What Happened on March 9, 2011

Historical Events

Music History

Bonham's Auctions in New York City conducts sale of Eric Clapton and friends' guitars and amplifiers to benefit Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility he co-founded in 1997, raising over $1.75M

Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights

Famous Deaths

David S. Broder, American journalist (Pulitzer 1973), dies at 81
Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (youngest female Olympic Games medalist in an individual event [12] bronze 200m breaststroke 1936), dies at 86