About March 9
March 9, 2025 is the 68th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 345 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 9
- 1230 –Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
- 1500 –The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
- 1811 –Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
- 1841 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The USS Monitor and Ship CSS fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
- 1896 –Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
- 1925 –Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
- 1933 –Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
- 1944 –World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
- 1945 –The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
- 1954 –McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy”, produced by Fred Friendly.
- 1956 –Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization policy.
- 1957 –A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
- 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.
- 1961 –Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
- 1976 –Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
- 1977 –The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
- 1990 –Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
- 1991 –Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
- 2011 –Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
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