Today in History
9th March
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9th March |
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| 1074 Pope Gregory VII declared all married Roman Catholic priests to be excommunicated. | ||
| 1452 Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor | ||
| 1454 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer who made many voyages to the New World, born. The name of the continent of America was derived from his name. | ||
| 1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria | ||
| 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation, | ||
| 1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India | ||
| 1551 Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne | ||
| 1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) | ||
| 1566 David Riccio, private secretary of Mary Queen of Scots, was murdered at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, in a coup attempt by Mary's husband Henry. | ||
| 1568 Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga, Italian prince/jesuit/saint was born | ||
| 1617 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa | ||
| 1640 Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris | ||
| 1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth | ||
| 1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe | ||
| 1701 France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance | ||
| 1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower | ||
| 1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena | ||
| 1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston | ||
| 1777 Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist was born | ||
| 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution. | ||
| 1798 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy | ||
| 1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House | ||
| 1822 Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth | ||
| 1831 The French Foreign Legion was founded by King Louis Philippe with its headquarters in Algeria. | ||
| 1839 Prussian govt limits work week for children to 51 hours | ||
| 1841 US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) | ||
| 1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan | ||
| 1844 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice | ||
| 1846 The First Sikh war ended when Kashmir was ceded to the British East India Company by the Treaty of Lahore. | ||
| 1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox | ||
| 1864 Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was appointed commander-in-chief of the Union armies during the American Civil War. | ||
| 1888 Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia from 1861, died. He was succeeded by Frederick III. | ||
| 1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded | ||
| 1881 Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs was born | ||
| 1889 Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV | ||
| 1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs | ||
| 1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna | ||
| 1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades US (17 killed) | ||
| 1916 Germany declares war against Portugal | ||
| 1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12 | ||
| 1916 Germany declared war on Portugal on grounds that Portugal had seized German shipping in Portuguese harbors. | ||
| 1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party | ||
| 1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda | ||
| 1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) | ||
| 1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland | ||
| 1932 Emperor Pu Yi, who had abdicated the Chinese throne in 1912, was installed as president of Japanese-controlled Manchuria. | ||
| 1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin | ||
| 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player | ||
| 1942 After the surrender of Allied forces in Indonesia, the Japanese finally took Java after much jungle fighting. | ||
| 1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began | ||
| 1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps | ||
| 1943 Bobby Fischer, world chess champion, born. In 1972 he became the first American to win the world chess championship when he beat Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in Reykjavik. | ||
| 1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb | ||
| 1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China | ||
| 1945 The U.S. 1st Army captured Bonn. | ||
| 1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang | ||
| 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia | ||
| 1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow | ||
| 1956 Archbishop Makarios, suspected of terrorism by the British, was deported from Cyprus to the Seychelles. | ||
| 1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England | ||
| 1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska | ||
| 1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold | ||
| 1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72 | ||
| 1962 Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians | ||
| 1964 1st Ford Mustang produced | ||
| 1970 A week after Rhodesia became a self-styled republic, the United States announced it was to close its consulate in Salisbury. | ||
| 1976 42 people died in Cavalese in the world's worst cable car disaster; one teen-age girl survived. | ||
| 1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured | ||
| 1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana | ||
| 1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections | ||
| 1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts | ||
| 1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy | ||
| 1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court | ||
| 1991 Yugoslavia deployed tanks in Belgrade after bloody clashes between riot police and tens of thousands of anti-Communist protesters. | ||
| 1992 Former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin died. Once a member of the Irgun Zvai Leumi resistance group and a hardliner concerning the Arabs, he won the Nobel peace prize in 1978 for his part in the Camp David settlement with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. | ||
| 1994 Spanish actor Fernando Rey, who starred in "The French Connection" and the films of Luis Bunuel, died at the age of 76. | ||
| 1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport | ||
| 1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton approved a visa for Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams to enter the United States. | ||
| 1996 George Burns, one of America's best loved and most enduring entertainers, died less than two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. |