On This Day in History for March 9
Events in History
- 141 BC Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne of the Han Dynasty in China and rules for 54 years
- 590 Bahram Chobin is crowned as King Barham VI of Persia
- 1009 First known written mention of Lithuania, in the annals of Quedlinburg
- 1230 Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa
- 1276 Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City
- 1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha, Austria
- 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus' 1st recorded astronomical observation
- 1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral departs Lisbon, Portugal at the head of a 13 ship expedition to India that will also claim Brazil for Portugal
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Amerigo Vespucci
Comte de Mirabeau
Leland Stanford
Vyacheslav Molotov
José P. Laurel
Yuri GagarinWeddings in History
- 1796 French Leader Napoléon Bonaparte (26) marries 1st wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (32), changing her name from Rose
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Hans Christian Ørsted
Carrie Chapman Catt
Menachem Begin
John GutfreundMarch in History
Sinatra Snaps the Fight of the Century
Sinatra does it his way and secures a ringside seat as a photographer for the "Fight of the Century" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
March 8, 1971
One-Man War Finally Ends
Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered on this day – nearly 30 years after the Second World War had ended.
March 9, 1974
Great Blizzard of 1891
A train derailed in England due to the ferocious snowstorm of 1891
March 9, 1891
Mr. Watson come here, I want you
Alexander Graham Bell spoke only briefly by phone to his assistant on this day in 1876, but it proved to be a pioneering moment in telecoms history.
March 10, 1876