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| March 9th, 2007 (March 09 2007) | Event | The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens. | |
| March 9th, 2007 (March 09 2007) | Death | Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (born in 1951) | |
| March 9th, 2007 (March 09 2007) | Death | Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1921) | |
| March 9th, 2007 (March 09 2007) | Death | Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician (born in unknown) | |
| March 9th, 2006 (March 09 2006) | Event | Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn. | |
| March 9th, 2006 (March 09 2006) | Death | John Profumo, British cabinet minister (born in 1915) | |
| March 9th, 2006 (March 09 2006) | Death | Geir Ivarsoy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (born in 1957) | |
| March 9th, 2005 (March 09 2005) | Death | Chris LeDoux, American country singer (born in 1948) | |
| March 9th, 2005 (March 09 2005) | Death | Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (born in 1912) | |
| March 9th, 2005 (March 09 2005) | Death | Istvan Nyers, Hungarian footballer (born in 1924) | |
| March 9th, 2005 (March 09 2005) | Death | Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler; aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (born in 1924) | |
| March 9th, 2004 (March 09 2004) | Death | Albert Mol, Dutch actor (born in 1917) | |
| March 9th, 2004 (March 09 2004) | Death | Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (born in 1929) | |
| March 9th, 2004 (March 09 2004) | Death | Robert Pastorelli, American actor (born in 1954) | |
| March 9th, 2004 (March 09 2004) | Death | Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (born in 1968) | |
| March 9th, 2003 (March 09 2003) | Death | Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (born in 1933) | |
| March 9th, 2003 (March 09 2003) | Death | Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (born in 1946) | |
| March 9th, 2000 (March 09 2000) | Death | Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (born in 1923) | |
| March 9th, 1999 (March 09 1999) | Death | Harry Somers, Canadian composer (born in 1925) | |
| March 9th, 1997 (March 09 1997) | Death | The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (born in 1972) | |
| March 9th, 1996 (March 09 1996) | Birth | Darsheel Safary, Youngest Indian actor to win filmfare award for best performance | |
| March 9th, 1996 (March 09 1996) | Death | George Burns, American actor and singer (born in 1896) | |
| March 9th, 1994 (March 09 1994) | Death | Charles Bukowski, American writer (born in 1920) | |
| March 9th, 1994 (March 09 1994) | Death | Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (born in 1917) | |
| March 9th, 1994 (March 09 1994) | Death | Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (born in 1928) | |
| March 9th, 1993 (March 09 1993) | Event | Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King s civil rights when they beat him during an arrest. | |
| March 9th, 1993 (March 09 1993) | Death | C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (born in 1909) | |
| March 9th, 1993 (March 09 1993) | Death | Bob Crosby, American bandleader and vocalist (born in 1913) | |
| March 9th, 1992 (March 09 1992) | Death | Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1913) | Menachem Begin Quotes |
| March 9th, 1991 (March 09 1991) | Event | Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets. | |
| March 9th, 1991 (March 09 1991) | Death | Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (born in 1943) | |
| March 9th, 1990 (March 09 1990) | Event | Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position. | |
| March 9th, 1990 (March 09 1990) | Event | Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland and Labrador s approval of the Meech Lake Accord to amend Canada s constitution, effectively killing the Accord. | |
| March 9th, 1989 (March 09 1989) | Event | A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy. | |
| March 9th, 1989 (March 09 1989) | Death | Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (born in 1946) | |
| March 9th, 1987 (March 09 1987) | Birth | Bow Wow, American rapper and actor | |
| March 9th, 1986 (March 09 1986) | Event | United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside. | Allen Tate Quotes |
| March 9th, 1986 (March 09 1986) | Birth | Brittany Snow, American actress | |
| March 9th, 1985 (March 09 1985) | Birth | Parthiv Patel, Indian Cricket Player | |
| March 9th, 1984 (March 09 1984) | Event | The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C. | |
| March 9th, 1984 (March 09 1984) | Birth | Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist | |
| March 9th, 1983 (March 09 1983) | Birth | Clint Dempsey, American footballer | |
| March 9th, 1983 (March 09 1983) | Birth | Maite Perroni, singer in the Latin pop group RBD | |
| March 9th, 1983 (March 09 1983) | Birth | Wayne Simien, American basketball player | |
| March 9th, 1983 (March 09 1983) | Death | Faye Emerson, American actress (born in 1917) | |
| March 9th, 1983 (March 09 1983) | Death | Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1905) | |
| March 9th, 1982 (March 09 1982) | Birth | Paul Ballard, English television presenter | |
| March 9th, 1981 (March 09 1981) | Birth | Antonio Bryant, American football player | |
| March 9th, 1981 (March 09 1981) | Birth | Anders Nohr, Danish footballer | |
| March 9th, 1981 (March 09 1981) | Birth | Clay Rapada, American baseball player | |
| March 9th, 1980 (March 09 1980) | Birth | Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor, film director, sketch artist, and former fashion model. | |
| March 9th, 1979 (March 09 1979) | Birth | Chingy, American rapper | |
| March 9th, 1979 (March 09 1979) | Birth | Melina Perez, WWE Diva | |
| March 9th, 1978 (March 09 1978) | Birth | Lucas Neill, Australian footballer | |
| March 9th, 1977 (March 09 1977) | Event | The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, D.C., killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later. | |
| March 9th, 1977 (March 09 1977) | Birth | Yamila Diaz, Argentine supermodel | |
| March 9th, 1977 (March 09 1977) | Birth | Radek Dvorak, Czech hockey player | |
| March 9th, 1976 (March 09 1976) | Event | Forty-two people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date. | |
| March 9th, 1976 (March 09 1976) | Birth | Thor Halvorssen, human rights activist | |
| March 9th, 1976 (March 09 1976) | Birth | Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host | |
| March 9th, 1975 (March 09 1975) | Event | Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. | |
| March 9th, 1975 (March 09 1975) | Birth | Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer | |
| March 9th, 1975 (March 09 1975) | Birth | Juan Sebastian Veron, Argentine footballer | |
| March 9th, 1975 (March 09 1975) | Death | Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (born in 1888) | |
| March 9th, 1974 (March 09 1974) | Death | Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1915) | |
| March 9th, 1973 (March 09 1973) | Birth | Aaron Boone, American baseball player | |
| March 9th, 1972 (March 09 1972) | Birth | Spencer Howson, Australian radio broadcaster | |
| March 9th, 1972 (March 09 1972) | Birth | Kerr Smith, American actor | |
| March 9th, 1971 (March 09 1971) | Birth | Emmanuel Lewis, American actor | |
| March 9th, 1971 (March 09 1971) | Birth | C Miller, American rapper | |
| March 9th, 1971 (March 09 1971) | Birth | Diego Torres, Argentine singer | |
| March 9th, 1971 (March 09 1971) | Death | Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (born in 1902) | |
| March 9th, 1970 (March 09 1970) | Birth | Martin Johnson, English rugby player | John Martin Quotes |
| March 9th, 1970 (March 09 1970) | Birth | Shannon Leto, American drummer and occasional actor (30 Seconds to Mars) | |
| March 9th, 1969 (March 09 1969) | Birth | Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player | |
| March 9th, 1969 (March 09 1969) | Birth | Stefie Shock, Quebec singer and songwriter | |
| March 9th, 1968 (March 09 1968) | Birth | Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer | |
| March 9th, 1968 (March 09 1968) | Birth | Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative) | |
| March 9th, 1967 (March 09 1967) | Event | Joseph Stalin s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
| March 9th, 1966 (March 09 1966) | Birth | Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi) | |
| March 9th, 1966 (March 09 1966) | Birth | Tony Lockett, Australian Rules Footballer | |
| March 9th, 1966 (March 09 1966) | Birth | Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist | |
| March 9th, 1966 (March 09 1966) | Death | Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (born in 1924) | |
| March 9th, 1965 (March 09 1965) | Birth | Brian Bosworth, American football player | |
| March 9th, 1965 (March 09 1965) | Birth | Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
| March 9th, 1964 (March 09 1964) | Birth | Juliette Binoche, French actress | |
| March 9th, 1964 (March 09 1964) | Birth | Phil Housley, American ice hockey player | |
| March 9th, 1964 (March 09 1964) | Birth | Herbert Fandel, German football referee | |
| March 9th, 1964 (March 09 1964) | Death | Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (born in 1870) | |
| March 9th, 1963 (March 09 1963) | Birth | Sean Salisbury, American football player | |
| March 9th, 1963 (March 09 1963) | Birth | Terry Mulholland, American baseball player | |
| March 9th, 1963 (March 09 1963) | Birth | David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician | |
| March 9th, 1962 (March 09 1962) | Birth | Jan Furtok, Polish footballer | |
| March 9th, 1961 (March 09 1961) | Birth | Mike Leach, American college football coach | |
| March 9th, 1961 (March 09 1961) | Birth | Robert Rechsteiner, US professional wrestler (Rick Steiner) | |
| March 9th, 1961 (March 09 1961) | Birth | Camryn Manheim, American actress | |
| March 9th, 1960 (March 09 1960) | Birth | Linda Fiorentino, American actress | |
| March 9th, 1960 (March 09 1960) | Death | Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (born in 1886) | |
| March 9th, 1959 (March 09 1959) | Event | The Barbie doll debuts. | |
| March 9th, 1958 (March 09 1958) | Birth | Martin Fry, English pop singer (ABC) | |
| March 9th, 1958 (March 09 1958) | Birth | Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer | |
| March 9th, 1957 (March 09 1957) | Event | The magnitude 8.6 1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake and tsunami occurs. | |
| March 9th, 1957 (March 09 1957) | Birth | Mark Mancina, American composer | |
| March 9th, 1957 (March 09 1957) | Birth | Faith Daniels, American journalist | |
| March 9th, 1957 (March 09 1957) | Birth | Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician | |
| March 9th, 1956 (March 09 1956) | Birth | Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General | Shashi Tharoor Quotes |
| March 9th, 1956 (March 09 1956) | Birth | David Willetts, UK Shadow Secretary for Education (Conservative) | |
| March 9th, 1955 (March 09 1955) | Birth | Teo Fabi, Italian racing driver | |
| March 9th, 1955 (March 09 1955) | Birth | Ornella Muti, Italian actress | |
| March 9th, 1954 (March 09 1954) | Event | McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Fred Friendly. | Joseph McCarthy Quotes |
| March 9th, 1954 (March 09 1954) | Birth | Bobby Sands, IRA member (died in 1981) | |
| March 9th, 1954 (March 09 1954) | Death | Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (born in 1912) | |
| March 9th, 1954 (March 09 1954) | Death | V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (born in 1874) | |
| March 9th, 1951 (March 09 1951) | Birth | Michael Kinsley, American journalist and editor | |
| March 9th, 1951 (March 09 1951) | Birth | Helen Zille, South African politician | |
| March 9th, 1950 (March 09 1950) | Birth | Doug Ault, baseball player (died in 2004) | |
| March 9th, 1950 (March 09 1950) | Birth | Danny Sullivan, American race car driver | |
| March 9th, 1949 (March 09 1949) | Birth | Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer | |
| March 9th, 1948 (March 09 1948) | Birth | Jeffrey Osborne, American singer | |
| March 9th, 1948 (March 09 1948) | Birth | Emma Bonino, Italian politician | |
| March 9th, 1947 (March 09 1947) | Birth | Keri Hulme, New Zealandic writer | |
| March 9th, 1946 (March 09 1946) | Birth | Jim Cregan, British rock musician | |
| March 9th, 1945 (March 09 1945) | Event | World War II: Bombing of TokyoAmerican B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people. The attack begins March 9 and continues into March 10. | |
| March 9th, 1945 (March 09 1945) | Birth | Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind) (died in 1988) | |
| March 9th, 1945 (March 09 1945) | Birth | Dennis Rader, American serial killer | |
| March 9th, 1945 (March 09 1945) | Birth | Robin Trower, British rock musician | |
| March 9th, 1943 (March 09 1943) | Birth | Bobby Fischer, American chess player (died in 2008) | Bobby Fischer Quotes |
| March 9th, 1943 (March 09 1943) | Birth | Charles Gibson, American television journalist | |
| March 9th, 1943 (March 09 1943) | Birth | Trish Van Devere, American actress | |
| March 9th, 1943 (March 09 1943) | Birth | Colin Murdock, American voice actor | |
| March 9th, 1942 (March 09 1942) | Birth | John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground) | |
| March 9th, 1942 (March 09 1942) | Birth | Mark Lindsay, American singer/musician (Paul Revere & The Raiders) | |
| March 9th, 1941 (March 09 1941) | Birth | Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (died in 1976) | |
| March 9th, 1940 (March 09 1940) | Birth | Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (died in 1994) | |
| March 9th, 1938 (March 09 1938) | Birth | Lill-Babs, Swedish singer | |
| March 9th, 1937 (March 09 1937) | Birth | Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003 | |
| March 9th, 1937 (March 09 1937) | Birth | Brian Redman, English racing driver | |
| March 9th, 1937 (March 09 1937) | Death | Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (born in 1864) | |
| March 9th, 1936 (March 09 1936) | Birth | Tom Sestak, American football player (died in 1987) | |
| March 9th, 1936 (March 09 1936) | Birth | Mickey Gilley, American musician and singer | Eric Gill Quotes |
| March 9th, 1935 (March 09 1935) | Event | Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| March 9th, 1935 (March 09 1935) | Birth | Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist and businessman | |
| March 9th, 1934 (March 09 1934) | Birth | Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (died in 1968) | Yuri Gagarin Quotes |
| March 9th, 1934 (March 09 1934) | Birth | Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer, and teacher (died in 1999) | |
| March 9th, 1934 (March 09 1934) | Birth | Marlene Streit, Canadian golfer | |
| March 9th, 1934 (March 09 1934) | Birth | Joyce Van Patten, American actress | |
| March 9th, 1933 (March 09 1933) | Event | Great Depression: The United States Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to the Congress. | |
| March 9th, 1933 (March 09 1933) | Birth | Mel Lastman, Canadian politician | Mel Lastman Quotes |
| March 9th, 1933 (March 09 1933) | Birth | Lloyd Price, American singer | |
| March 9th, 1932 (March 09 1932) | Event | The Egyptian University rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigns in protest of the transfer of Dr.Taha Hussein without the University s permission. In 2003, an academic group called "March 9" is established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence. | |
| March 9th, 1932 (March 09 1932) | Event | The first Ford Flathead engine leaves the assembly line at Ford Motor Company. | |
| March 9th, 1932 (March 09 1932) | Birth | Keely Smith, American singer | |
| March 9th, 1932 (March 09 1932) | Birth | Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor | |
| March 9th, 1931 (March 09 1931) | Birth | Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (died in 2007) | |
| March 9th, 1930 (March 09 1930) | Birth | Ornette Coleman, American musician | |
| March 9th, 1929 (March 09 1929) | Birth | Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (died in 2002) | |
| March 9th, 1928 (March 09 1928) | Birth | Gerald Bull, Canadian long range artillery designer (died in 1990) | |
| March 9th, 1925 (March 09 1925) | Event | Pink s War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins. | |
| March 9th, 1924 (March 09 1924) | Event | Italy annexes Fiume. | |
| March 9th, 1923 (March 09 1923) | Birth | Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| March 9th, 1921 (March 09 1921) | Birth | Carl Betz, American actor (died in 1978) | |
| March 9th, 1921 (March 09 1921) | Birth | Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (died in 1998) | |
| March 9th, 1918 (March 09 1918) | Birth | George Lincoln Rockwell, founder and leader of the American Nazi Party (died in 1967) | George Ade Quotes |
| March 9th, 1918 (March 09 1918) | Birth | Mickey Spillane, American writer (died in 2006) | Mickey Spillane Quotes |
| March 9th, 1918 (March 09 1918) | Death | Frank Wedekind, writer | |
| March 9th, 1916 (March 09 1916) | Event | Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17. | |
| March 9th, 1915 (March 09 1915) | Birth | Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (died in 2001) | |
| March 9th, 1910 (March 09 1910) | Event | The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins. | |
| March 9th, 1910 (March 09 1910) | Birth | Samuel Barber, American composer (died in 1981) | |
| March 9th, 1909 (March 09 1909) | Birth | Derk Bodde, American sinologist (died in 2003) | |
| March 9th, 1908 (March 09 1908) | Event | Inter Milan is founded. | |
| March 9th, 1904 (March 09 1904) | Birth | Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (died in 2002) | |
| March 9th, 1902 (March 09 1902) | Birth | Will Geer, American actor (died in 1978) | |
| March 9th, 1900 (March 09 1900) | Birth | Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (died in 1973) | |
| March 9th, 1900 (March 09 1900) | Birth | Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (died in 1948) | |
| March 9th, 1897 (March 09 1897) | Death | Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (born in 1825) | |
| March 9th, 1896 (March 09 1896) | Event | Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa. | |
| March 9th, 1894 (March 09 1894) | Birth | Frank Arnau, German writer (died in 1976) | |
| March 9th, 1892 (March 09 1892) | Birth | Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (died in 1962) | |
| March 9th, 1890 (March 09 1890) | Birth | Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (died in 1986) | Vyacheslav Molotov Quotes |
| March 9th, 1888 (March 09 1888) | Death | William I, German Emperor (born in 1797) | |
| March 9th, 1887 (March 09 1887) | Birth | Phil Mead, English cricketeer (died in 1958) | |
| March 9th, 1887 (March 09 1887) | Birth | Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (died in 1976) | |
| March 9th, 1862 (March 09 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships, a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, results in a draw. | |
| March 9th, 1856 (March 09 1856) | Event | Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama | |
| March 9th, 1856 (March 09 1856) | Birth | Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (died in 1928) | |
| March 9th, 1851 (March 09 1851) | Death | Hans Christian Orsted, Danish physicist (born in 1777) | |
| March 9th, 1847 (March 09 1847) | Event | Mexican-American War: United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz. | |
| March 9th, 1842 (March 09 1842) | Event | Giuseppe Verdi s third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy s foremost opera writers. | |
| March 9th, 1841 (March 09 1841) | Event | The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally. | |
| March 9th, 1839 (March 09 1839) | Birth | Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (died in 1908) | |
| March 9th, 1834 (March 09 1834) | Event | French Foreign Legion is founded. | |
| March 9th, 1825 (March 09 1825) | Birth | Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (died in 1890) | |
| March 9th, 1820 (March 09 1820) | Birth | Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1893) | |
| March 9th, 1815 (March 09 1815) | Birth | David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1886) | |
| March 9th, 1814 (March 09 1814) | Birth | Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (died in 1861) | |
| March 9th, 1808 (March 09 1808) | Death | Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (born in 1739) | Bono Quotes |
| March 9th, 1806 (March 09 1806) | Birth | Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (died in 1872) | |
| March 9th, 1796 (March 09 1796) | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| March 9th, 1776 (March 09 1776) | Event | Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. | Adam Smith Quotes |
| March 9th, 1765 (March 09 1765) | Event | After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide. | Voltaire Quotes |
| March 9th, 1763 (March 09 1763) | Birth | William Cobbett, English journalist and author (died in 1835) | William Cobbett Quotes |
| March 9th, 1758 (March 09 1758) | Birth | Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (died in 1828) | |
| March 9th, 1753 (March 09 1753) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (died in 1800) | |
| March 9th, 1749 (March 09 1749) | Birth | Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (died in 1791) | |
| March 9th, 1737 (March 09 1737) | Birth | Josef Myslivecek, Czech composer (died in 1781) | |
| March 9th, 1720 (March 09 1720) | Birth | Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (died in 1790) | |
| March 9th, 1709 (March 09 1709) | Death | Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat | |
| March 9th, 1661 (March 09 1661) | Death | Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (born in 1602) | |
| March 9th, 1649 (March 09 1649) | Death | James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (born in 1606) | |
| March 9th, 1649 (March 09 1649) | Death | Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (born in 1590) | |
| March 9th, 1629 (March 09 1629) | Birth | Tsar Alexis I of Russia (died in 1676) | |
| March 9th, 1568 (March 09 1568) | Birth | Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (died in 1591) | |
| March 9th, 1566 (March 09 1566) | Event | David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland. | |
| March 9th, 1566 (March 09 1566) | Death | David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (born in 1533) | |
| March 9th, 1564 (March 09 1564) | Birth | David Fabricius, German astronomer (died in 1617) | |
| March 9th, 1500 (March 09 1500) | Event | The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover the sea route to Brazil, already Portuguese since the treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. | |
| March 9th, 1454 (March 09 1454) | Birth | Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (died in 1512) | |
| March 9th, 1440 (March 09 1440) | Death | St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (born in 1384) | |
| March 9th, 1422 (March 09 1422) | Death | Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (born in 1380) | |
| March 9th, 1285 (March 09 1285) | Birth | Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (died in 1318) | |
| March 9th, 1276 (March 09 1276) | Event | Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City. | |
| March 9th, 1230 (March 09 1230) | Event | Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa. | |
| March 9th, 1213 (March 09 1213) | Birth | Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (died in 1271) | |
| March 9th, 1202 (March 09 1202) | Death | King Sverre of Norway | |
| March 9th, 0590 (March 09 0590) | Event | Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. | |
