playwright (d. 1988)[102] ·
1945 – Robin Trower, English rock guitarist and
vocalist[103] ·
1946 – Alexandra Bastedo,
English actress (d. 2014)[104] ·
1946 – Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and
producer (d. 1990)[105] ·
1946 – Bernd Hölzenbein,
German footballer and scout[106] ·
1947 – Keri Hulme, New Zealand author and poet[107] ·
1948 – Emma Bonino, Italian politician, Italian
Minister of Foreign Affairs[108] ·
1948 – Eric Fischl, American painter and sculptor[109] ·
1948 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer [110] ·
1949 – Neil Hamilton,
Welsh lawyer and politician[111] ·
1950 – Doug Ault, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2004)[112] ·
1950 – Andy North, American golfer[113] ·
1950 – Howard Shelley, English pianist and conductor[114] ·
1951 – Helen Zille, South African journalist,
politician and Premier of
the Western Cape[115] ·
1952 – Bill Beaumont, English rugby player and
manager[116] ·
1954 – Carlos Ghosn, Brazilian-Lebanese-French
business executive[117] ·
1954 – Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer;
Irish republican politician (d. 1981)[118] ·
1954 – Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle racer (d.
1982)[119] ·
1955 – Teo Fabi, Italian race car driver[120] ·
1955 – Józef Pinior, Polish academic and politician[121] ·
1956 – Mark Dantonio, American football player and
coach[122] ·
1956 – Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Indian
Minister of External Affairs[123] ·
1956 – David Willetts, English academic and
politician[124] ·
1958 – Paul MacLean,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach[125] ·
1959 – Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate[126] ·
1959 – Lonny Price, American actor, director, and
screenwriter[127] ·
1960 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress[128] ·
1961 – Rick Steiner, American wrestler[129] ·
1961 – Darrell Walker, American basketball player
and coach[130] ·
1963 – Terry Mulholland, American baseball player[131] ·
1963 – Jean-Marc Vallée,
Canadian director and screenwriter[132] ·
1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress[133] ·
1964 – Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and
coach[134] ·
1965 – Brian Bosworth, American football player and
actor[135] ·
1965 – Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican-American
baseball player[136] ·
1966 – Brendan Canty, American drummer and
songwriter[137] ·
1966 – Tony Lockett, Australian footballer[138] ·
1968 – Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer[139] ·
1969 – Kimberly Guilfoyle,
American lawyer and journalist[140] ·
1970 – Naveen Jindal, Indian businessman and
politician[141] ·
1970 – Martin
Johnson, English rugby player and coach[142] ·
1971 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor[143] ·
1972 – Jodey Arrington, United States politician[144] ·
1973 – Liam Griffin,
English race car driver[145] ·
1975 – Juan Sebastián Verón,
Argentinian footballer[146] ·
1977 – Radek Dvořák,
Czech ice hockey player[147] ·
1979 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor[148] ·
1981 – Antonio Bryant, American football player[149] ·
1981 – Clay Rapada, American baseball player[150] ·
1982 – Ryan Bayley, Australian cyclist[151] ·
1982 – Matt Bowen, Australian rugby league player[152] ·
1982 – Mirjana
Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player[153] ·
1983 – Wayne Simien, American basketball player[154] ·
1983 – Clint Dempsey, American international soccer
player, forward[155] ·
1984 – Abdoulay Konko, French footballer[156] ·
1984 – Julia Mancuso, American skier[157] ·
1985 – Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player[158] ·
1985 – Jesse Litsch, American baseball player[159] ·
1985 – Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan race car driver[160] ·
1985 – Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer[161] ·
1986 – Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player[162] ·
1986 – Brittany Snow, American actress and producer[163] ·
1989 – Taeyeon, South Korean artist, member
of Girls' Generation[164] ·
1990 – Daley Blind, Dutch footballer[165] ·
1990 – Matt
Robinson, New Zealand rugby league player[166] ·
1990 – YG (rapper), American rapper[167] ·
1991 – Jooyoung, Korean singer-songwriter[168] ·
1993 – Suga, South Korean artist (BTS)[169] ·
1994 – Morgan Rielly, Canadian ice hockey player[170] Deaths[edit]
·
886 – Abu Ma'shar
al-Balkhi, Muslim scholar and astrologer (b.
787)[171] ·
1202 – Sverre of Norway[172] ·
1440 – Frances of Rome, Italian nun and saint (b.
1384)[173] ·
1444 – Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist (b. c.1370)[174] ·
1463 – Catherine of Bologna,
Italian nun and saint (d. 1463)[175] ·
1566 – David Rizzio, Italian-Scottish courtier and
politician (b. 1533).[176] ·
1649 – James
Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician,
(b. 1606)[177] ·
1649 – Henry
Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier and politician (b. 1590)[178] ·
1661 – Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French academic
and politician, Prime Minister
of France (b. 1602)[179] ·
1709 – Ralph
Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English courtier and politician (b.
1638)[180] ·
1808 – Joseph Bonomi the
Elder, Italian architect (b. 1739)[181] ·
1810 – Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic
(b. 1742)[182] ·
1825 – Anna Laetitia
Barbauld, English poet, author, and critic (b. 1743)[183] ·
1831 – Friedrich
Maximilian von Klinger, German author and playwright (b. 1752)[184] ·
1847 – Mary Anning, English paleontologist (b. 1799)[185] ·
1851 – Hans Christian
Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (b. 1777)[186] ·
1888 – William I,
German Emperor (b. 1797)[187] ·
1895 – Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1836)[188] ·
1897 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (b.
1825)[189] ·
1918 – Frank Wedekind, German author and playwright
(b. 1864)[190] ·
1925 – Willard Metcalf, American painter and
academic (b. 1858)[191] ·
1926 – Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader,
founded Reiki (b. 1865)[192] ·
1937 – Paul Elmer More, American journalist and
critic (b. 1864)[193] ·
1943 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor
(b. 1878)[194] ·
1954 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman,
Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)[195] ·
1955 – Miroslava,
Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)[196] ·
1964 – Paul von
Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)[197] ·
1969 – Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)[198] ·
1971 – Pope Cyril VI
of Alexandria (b. 1902)[199] ·
1974 – Earl Wilbur
Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1915)[200] ·
1974 – Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)[201] ·
1983 – Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)[202] ·
1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and
pharmacologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1905)[203] ·
1988 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger,
German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b.
1904)[204] ·
1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe,
American photographer (b. 1946)[205] ·
1991 – Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b.
1943)[206] ·
1992 – Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier,
politician and Prime Minister
of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1913)[207] ·
1993 – C. Northcote
Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)[208] ·
1994 – Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist,
and short story writer (b. 1920)[209] ·
1994 – Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler,
referee, and manager (b. 1928)[210] ·
1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)[211] ·
1997 – Jean-Dominique Bauby,
French journalist and author (b. 1952)[212] ·
1997 – Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter
(b. 1930)[213] ·
1997 – The Notorious B.I.G.,
American rapper, songwriter, and actor (b. 1972)[214] ·
1999 – Harry Somers, Canadian pianist and composer
(b. 1925)[215] ·
2000 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and
educator (b. 1908)[216] ·
2003 – Stan Brakhage, American director and
cinematographer (b. 1933)[217] ·
2003 – Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (b.
1946)[218] ·
2006 – Tom Fox, American activist (b. 1951)[219] ·
2006 – John Profumo, English soldier and
politician, Secretary of
State for War (b. 1915)[220] ·
2007 – Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1951)[221] ·
2007 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1921)[222] ·
2010 – Willie Davis,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1940)[223] ·
2010 – Doris Haddock, American activist and politician
(b. 1910)[224] ·
2011 – David S. Broder, American journalist and
academic (b. 1929)[225] ·
2013 – Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat[226] ·
2013 – Merton Simpson, American painter and art
collector (b. 1928)[227] ·
2015 – James
Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and
politician (b. 1920)[228] ·
2016 – Robert Horton,
American actor (b. 1924)[229] ·
2016 – Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1929)[230] ·
2017 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter (b. 1932)[231] ·
2018 – Jo Min-ki, Korean actor (b. 1965)[232] ·
2020 – John Bathersby, Australian Catholic bishop
(b. 1936)[233] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Forty Martyrs of
Sebaste[235] o Pope Cyril VI
of Alexandria (Coptic
Orthodox Church)[238] o Gregory of Nyssa (Episcopal
Church (United States))[239] o March
9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Teachers' Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)[240] |
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