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
- 1276 –Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
- 1954 –McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy”, produced by Fred Friendly.
- 1959 –The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
- 1976 –Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
Who were born on March 9?
- 1627 –John Bowne, English-born American Quaker (d. 1695)
- 1815 –David Davis, American politician and jurist; United States Senator from Illinois and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1886)
- 1905 –Gerardus Philippus Helders, Dutch politician
- 1929 –Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh.
- 1945 –Robin Trower, British rock musician
- 1948 –Emma Bonino, Italian politician
- 1964 –Steve Wilkos, American police officer and talk show host
- 1965 –Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1966 –Tony Lockett, Australian footballer
- 1983 –Clint Dempsey, American footballer
Who died on March 9?
- 1422 –Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (b. 1380)
- 1888 –William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
- 1895 –Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer and journalist (b. 1836)
- 1983 –Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- 1989 –Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (b. 1946)
- 1992 –Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
- 1993 –C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (b. 1909)
- 1997 –Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter, creator of the Daleks (b.1930)
- 2006 –John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
- 2007 –Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician (b. 1935)
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