Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9

This is a list of selected March 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Giuseppe Verdi
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  "The Oak of the Golden Dream"
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  Battle of Hampton Roads
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  Costume sketch for the original production of Nabucco
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  Éamon de Valera
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  Bust of Adam Smith
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  The Battle of Hampton Roads, 1862
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  Svetlana Alliluyeva

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
141 BC – Emperor Wu of China's Han Dynasty began a reign that would last over 50 years.	refimprove section
1276 – Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire became a free imperial city.	refimprove section
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had been taken into slavery illegally.	US v Amistad: unreferenced section, lots of CN tags; Amistad: date not in article, lots of CN tags
1945 – World War II: In a coup d'état, Imperial Japanese Army officers ousted the government of French Indochina.	citations needed
1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan.	refimprove section
1976 – 1976 Cavalese cable car crash	cleanup required
1978 – The Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, was inaugurated by President Suharto.	tagged, also out of date
1991 – A mass rally in Belgrade turned into a riot featuring vicious clashes between the protesters and police, leaving at least two people dead.	refimprove
2010 – The first legal U.S. same-sex marriages south of the Mason–Dixon line took place in the District of Columbia.	outdated look
2012 – Israel carried out a targeted air strike in the Gaza Strip, beginning three weeks of clashes with Palestinian militant groups.	neutrality issues
Vyacheslav Molotov |b|1890	unreferenced list of decorations (2022)

Eligible

• 1009 – The first recorded use of the name of Lithuania appeared in Latin in the Annals of Quedlinburg, written in Saxony-Anhalt, present-day Germany.
• 1842 – Awaking from a nap under a tree at Rancho San Francisco, Francisco López made the first popularly documented discovery of gold in California.
• 1842 – Nabucco, an opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi that established his reputation, premiered at La Scala in Milan.
• 1847 – Mexican–American War: The Siege of Veracruz began, the first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States military forces.
• 1862 – American Civil War: In the world's first battle between two ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
• 1910 – A seventeen-month-long strike, which at its peak involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• 1932 – Éamon de Valera (pictured), a dominant political figure in 20th-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
• 1933 – U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 1944 – World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air Forces heavily bombed Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
• 1946 – Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
• 1959 – The popular fashion doll Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
• 1967 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
• 1977 – Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.
• Born/died this day: | Mary Anning |d|1847| Eddie Foy Sr. |b|1856| Mary Harris Armor |b|1863| Herbert Maryon |b|1874| Jane Joseph |d|1929| Qayyum Chowdhury |b|1932| Yuri Gagarin |b|1934| Takaaki Kajita |b|1959| The Notorious B.I.G. |d|1997| George Singh |d|1999

Notes

• La traviata (another Verdi opera) appears on March 6, so Nabucco should not appear in the same year.

March 9

Princess Kaʻiulani

• 1776 – Scottish political economist Adam Smith's book The Wealth of Nations, the first modern work in economics, was published.
• 1891 – Kaʻiulani (pictured) was appointed heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
• 1925 – The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan, in what is now Pakistan.
• 1956 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet troops suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
• 1957 – The M_w 8.6 Andreanof Islands earthquake struck Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.

• Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (d. 886)
• Catherine of Bologna (d. 1463)
• Friederike Caroline Neuber (b. 1697)
• Dick Walker (b. 1938)

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