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March 9 is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
• 1230 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
• 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.
• 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 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.
• 1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
• 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.
• 1847 – Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
• 1856 – National Fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
• 1910 – The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 1916 – Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 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.
• 1956 – Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
• 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
• 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
• 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
• 1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
• 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.
• 1989 – A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into 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.
• 1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are deployed in the streets.
• 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.

Births

• 1213 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271)
• 1285 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (d. 1318)
• 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)
• 1564 – David Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1617)
• 1568 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)
• 1629 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
• 1695 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (d.1772)
• 1720 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
• 1737 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (d. 1781)
• 1749 – Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
• 1753 – Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
• 1758 – Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (d. 1828)
• 1763 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
• 1806 – Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
• 1814 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 1861)
• 1815 – David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1886)
• 1820 – Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
• 1825 – Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
• 1833 – Frederick A. Schroeder, industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn (d. 1899)
• 1839 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
• 1856 – Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
• 1887 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1887 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
• 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (d. 1986)
• 1891 – José P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
• 1892 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (d. 1962)
• 1894 – Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
• 1900 – Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1948)
• 1902 – Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Paul Klipsch, American engineer (d. 2002)
• 1909 – Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
• 1910 – Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (d. 2001)
• 1918 – George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
• 1918 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1921 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1928 – Gerald Bull, Canadian artillery designer (d. 1990)
• 1929 – Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh.
• 1930 – Ornette Coleman, American musician
• 1931 – Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Keely Smith, American singer
• 1932 – Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
• 1933 – Mel Lastman, Canadian politician
• 1933 – Lloyd Price, American singer
• 1934 – Del Close, American actor, writer and teacher (d. 1999)
• 1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space (d. 1968)
• 1934 – Marlene Streit, Canadian golfer
• 1934 – Joyce Van Patten, American actress
• 1935 – Andrew Viterbi, American scientist and businessman
• 1936 – Mickey Gilley, American musician and singer
• 1936 – Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
• 1937 – Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
• 1937 – Brian Redman, English racing driver
• 1938 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
• 1940 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
• 1941 – Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
• 1942 – John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground)
• 1942 – Mark Lindsay, American musician (Paul Revere & The Raiders)
• 1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Charles Gibson, American television journalist
• 1943 – Colin Murdock, American voice actor
• 1943 – Trish Van Devere, American actress
• 1944 – Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
• 1945 – Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
• 1945 – Dennis Rader, American serial killer
• 1945 – Robin Trower, British rock musician
• 1946 – Jim Cregan, British rock musician
• 1947 – Keri Hulme, New Zealand writer
• 1948 – Emma Bonino, Italian politician
• 1948 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer
• 1949 – Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
• 1950 – Doug Ault, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1950 – Danny Sullivan, American race car driver
• 1951 – Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla player
• 1951 – Michael Kinsley, American journalist and editor
• 1951 – Helen Zille, South African politician
• 1952 – Bill Beaumont, English rugby player
• 1954 – Bobby Sands, IRA member (d. 1981)
• 1955 – Teo Fabi, Italian racing driver
• 1955 – Ornella Muti, Italian actress
• 1956 – Mark Dantonio, American football coach
• 1956 – Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General
• 1956 – David Willetts, UK Shadow Secretary for Education (Conservative)
• 1957 – Faith Daniels, American journalist
• 1957 – Mark Mancina, American composer
• 1957 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
• 1958 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1958 – Martin Fry, English pop singer (ABC)
• 1958 – Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer
• 1961 – Mike Leach, American football coach
• 1961 – Robert Rechsteiner (Rick Steiner), American wrestler
• 1961 – Darrell Walker, American basketball player
• 1962 – Jan Furtok, Polish footballer
• 1963 – Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1963 – David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician
• 1964 – Steve Wilkos, American police officer and talk show host
• 1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress
• 1964 – Herbert Fandel, German football referee
• 1964 – Phil Housley, American ice hockey player
• 1965 – Brian Bosworth, American football player
• 1965 – Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1966 – Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
• 1966 – Tony Lockett, Australian Rules Footballer
• 1966 – Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
• 1968 – Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
• 1968 – Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
• 1968 – Brian Heidik, American reality-show contestant
• 1969 – Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
• 1969 – Stefie Shock, Quebec singer and songwriter
• 1969 – Rob Dukes, American musician {Exodus}
• 1970 – Martin Johnson, English rugby player
• 1970 – Shannon Leto, American drummer and actor (30 Seconds to Mars)
• 1971 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
• 1971 – C-Murder, American rapper
• 1971 – Diego Torres, Argentine singer
• 1972 – Spencer Howson, Australian Broadcaster
• 1972 – Jean Louisa Kelly, American Actress
• 1972 – Kerr Smith, American actor
• 1973 – Aaron Boone, American baseball player
• 1975 – Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
• 1975 – Chaske Spencer, American actor
• 1975 – Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
• 1976 – Thor Halvorssen, human rights activist
• 1976 – Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
• 1977 – Yamila Diaz, Argentine supermodel
• 1977 – Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
• 1978 – Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Melina Perez, American WWE Diva
• 1980 – Chingy, American rapper
• 1980 – Trent Croad, Australian rules footballer
• 1980 – Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
• 1981 – Antonio Bryant, American football player
• 1981 – Anders Nøhr, Danish footballer
• 1981 – Clay Rapada, American baseball player
• 1983 – Clint Dempsey, American footballer
• 1983 – Ioannis Masmanidis, Greek-German footballer
• 1983 – Maite Perroni, Mexican singer (RBD)
• 1983 – Wayne Simien, American basketball player
• 1984 – Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
• 1985 – Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
• 1985 – Parthiv Patel, Indian Cricket Player
• 1986 – Brittany Snow, American actress
• 1987 – Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
• 1989 – Christina Broccolini, Canadian TV presenter
• 1989 – Taeyeon, Korean Singer
• 1996 – Darsheel Safary, Indian actor

Deaths

• 1202 – King Sverre of Norway
• 1422 – Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (b. 1380)
• 1440 – Saint Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
• 1566 – David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1533)
• 1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
• 1649 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
• 1661 – Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
• 1709 – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat (b. 1638)
• 1808 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
• 1810 – Ozias Humphrey, English artist (b. 1842)
• 1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)
• 1888 – William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
• 1897 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
• 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)
• 1945 – Margot Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish holocaust victim (b. 1926)
• 1954 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1954 – V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
• 1960 – Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
• 1964 – Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1966 – Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
• 1969 – Abdul Munim Riad general and chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces (b. 1919)
• 1971 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 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)
• 1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
• 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)
• 1993 – Bob Crosby, American bandleader and vocalist (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
• 1996 – George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
• 1997 – The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
• 1997 – Jean-Dominique Bauby, French Journalist & Author (b.1952), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• 1999 – Harry Somers, Canadian composer (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
• 2005 – Chris LeDoux, American country singer and rodeo competitor (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (b. 1912)
• 2005 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler; aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (b. 1924)
• 2006 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
• 2006 – Laura Stoica, Romanian singer, composer and actress (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician
• 2010 – Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)

Holidays and observances

• Baron Bliss Day (Belize)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Dominic Savio
  • Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
  • Frances of Rome
  • Gregory of Nyssa
  • Pacian
• Teacher's Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

People often say to me, "I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it," and I am apt to reply, "I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it." ~ Alan Watts

• selected by Kalki

2005

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin (born 9 March 1934)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Some choices will choose you. How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life. ~ Dana Reeve (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ~ Mickey Spillane (born 9 March 1918)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ~ Mickey Spillane

• selected by Kalki

2009

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. ~ Shashi Tharoor

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

You can figure things out as quickly as I can, but you haven't got the ways and means of doing the dirty work. That's where I come in. You'll be right behind me every inch of the way, but when the pinch comes I'll get shoved aside and you slap the cuffs on. That is, if you can shove me aside. I don't think you can. ~ Mickey Spillane

• 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

You have to be quick, and you have to be able, or you become one of the devoured, and if you can kill first, no matter how and no matter who, you can live and return to the comfortable chair and the comfortable fire. But you have to be quick. And able. Or you'll be dead. ~ Mickey Spillane

• 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. ~ Juliette Binoche (born 9 March 1964)

• 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC) I might rank this a 4 if a definite published source can be found for it.
• 1 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I looked and looked but I didn't see God. ~ Yuri Gagarin

• 3 because sometimes God need not be found by eyes, even when floating in outer space, through the eyes of an astronaut. Zarbon 15:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. ~ William Cobbett (born 9 March 1763), Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)

• 3 UDScott 15:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed. ~ William Cobbett, Political Register, XLVI, pp. 513-514 (May 31, 1823)

• 3 UDScott 15:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake. ~ Luis Barragán

• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. ~ Luis Barragán

• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

With that she dasht her on the lippes,
So dyed double red:
Hard was the heart that gave the blow,
Soft were those lips that bled. ~ William Warner (birth unknown/date of death)

• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with. ~ David Smith

• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me. ~ Bobby Fischer

• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin

• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination. ~ Shashi Tharoor

• 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Dear Mum, I know you're always there
To help and guide me with all your care,
You nursed and fed me and made me strong
To face the world and all its wrong. ~ Bobby Sands

• 3 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is 'the undauntable thought', my friend,
That thought that says 'I'm right!' ~ Bobby Sands

• 4 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all. ~ Vita Sackville-West

• 3 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. ~ Vita Sackville-West

• 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on March 9.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2008
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl released for the Wii in the United States

• 2007
  • Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS in Europe

• 2004
  • Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes released for the GameCube in the United States

• 1999
  • Mario Party released for the Nintendo 64 in Europe

Events

• 2007
  • GDC 2007 ends Began on March 5

From Familypedia

March 9 is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia.
• 1230 - Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
• 1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
• 1500 - The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover the sea route to Brazil, already Portuguese since the treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
• 1566 - David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1765 - After a public 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 had actually committed suicide.
• 1776 - Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
• 1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1834 - French Foreign Legion is founded.
• 1841 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.
• 1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
• 1847 - Mexican-American War: United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.
• 1856 - Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
• 1862 - American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships, a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, results in a draw.
• 1908 - Inter Milan is founded.
• 1910 - The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 1916 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, killing 17.
• 1924 - Italy annexes Fiume.
• 1925 - Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins.
• 1932 - The Egyptian University rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigns in protest of the transfer of Dr.Taha Hussein without the University's permission. In 2003, an academic group called "March 9" is established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence.
• 1932 - The first Ford Flathead engine leaves the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
• 1933 - Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
• 1935 - Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
• 1945 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.
• 1954 - McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
• 1957 - The magnitude 8.6 1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake and tsunami occurs.
• 1959 - The Barbie doll debuts.
• 1967 - Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• 1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1976 - Forty-two people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
• 1977 - The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.
• 1984 - The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
• 1986 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.
• 1989 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into 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.
• 1990 - Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.
• 1991 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
• 1993 - Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
• 2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
• 2007 - The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the FBI had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.

Births

• 1213 - Hugh IV, French crusader (d. 1271)
• 1285 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (d. 1318)
• 1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)
• 1564 - David Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1617)
• 1568 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)
• 1629 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
• 1720 - Philip Yorke, English politician (d. 1790)
• 1737 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (d. 1781)
• 1749 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
• 1753 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
• 1758 - Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (d. 1828)
• 1763 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
• 1806 - Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
• 1814 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 1861)
• 1815 - David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1886)
• 1820 - Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
• 1825 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
• 1839 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
• 1856 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
• 1887 - Phil Mead, English cricketeer (d. 1958)
• 1887 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
• 1890 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (d. 1986)
• 1892 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (d. 1962)
• 1894 - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
• 1900 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
• 1900 - Tomislav II of Croatia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1948)
• 1902 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1909 - Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
• 1910 - Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
• 1918 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967)
• 1918 - Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
• 1921 - Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1921 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
• 1923 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1929 - Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
• 1930 - Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist and composer
• 1932 - Keely Smith, American singer
• 1932 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
• 1933 - Mel Lastman, Canadian politician
• 1933 - Lloyd Price, American singer
• 1934 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1968)
• 1934 - Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer, and teacher (d. 1999)
• 1934 - Marlene Streit, Canadian golfer
• 1934 - Joyce Van Patten, American actress
• 1935 - Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist and businessman
• 1936 - Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
• 1936 - Mickey Gilley, American musician and singer
• 1937 - Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
• 1937 - Brian Redman, British racing driver
• 1938 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
• 1940 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
• 1941 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
• 1942 - John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground)
• 1942 - Mark Lindsay, American singer/musician (Paul Revere & The Raiders)
• 1943 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player
• 1943 - Charles Gibson, American television journalist
• 1943 - Trish Van Devere, American actress
• 1945 - Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
• 1945 - Dennis Rader, American serial killer
• 1945 - Robin Trower, British rock musician
• 1946 - Jim Cregan, British rock musician
• 1947 - Keri Hulme, New Zealandic writer
• 1948 - Jeffrey Osborne, American singer
• 1948 - Emma Bonino, Italian politician
• 1950 - Doug Ault, baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1950 - Danny Sullivan, American race car driver
• 1951 - Michael Kinsley, American journalist and editor
• 1951 - Helen Zille, South African politician
• 1954 - Bobby Sands, IRA member (d. 1981)
• 1955 - Teo Fabi, Italian racing driver
• 1955 - Ornella Muti, Italian actress
• 1956 - Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General
• 1956 - David Willetts, UK Shadow Secretary for Education (Conservative)
• 1957 - Mark Mancina, American composer
• 1957 - Faith Daniels, American journalist
• 1957 - Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
• 1958 - Martin Fry, English pop singer (ABC)
• 1958 - Daniel Imperato, United States Presidential candidate, business entrepreneur
• 1960 - Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1961 - Mike Leach, American college football coach
• 1961 - Robert Rechsteiner, US professional wrestler (Rick Steiner)
• 1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress
• 1962 - Jan Furtok, Polish footballer
• 1963 - Sean Salisbury, American football player
• 1963 - Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1963 - David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician
• 1964 - Juliette Binoche, French actress
• 1964 - Phil Housley, American ice hockey player
• 1964 - Herbert Fandel, German football referee
• 1965 - Brian Bosworth, American football player
• 1965 - Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1966 - Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
• 1966 - Tony Lockett, Australian Rules Footballer
• 1966 - Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
• 1968 - Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
• 1968 - Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
• 1969 - Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
• 1969 - Stefie Shock, Quebec singer and songwriter
• 1970 - Martin Johnson, English rugby player
• 1970 - Shannon Leto, American drummer and occasional actor (30 Seconds to Mars)
• 1971 - Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
• 1971 - C Miller, American rapper
• 1971 - Diego Torres, Argentine singer
• 1972 - Spencer Howson, Australian radio broadcaster
• 1972 - Kerr Smith, American actor
• 1973 - Aaron Boone, American baseball player
• 1975 - Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
• 1975 - Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
• 1976 - Thor Halvorssen, human rights activist
• 1976 - Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
• 1977 - Yamila Diaz, Argentine supermodel
• 1977 - Radek Dvořák, Czech hockey player
• 1978 - Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
• 1979 - Melina Perez, WWE Diva
• 1980 - Chingy, American rapper
• 1980 - Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor, film director, sketch artist, and former fashion model.
• 1981 - Antonio Bryant, American football player
• 1982 - Paul Ballard, English television presenter
• 1983 - Clint Dempsey, American footballer
• 1983 - Maite Perroni, singer in the Latin pop group RBD
• 1983 - Wayne Simien, American basketball player
• 1984 - Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
• 1986 - Brittany Snow, American actress
• 1987 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor

Deaths

• 1202 - King Sverre of Norway
• 1422 - Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (b. 1380)
• 1440 - St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
• 1566 - David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (b. 1533)
• 1649 - James Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
• 1649 - Henry Rich, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
• 1661 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
• 1709 - Ralph Montagu, English diplomat
• 1808 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
• 1851 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)
• 1888 - William I (b. 1797)
• 1897 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
• 1937 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
• 1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1954 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
• 1960 - Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
• 1964 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1966 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
• 1971 - Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)
• 1974 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 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)
• 1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (b. 1946)
• 1991 - Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
• 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)
• 1993 - Bob Crosby, American bandleader and vocalist (b. 1913)
• 1994 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
• 1994 - Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (b. 1917)
• 1994 - Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
• 1996 - George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
• 1997 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
• 1999 - Harry Somers, Canadian composer (b. 1925)
• 2000 - Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
• 2003 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)
• 2003 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
• 2004 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
• 2004 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
• 2004 - Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
• 2005 - Chris LeDoux, American country singer (b. 1948)
• 2005 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (b. 1912)
• 2005 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler; aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (b. 1924)
• 2006 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
• 2006 - Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
• 2007 - Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
• 2007 - Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician (b. unknown)

Holidays and observances

• Belize - Baron Bliss Day.

Liturgical feasts

Catholicism Feast day of

• Saint Gregory of Nyssa
• Saint Frances of Rome
• Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada