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{{*mp}} [[1944]] – [[World War II]]: As part of the [[Battle of Narva (1944)|Battle of Narva]], the [[Soviet Air Forces]] '''[[Bombing of Tallinn in World War II|heavily bombed]]''' [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], killing up to 800 people, mostly [[civilian]]s. |
{{*mp}} [[1944]] – [[World War II]]: As part of the [[Battle of Narva (1944)|Battle of Narva]], the [[Soviet Air Forces]] '''[[Bombing of Tallinn in World War II|heavily bombed]]''' [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], killing up to 800 people, mostly [[civilian]]s. |
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{{*mp}} [[1946]] – Thirty-three people '''[[Burnden Park disaster|were killed]]''' in a [[stampede]] at [[Burnden Park]], a [[association football|football]] stadium in [[Bolton]], [[England]]. |
{{*mp}} [[1946]] – Thirty-three people '''[[Burnden Park disaster|were killed]]''' in a [[stampede]] at [[Burnden Park]], a [[association football|football]] stadium in [[Bolton]], [[England]]. |
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{{*mp}} [[1956]] – [[Soviet Armed Forces|Soviet military]] troops '''[[1956 Georgian demonstrations|suppressed]]''' mass demonstrations |
{{*mp}} [[1956]] – In [[Tbilisi]], [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgia]], [[Soviet Armed Forces|Soviet military]] troops '''[[1956 Georgian demonstrations|suppressed]]''' mass demonstrations against [[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|Soviet leader]] [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s [[de-Stalinization]] policy. |
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Revision as of 02:27, 9 March 2011
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March 9: Ash Wednesday/Start of Lent in Western Christianity (2011)
- 1009 – The first known record of the name of Lithuania appeared in an entry in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg (in modern Germany).
- 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- 1862 – American Civil War: In the world's first major battle between two powered ironclad warships (pictured), the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
- 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 stampede at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
- 1956 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet military troops suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.