March 9

March 9 is the 68th (sixty-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 69th in leap years. There are 297 days left to end the year.

Events

• 141 B.C.: Liu Che, posthumously known as the emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
• 590: Bahram VI is crowned king of Persia.
• 1230: Battle of Klokotnitsa, the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of the Aspiration.
• 1276: Augsburg becomes a free city of the Holy Empire.
• 1500: zarpa de Lisboa towards Calcuta the fleet commanded by the Portuguese Pedro Álvarez Cabral, who in the end reaches the coast of Brazil.
• 1565: in Quito (Ecuador) is founded the Royal Hospital of Mercy and Charity, the present Hospital of San Juan de Dios.
• 1595: in the province of Chiquimula (Guatemala) the image of the Black Crucified Christ reaches the city of Esquipulas.
• 1687: In the village of Santafé de Bogotá (in present Colombia), at 22:00, the Ruido Time, a very strong fragor of unknown origin, accompanied by a strong smell of sulfur, generates panic in the inhabitants of the city.
• 1781: In Florida, Bernardo de Gálvez sitia the strong George.
• 1796: They marry in France Napoleon Bonaparte and Josefina de Beauharnais.
• 1809: Juan Clarós is about to release Barcelona from the Napoleonic troops, but a temporary one prevents it.
• 1811: Paraguayan general Manuel Cabañas, of the realistic forces, defeats the army of Manuel Belgrano in the Battle of Tacuarí.
• 1831: in France the Foreign Legion is created.
• 1839: The peace treaty between Mexico and France is signed in Veracruz, which ends the Cake War.
• 1842: the opera of Giuseppe Verdi is premiered Nabucco, in La Scala de Milan.
• 1846: The first Anglo-Sij war that confronted the British Empire with the Sikh Kingdom is over.
• 1862: naval battle of the ironclads, armoured ships of the American War of Secession. After the southern attack with the USS Merrimack on Hampton Roads, Virginia, the northerners send the USS Monitor battleship. The result was undecided but the northerners stayed with the bay.
• 1868: in Paris the opera Hamlet is premiered.
• 1873: The Royal Montada Police is founded in Canada.
• 1902: in Madrid, the Real Madrid football club celebrates its first match in an explanade that was on the avenue of the bullring.
• 1908: in Milan (Italy) the Football Club Internazionale Milano is founded.
• 1916: Pancho Villa performs a military incursion against the city of Columbus in New Mexico.
• 1916: Germany declares war on Portugal.
• 1917: workers' demonstration in St.Petersburg, against which the Cossacks resist to carry, in a prelude to the Russian revolution.
• 1921: founded the North Central Club of Salta, Argentina.
• 1923: In the Soviet Union, the disease compels Lenin to definitively abandon power.
• 1924: Italy annexes Fiume to its territory.
• 1932: the Government of the free State of Ireland, chaired by Éamon de Valera, is constituted.
• 1933: In the United States, within the framework of the Great Depression, Congress begins its 100-day debate to vote on the New Deal legislation, proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1936: the Dominican Republic and Haiti sign a border treaty
• 1937: the poet Miguel Hernández is married.
• 1938: Enactment of the Labour Force by the Government of General Franco.
• 1944: General Pedro Pablo Ramírez resigns as president of the Argentine Republic.
• 1945: the Japanese militaryly occupy the French Indochina. American B-29 aircraft attack Tokyo with firebombs killing about 100,000 people.
• 1954: Journalist Edward R. Murrow, in his See it now program, presents a complete report on the excesses committed by Senator Joseph McCarthy during the interrogations carried out when he was chairman of the Anti-American Activities Committee.
• 1955: Nikita Jrushchov is appointed secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1957: There is a devastating 8.6 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands that causes a tsunami.
• 1959: Barbie, the most famous doll in the world is for sale.
• 1961: Sputnik 9 takes the bitch Chernushka into space.
• 1973: Spain and China restore diplomatic relations.
• 1979: In Copiapó (Chile) the Atacama Regional Club is founded.
• 1990: In the United States, he took oath as General Surgeon (Health Minister) Dr. Antonia Novello, the first woman and Hispanic woman in this position.
• 1999: Chile founded the Football Club Deportes Copiapó.
• 2002: In Jerusalem, a Palestinian terrorist explodes a bomb that bore his body, killing 11 people and wounding 54 in a café.
• 2008: in the general elections held in Spain he wins the PSOE so he is reelected president of government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Final result of elections in seats: PSOE 169 - PP 154 - Other 27.
• 2014: Second round of presidential elections in El Salvador.
• 2015: The air accident of Villa Catelli occurred. 10 people die after crashing into the air two helicopters while recording the survival program Dropped. Among the victims were several French elite athletes: The Camille Muffat swimmer, the boxer, Alexis Vastine and the regatist Florence Arthaud
• 2016: Total Sun eclipse, seen from Southeast Asia and Australia.
• 2020: In Mexico, the national unemployment of women is carried out to raise awareness of femicides and violence against women.

Births

• 1190: Pedro González Telmo, a Spanish Catholic priest (f. 1246).
• 1213: Hugo IV de Borgoña, noble French (f. 1272).
• 1285: Japanese Go-Nijō Emperor (f. 1308).
• 1291: Cangrande della Scala, Italian nobleman (f. 1329).
• 1454: Américo Vespucio, explorer and Italian navigator (f. 1512).
• 1522: Juan de Castellanos, poet, chronist and Spanish priest (f. 1607).
• 1533: Esteban de Garibay, historian and Spanish genealogist (f. 1599).
• 1564: David Fabricius, German astronomer (f. 1617).

Luis Gonzaga.

• 1568: Luis Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit religious (f. 1591).
• 1589: Baltasar Moscoso and Sandoval, Spanish cardinal (f. 1665).
• 1695: Martin Sarmiento, writer and Spanish Benedictine scholar (f. 1772).
• 1734: Francisco Bayeu, a Spanish painter (f. 1795).
• 1737: Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (f. 1781).
• 1749: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, a French politician (f. 1791).
• 1750: Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, German painter (f. 1812).
• 1753: Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general (f. 1800).
• 1758: Franz Joseph Gall, German physiologist (f. 1828).
• 1809: Bettino Ricasoli, Italian politician (f. 1880).
• 1811: Emilie de Villeneuve, a French religious (f. 1854).
• 1814: Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and painter (f. 1861).
• 1817: Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Dominican politician (f. 1861).
• 1856: Edward Goodrich Acheson, American inventor (f. 1931).
• 1859: Peter Altenberg, Austrian writer (f. 1919).
• 1862: Carl H. Eigenmann, American ictologist (f. 1927).
• 1865: João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer and folklorist (f. 1916).
• 1879: Carlo Tresca, Italian anarchist (f. 1943).
• 1881: Ernest Bevin, British politician and trade unionist (f. 1951)
• 1881: José P. Laurel, Filipino politician, President of the Philippines (1943-1945) (f. 1959).
• 1883: Umberto Saba, Italian poet (f. 1957).
• 1888: Raquel Meller, Spanish singer and actress (f. 1962).

Viacheslav Mólotov.

• 1890: Viacheslav Mólotov, a Soviet politician (f. 1986).
• 1892: Vita Sackville-West, British poet and novelist (f. 1962).
• 1898: Bobby Vernon, American actor (f. 1939).
• 1900: Howard H. Aiken, American engineer (f. 1973).
• 1900: Otto Maria Carpeaux, essayist, literary critic and Brazilian nationalized Austrian journalist (f. 1978).
• 1900: Tomislav II, Croatian Duke (f. 1948).
• 1902: Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (f. 1988)
• 1904: A. H. M. Jones, British historian (f. 1970).
• 1906: David Smith, American sculptor (f. 1965)
• 1907: Mircea Eliade, a Romanian philosopher and novelist (f. 1986).
• 1910: Samuel Barber, American composer (f. 1981).
• 1910: José Ignacio Palma, Chilean politician (f. 1988).
• 1916: Carles Fontserè, Spanish anarchist (f. 2007).
• 1916: Klavdia Necháieva, Soviet military aircraft (f. 1942).
• 1918: Mickey Spillane, American writer (f. 2006).
• 1923: Walter Kohn, American nationalized Austrian scientist, nobel chemistry award in 1998 (f. 2016).
• 1926: Celso Garrido Lecca, Peruvian composer.
• 1927: Jaime de Armiñán, writer and Spanish filmmaker.
• 1928: Antonio Molina, Spanish actor and flamenco artist (f. 1992).
• 1929: Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese physician and politician, President of Guyana between 1985 and 1992 (f. 2002).
• 1929: Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, President of Bangladesh between 2009 and 2013 (f. 2013).
• 1930: Ornette Coleman, American musician (f. 2015).

León Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra.

• 1931: Leon Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra, Ecuadorian politician, president of Ecuador between 1984 and 1988 (f. 2008).
• 1932: Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer (f. 2019).
• 1933: Josefina Bilbao, Chilean politics.
• 1934: Raúl Calviño, Argentinian locutor (f. 2001).
• 1934: Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (f. 1968).
• 1935: Andrew Viterbi, American electronic engineer and businessman.
• 1937: Bernard Landry, Québec politician.
• 1937: Brian Redman, British motor racing pilot.
• 1940: Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (f. 1994).
• 1941: Manuel Galiana, Spanish actor.
• 1941: Antonio Gasalla, Argentine comic actor.
• 1942: Jim Beach, British manager and Queen band attorney.
• 1942: John Cale, British musician, of the band The Velvet Underground.
• 1943: Bobby Fischer, American chess player (f. 2008).
• 1944: Polo Polo Polo, Mexican comedian.
• 1945: Katja Ebstein, German singer.
• 1945: Robin Trower, British guitarist, Procol Harum.
• 1945: Dennis Rader, American serial killer.
• 1948: Emma Bonino, Italian politics.
• 1949: Isabel Tocino, Spanish politics.
• 1950: Diana Turbay, a Colombian lawyer and journalist. (f. 1991).
• 1950: Danny Sullivan, American motor racing pilot.
• 1952: Uliana Semenova, Latvian basketball player.
• 1954: Bobby Sands, a British politician and activist.
• 1955: Teo Fabi, Italian Formula 1 pilot.
• 1955: Ornella Muti, Italian actress.
• 1956: Alejandro Giammattei, Guatemalan physician and politician, President of Guatemala since 2020.
• 1957: Mark Mancina, American composer.
• 1957: Mona Sahlin, Swedish politics.
• 1957: Marco Muñoz, Mexican actor.
• 1959: Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist.
• 1960: Linda Fiorentino, American actress.
• 1960: Zelimir Obradovic, Serbian basketball coach.
• 1964: Juliette Binoche, French actress.
• 1965: Elías Antonio Saca, Salvadoran politician.
• 1965: Domingo Hernández Lárez, Venezuelan military.
• 1967: Harry Geithner, Colombian actor and businessman.
• 1967: Aura Cristina Geithner, Colombian actress and model.
• 1968: Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer.
• 1969: India, Puerto Rican singer.
• 1969: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player.
• 1970: Claudia López Hernández, Colombian politician and activist. current Mayor of Bogotá
• 1970: Martin Johnson, British former wart.
• 1970: Shannon Leto, American drummer, 30 Seconds to Mars.
• 1971: Diego Torres, Argentine singer and actor.
• 1971: Johan Edlund, Swedish musician, of the Tiamat band.
• 1971: Juanmi García, Spanish footballer.
• 1972: Kerr Smith, American actor.
• 1972: Nacho Huett, actor of Venezuelan television.
• 1974: Ismael Serrano, Spanish singer.
• 1974: Sophie Schütt, German actress.
• 1975: Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer.
• 1975: Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine soccer player.
• 1976: Francisco Mancebo, Spanish cyclist.
• 1978: Lucas Neill, Australian footballer.
• 1979: Melina Pérez, American professional fighter.
• 1979: Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan actor.
• 1980: Chingy, American rapper.
• 1980: Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor, director and model.
• 1981: Goran Rubil, Croatian footballer.
• 1983: Clint Dempsey, American footballer.
• 1983: Maite Perroni, Mexican actress and singer.
• 1983: Wayne Simien, American basketball player.
• 1984: Abdoulay Konko, French footballer.
• 1985: Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan motor racing pilot.
• 1986: Brittany Snow, American actress.
• 1987: Bow Wow, American actor and rapper.
• 1987: Pirmin Schwegler, Swiss footballer.
• 1989: Taeyeon, South Korean singer, group leader Girls' Generation.
• 1989: Yūdai Chiba, Japanese actor and model.
• 1989: Klariza Clayton, British actress.
• 1990: Daley Blind, Dutch footballer.
• 1991: Giannis Anestis, Greek footballer.
• 1992: María Eugenia Suárez, actress, singer and Argentine model.
• 1992: João Pedro, Brazilian footballer.
• 1993: Zakaria Labyad, Dutch footballer.
• 1993: Éider Arévalo, a Colombian athlete.
• 1993: Stefano Sturaro, Italian footballer.
• 1993: Suga, South Korean rapper, member of the BTS group.
• 1995: Angel Correa, Argentine soccer player.
• 1997: João Carvalho, Portuguese footballer.
• 1998: Soojin, South Korean singer, former member of the group (G)I-dle.
• 1998: Jan Bamert, Swiss footballer.
• 1999: Aniek Nouwen, a Dutch footballer.
• 2001: Somi, South Korean singer, soloist.
• 2018: Adriana, Princess of Sweden.

Deaths

• 1403: Bāyāzīd I, Sultan Ottoman Empire.
• 1661: Julio Mazarino, politician, cardinal, diplomat and French ruler (n. 1602).
• 1806: Federico Gravina, Spanish navy.
• 1811: Pedro Ríos, Tambor de Tacuarí (12), a child soldier of Argentina (n. 1798).
• 1847: Mary Anning, British paleontologist (n. 1799).
• 1851: Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist, electromagnetism discoverer.
• 1857: Domingo Savio (14), Italian religious canonized by the Catholic Church (n. 1842).
• 1881: Carolina Amalia de Augustenburg, queen consorte de Denmark (n. 1796).
• 1888: William I of Germany, Prussian emperor.
• 1891: Amalie Dietrich, a German naturalist (n. 1821)
• 1899: Enrique Villarroya and Llorens, Spanish politician, Marquis (n. 1843).
• 1926: Mikao Usui, creator of the Reiki.
• 1929: Irineo Villarreal, Mexican military (n. 1887).
• 1951: Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, Spanish military.
• 1952: Alexandra Kollontai, a socialist, revolutionary and a Russian feminist (n. 1872).
• 1952: Gilberto Owen, Mexican writer (n. 1904)
• 1955: Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress of Czechoslovak origin (n. 1925).
• 1964: José Capuz, Spanish sculptor.
• 1964: Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German military.
• 1981: Max Delbrück, German physicist and biologist, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969.
• 1981: Telesforo Monzón, Spanish politician.
• 1983: José María Otero de Navascués, spanish physicist (n. 1907).
• 1988: Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German chancellor.
• 1989: Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer.
• 1990: Carmelo Viñas and Mey, professor, researcher and Spanish academic.
• 1991: Luis Gómez-Acebo, Spanish aristocrat (n. 1934).
• 1992: Menájem Beguín, Israeli prime minister.
• 1993: Cyril Northcote Parkinson, British historian.
• 1993: Edwin Vásquez Cam, Peruvian shooter (n. 1922).
• 1994: Charles Bukowski, American writer and poet (n. 1920)
• 1994: Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (n. 1917).
• 1995: Paco Jamandreu, designer and Argentine actor (n. 1919).
• 1996: George Burns, American actor (n. 1896).
• 1997: Jean-Dominique Bauby, a French journalist, survivor of a stroke (f. 1952).
• 1997: Notorious B.I.G., American rapper; assassinated (n. 1972).
• 2002: Carlos Casares, Spanish narrator and essayist (n. 1941).
• 2003: José Manuel Blecua Teijeiro, Spanish philologist (n. 1913).
• 2003: Francisco Perelló, entrepreneur and Spanish sports leader (n. 1917).
• 2006: Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian computer (n. 1957).
• 2007: Pedro Beltrán, Spanish writer and actor (n. 1927).
• 2010: Teresa Gutiérrez, Colombian actress (n. 1928).
• 2010: Ricardo Jurado, Argentinean announcer (n. 1926).
• 2011: David S. Broder, American journalist (n. 1929).
• 2012: José Tomás Sánchez, Cardinal Filipino (n. 1920).
• 2014: Carlos Moreno, Argentine actor (n. 1938).
• 2015: Camille_Muffat, Florence Arthaud and Alexis Vastine (n 1989, 1957, 1986).
• 2016: Sergio Arellano Stark, Chilean military (n. 1921).
• 2017: Howard Hodgkin, British painter and printer (n. 1932).
• 2018: Oskar Gröning, military and criminal of German war (n. 1921).
• 2019: Bernard Binlin Dadié, ivory writer (n. 1916).
• 2020: Richard Guy, British mathematician (n. 1916).
• 2020: José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer and journalist (n. 1930).
• 2021: Isela Vega, Mexican actress (n. 1939).
• 2021: Erling Sven Lorentzen, shipowner, shipping and industrial Norwegian-Brazilian (n. 1923).

Celebrations

• SpainSpain: Fuenlabrada, Community of Madrid: Santa Juana Day (Tortilla Day).

Catholic saints list

• Saint Francisca of Rome(f. 1440)
• forty martyrs of Sebaste (f. 320)
• San Paciano de Barcelona, bishop (f. 390)
• San Vital de Castronovo, monk (f. 993)
• San Bruno de QuerfurtBishop and martyr (f. 1009)
• Saint Catherine of Bologna, virgin (f. 1463)
• Holy Sunday (f. 1857)
• Saints Peter Ch’oe Hyong and John Baptist Chon Chang-unmartyrs (f. 1866)