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 68^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 24, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,024,640 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 ‘hexacontaoctagon’ 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 345 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 4,461 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 9 Historical Events

• 1009 –
  First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
• 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.
• 1862 –
  American Civil War: The USS Monitor and Ship CSS fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• 1916 –
  Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1933 –
  Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 1945 –
  The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
• 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.
• 2010 –
  The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
• 2011 –
  Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

Who were born on March 9?

• 1839 –
  Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
• 1894 –
  Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
• 1920 –
  Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist (d. 2008)
• 1940 –
  Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
• 1949 –
  Jamie Lyn Bauer, American actress
• 1956 –
  Mark Dantonio, American football coach
• 1964 –
  Herbert Fandel, German football referee
• 1972 –
  Spencer Howson, Australian broadcaster
• 1977 –
  Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentine supermodel
• 1979 –
  Melina Perez, American professional wrestler

Who died on March 9?

• 1649 –
  James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
• 1888 –
  William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
• 1897 –
  Jamal-al-Din Afghani, Afghan political activist and Islamic nationalist (b. 1838)
• 1918 –
  Frank Wedekind, writer (b. 1864)
• 1937 –
  Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
• 1975 –
  Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
• 1983 –
  Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 –
  Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1991 –
  Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
• 1997 –
  Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter, creator of the Daleks (b.1930)