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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Firebombing of Tokyo
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Giuseppe Verdi
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1276 – Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire became a Free Imperial City. | refimprove |
1776 – The Wealth of Nations by Scottish political economist Adam Smith was first published, becoming the first modern work in the field of economics. | Tagged for cleanup |
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. | unreferenced section, lots of {{cn}} tags |
1932 – Éamon de Valera of Fianna Fáil became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, succeeding W.T. Cosgrave of Cumann na nGaedhael. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
1959 – Barbie, the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. | Tagged {{undue}} |
1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan, US. | Tagged for refimprove |
1976 – Cavalese cable-car disaster (1976) | Too stubby |
1991 – A mass rally in Belgrade turned into a riot featuring vicious clashes between the protesters and police, leaving at least two people dead. | POV-section |
Eligible
- 1842 – Nabucco, an opera by Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi (pictured) that established his reputation as a composer, premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
- 1910 – A massive seventeen-month-long strike action, which at its peak would involve 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, US.
- 1925 – The British Royal Air Force began Pink's War, an air-to-ground bombardment against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan, British Raj, without the support of the British Army.
- 1945 – World War II: A bomb raid on Tokyo by American B-29 heavy bombers started a firestorm, killing over 100,000 people.
- 1977 – Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in only two deaths.
- 2010 – The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., took place.
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.