Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9
This is a list of selected March 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Firebombing of Tokyo -
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Egyptian women protesters during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 -
"Terrific combat between the 'Monitor' & 'Merrimac'" by Currier & Ives -
Cover, The Official Guide Book of the Panama California Exposition San Diego 1915 Official guide book for the Panama-California Exposition
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. | unreferenced section, lots of {{cn}} tags, Amistad is refimprove |
| 1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan. | section too long; refimprove section |
| 1976 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1976) | Too stubby |
| 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, POV-section |
Eligible
- 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- 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 major battle between two powered ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
- 1910 – A massive seventeen-month-long strike action, which at its peak involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
- 1932 – Éamon de Valera, one of the dominant political figures in twentieth 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.
- 1945 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army officers ousted the French rulers of French Indochina.
- 1946 – Thirty-three people were killed in a stampede at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
- 1956 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet military troops suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
- 1959 – Barbie, the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
- 1977 – Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in only two deaths.
- 2010 – The first legal U.S. same-sex marriages south of the Mason–Dixon line took place in Washington, D.C.
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 (2015); National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2015)
- 1009 – The first known record of the name of Lithuania appeared in an entry in the annals of the Quedlinburg Abbey in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
- 1776 – The Wealth of Nations by Scottish political economist Adam Smith (bust pictured) was first published, becoming the first modern work in the field of economics.
- 1842 – Nabucco, an opera by Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi that established his reputation as a composer, premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
- 1915 – The Panama–California Exposition opened in San Diego's Balboa Park, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal.
- 1925 – The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan.
- 1945 – World War II: A bomb raid on Tokyo by American B-29 heavy bombers started a firestorm, killing over 100,000 people.