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On this day - March 9
Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne ...
1009 — First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the ...
1226 — Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital ...
1230 — Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the ...
1500 — The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the ...
1701 — Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year ...
1765 — After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris ...
1776 — Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of ...
1796 — Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de ...
1811 — Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of ...
1815 — Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in ...
1841 — The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The ...
1842 — The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at ...
1842 — Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its ...
1847 — Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault ...
1862 — American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from ...
1883 — Demonstration of 9 March 1883 : Parisian anarchists, ...
1908 — Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, ...
1916 — Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican ...
1933 — Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the ...
1942 — World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to ...
1944 — World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
1945 — World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, ...
1945 — World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French ...
1946 — Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, ...
1954 — McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, ...
1956 — Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian ...
1957 — The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian ...
1959 — The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International ...
1960 — Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a ...
1961 — Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human ...
1967 — Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord ...
1974 — The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, ...
1976 — Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the ...
1977 — The Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims ...
1978 — President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first ...
1987 — Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors ...
1997 — Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern ...
2000 — Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, is launched.
2011 — Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 ...
2012 — A truce between the Salvadoran government and gangs in the ...
2015 — Two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collide in mid-air ...
2020 — Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, announces in a ...
2023 — A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, ...