What are the important events that happened on March 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 9 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 25, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,499,040 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontaenneagon’ day.
Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,096 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 9 Historical Events
- 1230 –Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
- 1566 –David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1811 –Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
- 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.
- 1910 –The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
- 1925 –Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on March 9?
- 1820 –Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
- 1945 –Dennis Rader, American serial killer
- 1945 –Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
- 1945 –Robin Trower, British rock musician
- 1961 –Mike Leach, American football coach
- 1968 –Brian Heidik, American reality-show contestant
- 1969 –Rob Dukes, American musician (Exodus)
- 1976 –Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
- 1983 –Maite Perroni, Mexican singer (RBD)
- 1984 –Julia Mancuso, American skier
Who died on March 9?
- 1808 –Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
- 1897 –Jamal-al-Din Afghani, Afghan political activist and Islamic nationalist (b. 1838)
- 1918 –Frank Wedekind, writer (b. 1864)
- 1985 –Harry Catterick, English football manager (b. 1919)
- 1994 –Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (b. 1917)
- 2001 –Louiza Podimata, Greek actress (b. 1920)
- 2004 –Gerald Deskin, clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
- 2005 –Chris LeDoux, American country singer and rodeo competitor (b. 1948)
- 2005 –Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler (b. 1924)
- 2007 –Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
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