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Birthday March 09, 1454 Amerigo Vespucci, This could be Vespucciland |
Birthday March 09, 1824 Leland Stanford, Gov, Sen, found Stanford U |
Birthday March 09, 1890 V.M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister |
Birthday March 09, 1902 Edward Durell, Stone, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi) |
Birthday March 09, 1910 Samuel Barber, composer |
Birthday March 09, 1918 Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (I, the Jury) |
Birthday March 09, 1923 James Buckley, (R), former NY sen |
Birthday March 09, 1934 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1) |
Birthday March 09, 1934 Joyce Van Patten |
Birthday March 09, 1935 Keely Smith, Norfolk Va |
Birthday March 09, 1943 Bobby Fischer, world chess champion (1972-75) |
Birthday March 09, 1943 Trish Van Devere, Actress |
Birthday March 09, 1943 Bobby Fischer born |
Birthday March 09, 1971 Emmanuel Lewis, TV (Webster) |
History March 09, 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation - |
History March 09, 1661 Cardinal Jules Mazarin - chief minister of France - died |
History March 09, 1781 Spanish siege of Pensacola begins |
History March 09, 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais |
History March 09, 1822 Charles Graham of NY granted patent for artificial teeth |
History March 09, 1841 Supreme Court rules on Amistad mutiny |
History March 09, 1847 U.S. forces land at Vera Cruz |
History March 09, 1860 1st Japanese-US ambassador |
History March 09, 1862 Monitor (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads |
History March 09, 1862 Battle of the Ironclads |
History March 09, 1862 U.S.S. Monitor battles C.S.S. Virginia |
History March 09, 1913 Virginia Woolf delivers her first novel, The Voyage Out |
History March 09, 1916 Pancho Villa raids U.S. |
History March 09, 1916 Pancho Villa attacks Columbus, New Mexico |
History March 09, 1916 Germany declares war on Portugal |
History March 09, 1932 China's last emperor is Japanese puppet |
History March 09, 1945 Firebombing of Tokyo |
History March 09, 1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen McCarthy (See it Now) |
History March 09, 1954 Republican senators criticize Joseph McCarthy |
History March 09, 1954 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy |
History March 09, 1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit |
History March 09, 1965 Marines continue to land at Da Nang |
History March 09, 1970 Marines hand over control of I Corps region |
History March 09, 1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent - Blues 4-0 |
History March 09, 1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io) |
History March 09, 1981 Japanese power plant leaks radioactive waste |
History March 09, 1985 First Adopt-a-Highway sign goes up |
History March 09, 1996 Comedian George Burns dies at age 100 |
History March 09, 1997 Rapper Notorious B.I.G. is killed in Los Angeles |
History March 09, 1997 Christopher Wallace—a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.—is killed in Los Angeles |