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, 483,744 hours 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

• 1276 –
  Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
• 1847 –
  Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
• 1896 –
  Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
• 1925 –
  Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1944 –
  The Soviet Air Forces conduct heavy bombing on Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
• 1945 –
  The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
• 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.
• 1977 –
  The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
• 2011 –
  Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

Who were born on March 9?

• 1856 –
  Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
• 1910 –
  Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
• 1944 –
  Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
• 1949 –
  Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
• 1963 –
  Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1975 –
  Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
• 1981 –
  Clay Rapada, American baseball player
• 1983 –
  Maite Perroni, Mexican singer (RBD)
• 1984 –
  Abdoulay Konko, French footballer
• 1985 –
  Parthiv Patel, Indian cricket player

Who died on March 9?

• 1810 –
  Ozias Humphrey, English artist (b. 1842)
• 1974 –
  Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1983 –
  Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 –
  Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 –
  Harry Catterick, English football manager (b. 1919)
• 1991 –
  Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
• 1993 –
  C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (b. 1909)
• 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)