Today in History (9th, March)

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Today in History (9th, March)

By James Hughes

YEARDAY EVENT
1497Mar 9Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, made the 1st recorded astronomical observation.
1522Mar 9-16Marten Luther preached his Invocavit.
1566Mar 9David Riccio, Italian singer, secretary, lover of Mary Stuart, was murdered.
1617Mar 9The Treaty of Stolbovo ended the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops.
1734Mar 9The Russians took Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland.
1812Mar 9Swedish Pomerania was seized by Napoleon.
1820Mar 9-11Philippines chased out foreigners and about 125 died.
1842Mar 9Giuseppe Verdi’s 3rd opera “Nabucco,” premiered in Milan. It became his 1st big hit.
1858Mar 9The mailbox was patented.
1861Mar 9First hostile act of the Civil War occurred when Star of the West fires on Sumter, S.C.
1868Mar 9Ambrois Thomas’ opera “Hamlet” premiered in Paris.
1873Mar 9Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded.
1882Mar 9False teeth were patented.
1893Mar 9Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs.
1897Mar 9Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler’s 3rd Symphony in Berlin.
1902Mar 9Will Greer, actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons), was born in Frankfort, Ind.
1905Mar 9Archeologists unearthed the royal tombs of Yua and Tua in Egypt.
1911Mar 9The funding for five new battleships was added to the British military defense budget.
1914Mar 9US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demanded the “Cubanisation of Mexico.”
1915Mar 9The Germans took Grodno on the Eastern Front.
1929Mar 9Marcel Pagnol’s “Marius,” premiered in Paris.
1947Mar 9Keri Hulme, New Zealand novelist (The Bone People), was born.
1957Mar 9An 8.1 earthquake shook the Andreanof Islands, Alaska.
1962Mar 9US “advisors” in South-Vietnam joined the fight.
1972Mar 9Edwin W. Edwards began serving as governor of Louisiana and continued to Mar 10, 1980.
1975Mar 9Iraq launched an offensive against the rebellious Kurds.
1983Mar 9Margaret Heckler was sworn in as secretary of Health and Human Services, the same day Anne M. Burford resigned as head of the embattled Environmental Protection Agency.
1991Mar 9In Serbia Milosevic ordered a crackdown on protests and 2 men were killed in the Belgrade Square of the Republic.
1994Mar 9The U.N. Human Rights Commission condemned anti-Semitism, putting the world body on record for the first time as opposing discrimination against Jews.
1997Mar 9In Albania Pres. Sali Berisha proposed a new government of reconciliation to represent all political parties and offered to set new elections.
1998Mar 9It was reported that the government owned the fastest computer, an Intel ASCI Red unit at the Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque. It was designed to perform 1.5 trillion operations per second. It was planned to develop computers capable of 30 trillion calculations per second by 2001, and 100 trillion per second by 2004.
1999Mar 9Pres. Clinton visited Honduras and paid tribute to US military efforts in rebuilding roads, bridges, schools and clinics following Hurricane Mitch.
2000Mar 9Bill Bradley ended his presidential bid, conceding the Democratic nomination to Vice President Al Gore.
2001Mar 9Federal regulators warned power companies that they may have to refund $69 million to California ratepayers for charging unreasonable prices.
2002Mar 9The Director’s Guild of America voted top honors to director Ron Howard for the film “A Beautiful Mind” starring Russel Crowe. Crowe portrayed John Nash, a Nobel laureate who struggled with mental illness.
2003Mar 9Bill Clinton and Bob Dole made their debut as 2-minute TV commentators on 60 Minutes. Their 1st topic was “tax cuts in times of war.”
2005Mar 9Dan Rather (73) made his final news broadcast with CBS Evening News.
2005Mar 9An Israeli inquiry into the establishment of unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts found widespread complicity of successive Israeli governments and recommended that prosecutors consider investigations some of those involved.
2006Mar 9The French parliament, despite protests by students and unions, enacted a much-contested law to reduce youth unemployment by using contract jobs.
2007Mar 9The US began a series of secret hearings to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders at its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be declared “enemy combatants” who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals.
2007Mar 9US forces killed a suspected militant and captured 16 others in raids across Iraq.
2008Mar 9In Cupertino, Ca., 2 racing cyclists, Kristy Gough (30) and Mat Peterson (29), were killed during a training ride when a deputy sheriff veered into the opposite lane of traffic on Stevens Canyon Road. Officer James Council (27) said he had fallen asleep at the wheel. In 2009 Council was sentenced to 4 months in jail and 800 hours of community service.
2009Mar 9President Barack Obama signed an executive order reversing the US government’s ban on funding stem-cell research today and pledge to “use sound, scientific practice and evidence, instead of dogma” to guide federal policy.
2010Mar 9In Washington, DC, same sex couple began to marry as the district became the 6th place in the US to conduct same sex marriages.
2011Mar 9President Barack Obama said he had chosen Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to be the next US ambassador to China, replacing Jon Huntsman, a Republican who is stepping down and mulling a run for the presidency.
2012Mar 9Ohio state regulators said a dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth and announced tougher regulations for drillers.
2013Mar 9An asteroid as big as a city block shot relatively close by the Earth. Discovered just six days ago, the 460-foot long (140m) Asteroid 2013 ET passed about 600,000 miles from Earth.
2014Mar 9In NYC thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews filled the streets of lower Manhattan to protest Israel’s decision to draft strictly religious citizens into its army.
Source: Timelines of History 

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