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Today in History ~ March 9
Events1496 - Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
1500 - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1522 - -16] Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1551 - Emperor Charles V appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1640 - Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris
1661 - Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the chief minister of France, died, leaving King Louis XIV in full control.
1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West Europe
1745 - Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais The couple divorced in 1809.
1798 - Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
1820 - -11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1822 - Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth
1839 - Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 - US Supreme Court rules on the historic Amistad slave ship case [H]
1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan
1844 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Ernani," premieres in Venice
1847 - US forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico (Mexican-American War) 3 miles south of Vera Cruz. It was the largest amphibious landing in U.S. history until WW II.
1862 - During the Civil War, the "Monitor" (Union) and the Virginia (formerly the "Merrimack") (Confederate) clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Va. in the first battle between iron-fortified naval vessels in history (American Civil War). [H]
1864 - Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1868 - Ambrois Thomas' opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
1873 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
1882 - False teeth patented
1893 - Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1897 - Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
1902 - Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
1907 - 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1914 - US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1916 - General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico, (17 killed) [H]
1916 - Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12
1918 - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 - Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1922 - Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in NYC
1929 - Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
1932 - Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
1932 - Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1933 - Congress, called into special session by President Roosevelt, began its "hundred days" of enacting New Deal legislation.
1942 - Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1943 - Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1945 - 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs
1950 - Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC
1953 - Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1954 - CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on "See It Now."
1956 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
1957 - 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
1959 - 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1961 - 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1961 - Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1961 - Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again"
1962 - Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1962 - US "advisors" in South-Vietnam join the fight
1964 - 1st Ford Mustang produced
1964 - Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damag
1967 - Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
1974 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1975 - Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
1976 - 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1977 - About a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington D.C., killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later.
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
1981 - Dan Rather made his debut as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
1985 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1989 - Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
1989 - Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as surgeon general, becoming the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the job.
1991 - Secretary of State James A. Baker III, on a fact-finding mission to seven countries, visited Kuwait following its liberation from Iraq.
1994 - IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
1995 - President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1996 - The space shuttle Columbia landed safely a day late at the Kennedy Space Center, ending a 16-day mission.
Birthdays Today
1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America)
1564 - David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discoved variable star)
1568 - Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga, Italian prince/Jesuit/saint
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general/architect
1824 - Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U
1839 - Felix Huston Robertson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
1839 - Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov
1848 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer
1850 - Alexandre Luigini, composer 1896..1918)
1854 - Eddie (Edwin Fitzgerald) Foy, Sr. (actor, comic, dancer: entertained on the musical stage and in vaudeville for four decades; father of The Seven Little Foys)
1887 - Phil Mead, cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI)
1890 - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN)
1892 - David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
1892 - Frank Puglia, Sicily Italy, actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book)
1892 - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
1892 - Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist/poet (The Land)
1893 - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian muralist/decorator
1893 - Hans Munch, composer
1900 - Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
1902 - Edward Durell Stone, US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
1902 - Will Greer,(Ghere), Frankfort Ind, actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
1905 - Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
1907 - Henry Leland Clarke, composer
1914 - Fred Clark (actor: Sunset Boulevard, Bells Are Ringing, The Caddy)
1918 - Mickey Spillane (Frank Morrison) (writer of Mike Hammer mysteries: I the Jury, My Gun Is Quick, Kiss Me Deadly, Vengeance Is Mine)
1920 - Carl Betz (actor: Deadly Encounter, The Meal, Spinout)
1923 - Andre Courreges (fashion designer)
1923 - James Buckley (politician)
1925 - Billy Ford (singer: group: Billy & Lillie: La Dee Dah, Lucky Ladybug)
1927 - Jackie Jensen (baseball: Boston Red Sox Outfielder: Baseball Writer's Award [1958])
1932 - Keely Smith (Dorothy Keely) (singer: That Old Black Magic, How Are Ya' Fixed for Love?; ex-Mrs. Louis Prima)
1933 - Lloyd Price (songwriter: Lawdy Miss Clawdy; pianist; singer: Stagger Lee, Personality, I'm Gonna Get Married; record label owner; producer; booking agent)
1934 - Joyce Van Patten (actress: Monkey Shines, The Goodbye Guys, Bad News Bears, Breathing Lessons)
1934 - Yuri Gagarin (Russian cosmonaut: the first man to travel in space)
1936 - Marty Ingels (Ingerman) (actor: If It's Tuesday This Must be Belgium)
1937 - Mickey Gilley (American Country Music Entertainer, Male Vocalist and Single of the Year [1976]: Bring It on Home to Me, Stand By Me; You Don't Know Me; owner: Gilley's Club; Jerry Lee Lewis' cousin)
1940 - Raul Julia (actor: The Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman; received four Tony award nominations: Proteus, Mack the Knife)
1941 - Jim Colbert (golfer)
1942 - Bert Campaneris (baseball)
1942 - Mark Lindsay (saxist, singer songwriter: group: Paul Revere & the Raiders: The Great Airplane Strike, Good Thing, Him or Me - What's It Gonna be, Indian Reservation; solo: Arizona, Silver Bird)
1943 - Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1943 - Trish Van Devere (Patricia Dressel) (actress: Hollywood Vice Squad, All God's Children, The Day of the Dolphin, Deadly Currents)
1948 - Jimmie Fadden (singer, musician: harmonica, guitar: group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Mr. Bojangles, An American Dream, Make a Little Magic, Modern Day Romance, Long Hard Road [The Sharecropper's Dream])
1950 - Andy North (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1978 and 1985])
1951 - Spencer Thomas (football)
1971 - Emmanuel Lewis (actor: Webster)
Famous deaths
1566 - David Riccio, Italian singer/secretary/lover of Mary Stuart, murdered
1620 - Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59
1661 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies at 58
1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German organist/composer, dies at 52
1895 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism), dies
1974 - Earl W Sutherland Jr, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies
1986 - Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
1988 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83
1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, dies at 42
1992 - Menachem W Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies at 85
1993 - Bob Crosby, swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79
1994 - Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76
1995 - Ian Ballantine, publisher, dies of heart attack at 79
1996 - Comedian George Burns died in Beverly Hills, Calif., just weeks after turning 100.
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