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Events from History on March 09

1452 : Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor
1496 : Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
1497 : Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
1500 : Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1522 : -16] Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1551 : Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
1562 : Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1617 : Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
1640 : Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris
1642 : English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth
1697 : Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
1701 : France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1721 : English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
1741 : English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1745 : Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1796 : Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
1798 : Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
1820 : -11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1820 : James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
1822 : Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth
1839 : Prussian govt limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 : US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
1842 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan
1844 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice
1849 : Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres
1858 : Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1860 : 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington
1861 : Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
1862 : "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
1864 : Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1868 : The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
1873 : Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
1882 : False teeth patented
1889 : Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
1889 : Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
1893 : Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1895 : (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1
1895 : Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University
1897 : Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
1897 : Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
1897 : Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
1902 : Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
1907 : 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 : Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
1914 : Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1914 : US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1916 : General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades US (17 killed)
1916 : Germany declares war against Portugal
1916 : Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12
1918 : Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 : Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1918 : Wageningen Agricultural College Neth opens
1922 : Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in NYC
1922 : KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
1923 : Amsterdam taxi strike ended
1923 : Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in NYC
1924 : South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
1926 : Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
1929 : Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
1932 : Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
1932 : Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1933 : Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933 : Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"
1936 : Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1942 : Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1943 : Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
1943 : Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1945 : 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
1945 : Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
1946 : Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1946 : Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
1947 : US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1947 : US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1948 : Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1949 : Brigadier Gen Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1949 : England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1950 : Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC
1952 : Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
1953 : Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1954 : 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)
1954 : Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
1954 : WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 : Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
1956 : Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
1957 : 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
1959 : "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
1959 : 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1959 : Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1961 : 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1961 : Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1961 : Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1961 : Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again"
1962 : Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1962 : US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1963 : Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez
1964 : 1st Ford Mustang produced
1964 : Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla
1964 : Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials
1964 : must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages
1966 : Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
1967 : Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
1968 : 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4
1971 : J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain
1972 : Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
1974 : Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines,
1974 : surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1975 : "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
1976 : 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1976 : Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
1977 : Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA
1977 : Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Wash DC, siege ended Mar 11th
1977 : replacing acting director Knoche
1978 : Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov
1978 : Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS)
1978 : Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR)
1978 : Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
1979 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 : Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1981 : Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1983 : Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London
1983 : Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1984 : Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
1984 : John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time"
1985 : Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1985 : Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
1986 : 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
1986 : NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
1986 : Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1987 : Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
1988 : President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1989 : Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
1989 : Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
1989 : Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 : Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 : Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general
1991 : "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
1991 : 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
1991 : US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
1993 : 19th People's Choice Awards
1993 : 7th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 : Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
1994 : Asteroid #2060 Chiron eclipses m11.9 star
1994 : IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
1995 : Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1995 : Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
1995 : President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1996 : Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India
1996 : Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) v England in WC QF
1996 : STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands

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