On this day: 9 March
Events, births and deaths on 9 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Clyde Lovellette
- Deaths · Robert Horton
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Mikao Usui
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 21
- 1230(Julian date)Battle of Klokotnitsa — 1230 battle in Bulgaria
- 1811Battle of Tacuarí — 1811 battle
- 1847Siege of Veracruz — 1847 battle of the Mexican-American War
- 1883Demonstration of 9 March 1883 — 1883 anarchist demonstration and riot in France
- 1908Inter Milan — association football club based in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- 1916Battle of Columbus — 1916 battle fought between the United States and Mexican Revolutionary forces under Pancho Villa
- 1925Pink's War — armed confrontation between the British Royal Air Force and Mahsud tribesmen
- 1933Emergency Banking Act — 1933 Act of the United States Congress
- 1945Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina — 1945 overthrow of the French Indochina government by the Japanese
- 19561956 Georgian demonstrations — anti-de-Stalinization protests in the Georgian SSR
- 19571957 Andreanof Islands earthquake — severe earthquake and tsunami in southwestern Alaska, USA
- 1959Barbie — fashion doll brand and media franchise
- 1967TWA Flight 553 — mid-air collision
- 1976Cavalese cable car disaster — accident where the cable supporting an aerial tramway snapped due to an overlap of carrier with traction cables
- 1978Jagorawi Toll Road — toll road in Indonesia
- 1997solar eclipse of March 9, 1997 — 20th-century total solar eclipse
- 2001Nupedia — former free content online encyclopedia
- 2015Villa Castelli helicopter collision — incident involving two two helicopters on 9 March 2015
- 20202020 Italy coronavirus lockdown — quarantine in Italy
- 20222022 South Korean presidential election — Republic of Korea's presidential election
- 2023Hamburg shooting — March 2023 mass shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses' Kingdom Hall in Alsterdorf, Hamburg, Germany
Births · 60
- 1454(Julian date)Amerigo Vespucci — Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
- 1564(Julian date)David Fabricius — German astronomer
- 1568(Julian date)Aloysius Gonzaga — Italian aristocrat and Jesuit seminarian and saint
- 1737Josef Mysliveček — Czech composer
- 1749Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau — French writer, orator and statesman (1749-1791)
- 1753Jean Baptiste Kléber — French general, and architect (1753-1800)
- 1758Franz Joseph Gall — neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain (1758-1828)
- 1763William Cobbett — English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763–1835)
- 1814Taras Shevchenko — Ukrainian poet and artist (1814–1861)
- 1824Leland Stanford — American politician and railroad tycoon (1824-1893)
- 1890Vyacheslav Molotov — Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)
- 1891José Paciano Laurel — President of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945
- 1892Mátyás Rákosi — former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party (1892-1971)
- 1892Vita Sackville-West — English writer, poet, and gardener (1892–1962)
- 1910Samuel Barber — American composer (1910-1981)
- 1911Clara Rockmore — Russian-American musician (1911-1998)
- 1917Algirdas Greimas — Lithuanian-French linguist (1917-1992)
- 1918Mickey Spillane — American crime novelist (1918–2006)
- 1918George Lincoln Rockwell — American founder of the American Nazi Party (1918–1967)
- 1923Walter Kohn — American physicist (1923–2016)
- 1929Zillur Rahman — 19th President of Bangladesh (1929-2013)
- 1930Ornette Coleman — American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer (1930–2015)
- 1931León Febres-Cordero — President of Ecuador (1984 - 1988)
- 1934Yuri Gagarin — Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
- 1940Raul Julia — Puerto Rican actor (1940–1994)
Deaths · 60
- 1202(Julian date)Sverre of Norway — king of Norway
- 1440Frances of Rome — Italian mystic and religious foundress
- 1444(Julian date)Leonardo Bruni — Italian humanist historian (c. 1370–1444)
- 1463(Julian date)Catherine of Bologna — Italian cloistered nun (1413-1463)
- 1566(Julian date)David Rizzio — murder victim, musician, secretary for French correspondence to Mary, Queen of Scots
- 1649James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton — Scottish nobleman and leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1606-1649)
- 1661Cardinal Mazarin — French cardinal and statesman
- 1810Ozias Humphry — British artist (1742-1810)
- 1825Anna Laetitia Barbauld — English author (1743–1825)
- 1847Mary Anning — British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799–1847)
- 1851Hans Christian Ørsted — Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
- 1857Dominic Savio — Italian saint (1842-1857)
- 1873Jules Bourcier — French naturalist (1797-1873)
- 1886William Smith Clark — American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 – 1886)
- 1888Wilhelm I — 19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia (1797–1888)
- 1895Leopold von Sacher-Masoch — Austrian author (1836–1895)
- 1897Sondre Norheim — Norwegian alpine skier (1825–1897)
- 1918Frank Wedekind — German playwright (1864-1918)
- 1925Willard Metcalf — American artist (1858-1925)
- 1926Mikao Usui — founder of Reiki (1865-1926)
- 1942Mykhailo Kravchuk — Ukrainian mathematician (1892–1942)
- 1943Otto Freundlich — German Jewish artist murdered by Nazis in a concentration camp (1878-1943)
- 1954Vagn Walfrid Ekman — Swedish oceanographer
- 1964Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck — German army officer (1870-1964)
- 1969Abdul Munim Riad — Egyptian military officer (1919–1969)
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