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Events on the 9th of March in history

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09 Mar 0141 Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
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09 Mar 0632 The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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09 Mar 1009 First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
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09 Mar 1230 Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
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09 Mar 1276 Augsburg becomes a Free imperial city.
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09 Mar 1452 Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German Emperor
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09 Mar 1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
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09 Mar 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation
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09 Mar 1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
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09 Mar 1500 The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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09 Mar 1551 Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
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09 Mar 1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
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09 Mar 1566 David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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09 Mar 1617 Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
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09 Mar 1640 Pierre Corneilles "Horace, " premieres in Paris
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09 Mar 1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth
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09 Mar 1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
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09 Mar 1701 France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance
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09 Mar 1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
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09 Mar 1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
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09 Mar 1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
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09 Mar 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.
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09 Mar 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
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09 Mar 1796 Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
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09 Mar 1798 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
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09 Mar 1811 Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
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09 Mar 1822 Charles Graham of New York patents artificial teeth
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09 Mar 1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
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09 Mar 1841 US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
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09 Mar 1841 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
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09 Mar 1842 The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
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09 Mar 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.
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09 Mar 1847 Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
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09 Mar 1849 Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, " premieres
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09 Mar 1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
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09 Mar 1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington
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09 Mar 1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
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09 Mar 1862 "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
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09 Mar 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.
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09 Mar 1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
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09 Mar 1868 The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
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09 Mar 1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
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09 Mar 1882 False teeth patented
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09 Mar 1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
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09 Mar 1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
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09 Mar 1896 Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.
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09 Mar 1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
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09 Mar 1897 Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
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09 Mar 1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
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09 Mar 1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
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09 Mar 1908 Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
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09 Mar 1910 The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
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09 Mar 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as Director of Bataafsche Petroleum Company
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09 Mar 1914 US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
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09 Mar 1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades US (17 killed)
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09 Mar 1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
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09 Mar 1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12
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09 Mar 1916 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
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09 Mar 1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
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09 Mar 1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
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09 Mar 1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
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09 Mar 1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
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09 Mar 1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
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09 Mar 1923 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
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09 Mar 1925 Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
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09 Mar 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman Mayor of Seattle
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09 Mar 1932 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland
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09 Mar 1932 Former Chinese Emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
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09 Mar 1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin
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09 Mar 1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days"
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09 Mar 1933 Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
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09 Mar 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
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09 Mar 1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
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09 Mar 1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
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09 Mar 1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
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09 Mar 1944 World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
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09 Mar 1944 World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
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09 Mar 1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
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09 Mar 1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
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09 Mar 1945 World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
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09 Mar 1945 The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
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09 Mar 1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia / Semarang
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09 Mar 1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
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09 Mar 1946 Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
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09 Mar 1947 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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09 Mar 1947 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
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09 Mar 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
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09 Mar 1949 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
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09 Mar 1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
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09 Mar 1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York City
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09 Mar 1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
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09 Mar 1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
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09 Mar 1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)
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09 Mar 1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
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09 Mar 1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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09 Mar 1954 McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
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09 Mar 1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles
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09 Mar 1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
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09 Mar 1956 Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
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09 Mar 1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
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09 Mar 1957 A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
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09 Mar 1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
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09 Mar 1959 "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
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09 Mar 1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
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09 Mar 1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
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09 Mar 1960 Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
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09 Mar 1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
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09 Mar 1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
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09 Mar 1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
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09 Mar 1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and"Never Again"
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09 Mar 1961 Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
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09 Mar 1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
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09 Mar 1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
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09 Mar 1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
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09 Mar 1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
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09 Mar 1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages
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09 Mar 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black Governor of Federal Reserve Board
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09 Mar 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.
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09 Mar 1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain
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09 Mar 1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
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09 Mar 1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
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09 Mar 1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
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09 Mar 1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
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09 Mar 1976 Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
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09 Mar 1977 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th Director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
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09 Mar 1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington DC, siege ended March 11th
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09 Mar 1977 The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
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09 Mar 1978 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov
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09 Mar 1978 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina andZaitsev (URS)
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09 Mar 1978 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR)
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09 Mar 1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
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09 Mar 1980 Flemish / Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
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09 Mar 1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
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09 Mar 1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
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09 Mar 1984 John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time"
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09 Mar 1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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09 Mar 1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
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09 Mar 1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
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09 Mar 1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
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09 Mar 1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger Astronauts
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09 Mar 1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
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09 Mar 1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
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09 Mar 1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
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09 Mar 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds)
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09 Mar 1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
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09 Mar 1989 Financially troubled Eastern Air Lines files for bankruptcy.
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09 Mar 1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic / female US surgeon general
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09 Mar 1991 "Les Miserables, " opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
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09 Mar 1991 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
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09 Mar 1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
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09 Mar 1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
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09 Mar 1991 Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
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09 Mar 1993 7th Soul Train Music Awards
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09 Mar 1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
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09 Mar 1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
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09 Mar 1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
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09 Mar 1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
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09 Mar 1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
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09 Mar 1996 Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs. England in WC QF
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09 Mar 1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
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09 Mar 1997 Senior Golf Slam
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09 Mar 1997 Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open
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09 Mar 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.
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09 Mar 2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
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09 Mar 2015 Two helicopters collided near Villa Castelli, Argentina killing 10 people.
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