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 68th 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.
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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.
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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.
- 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.
- 1946 –Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds injured
- 1954 –McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy”, produced by Fred Friendly.
- 1957 –A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
- 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.
- 1989 –Financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
- 1990 –Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
- 2010 –The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
Who were born on March 9?
- 1814 –Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 1861)
- 1923 –James L. Buckley, American politician
- 1934 –Joyce Van Patten, American actress
- 1957 –Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
- 1961 –Mike Leach, American football coach
- 1964 –Steve Wilkos, American police officer and talk show host
- 1965 –Brian Bosworth, American football player
- 1970 –David Guido Pietroni, Italian director and producer
- 1987 –Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
- 1990 –Araz Özbiliz, Turkish footballer
Who died on March 9?
- 1649 –Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
- 1808 –Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
- 1945 –Margot Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish holocaust victim (b. 1926)
- 1954 –V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
- 1964 –Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
- 1975 –Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
- 1991 –Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
- 2005 –Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (b. 1912)
- 2006 –Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
- 2011 –David Broder, American journalist (b. 1929)
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