Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9
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Giuseppe Verdi -
"The Oak of the Golden Dream" -
Battle of Hampton Roads -
Costume sketch for the original production of Nabucco -
Éamon de Valera -
Bust of Adam Smith -
The Battle of Hampton Roads, 1862 -
Svetlana Alliluyeva -
Vivian Stranders
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 141 BC – Emperor Wu of China's Han Dynasty began a reign that would last over 50 years. | refimprove section |
| 1276 – Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire became a free imperial city. | refimprove section |
| 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had been taken into slavery illegally. | US v Amistad: unreferenced section, lots of CN tags; Amistad: date not in article, lots of CN tags |
| 1945 – World War II: In a coup d'état, Imperial Japanese Army officers ousted the government of French Indochina. | citations needed |
| 1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – 1976 Cavalese cable car crash | cleanup required |
| 1978 – The Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, was inaugurated by President Suharto. | tagged, also out of date |
| 1991 – A mass rally in Belgrade turned into a riot featuring vicious clashes between the protesters and police, leaving at least two people dead. | refimprove |
| 2010 – The first legal U.S. same-sex marriages south of the Mason–Dixon line took place in the District of Columbia. | outdated look |
| 2012 – Israel carried out a targeted air strike in the Gaza Strip, beginning three weeks of clashes with Palestinian militant groups. | neutrality issues |
| Vyacheslav Molotov |b|1890 | unreferenced list of decorations (2022) |
Eligible
- 1009 – The first recorded use of the name of Lithuania appeared in Latin in the Annals of Quedlinburg, written in Saxony-Anhalt, present-day Germany.
- 1842 – Awaking from a nap under a tree at Rancho San Francisco, Francisco López made the first popularly documented discovery of gold in California.
- 1842 – Nabucco, an opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi that established his reputation, premiered at La Scala in Milan.
- 1847 – Mexican–American War: The Siege of Veracruz began, the first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States military forces.
- 1862 – American Civil War: In the world's first battle between two ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
- 1910 – A seventeen-month-long strike, which at its peak involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- 1927 – Former Royal Air Force officer Vivian Stranders (pictured) was convicted of industrial espionage by a French court.
- 1932 – Éamon de Valera (pictured), a dominant political figure in 20th-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
- 1933 – U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
- 1944 – World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air Forces heavily bombed Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
- 1946 – Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
- 1959 – The popular fashion doll Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
- 1967 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
- 1977 – Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.
- Born/died this day: | Mary Anning |d|1847| Eddie Foy Sr. |b|1856| Mary Harris Armor |b|1863| Herbert Maryon |b|1874| Jane Joseph |d|1929| Qayyum Chowdhury |b|1932| Yuri Gagarin |b|1934| Takaaki Kajita |b|1959| The Notorious B.I.G. |d|1997| George Singh |d|1999
Notes
- La traviata (another Verdi opera) appears on March 6, so Nabucco should not appear in the same year.
March 9: Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2026); National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2026)
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Kaʻiulani
- 1776 – Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes his book The Wealth of Nations, the first classical treatise on political economy.
- 1891 – Kaʻiulani (pictured) was appointed the heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
- 1925 – The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan, present-day Pakistan.
- 1956 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, soldiers suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization.
- 1957 – The Andreanof Islands earthquake struck Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, causing more than $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
- Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (d. 886)
- Catherine of Bologna (d. 1463)
- Friederike Caroline Neuber (b. 1697)
- Dick Walker (b. 1938)