March 9 is day 69 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Setting Orange, Chaos 40, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.5.15 by the Mayan Long Count
On this day in history:
-. 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral left Lisbon eventually to discover Brazil 1776 – Adam Smith's Pseudo-lscientific propaganda tract, The Wealth of Nations, was publiched. 1815 – Francis Ronalds described the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine. 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. (United States v. The Amistad) 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, premiered 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occured at Rancho San Francisco. (Now NE L.A. county). 1862 – The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw in the first battle between two ironclad warships. 1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike started, with 15,000 coal miners represented by the UMW . 1933 – FDR submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress. 1945 – The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1954 – CBS television broadcast the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy" 1959 – The Barbie doll made its debut 1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implanted a shunt he invented into a patient, allowing the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
- -Born this day in:
-1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, cartographer and explorer 1863 – Mary Harris Armor, suffragist 1892 – Vita Sackville-West, author, poet, and gardener 1918 – Mickey Spillane, crime novelist 1923 – Walter Kohn, physicist and academic 1928 – Keely Smith, singer and actress 1930 – Ornette Coleman, saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer 1933 – Lloyd Price, R&B singer and songwriter 1936 – Mickey Gilley, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1941 – Ernesto Miranda, criminal and police torture victim 1942 – Mark Lindsay, singer, songwriter, saxophonist, and producer 1943 – Bobby Fischer, chess player and author 1945 – Robin Trower, rock guitarist and vocalist 1948 – Jeffrey Osborne, singer and drummer 1959 – Takaaki Kajita, physicist Deaths[edit]
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- -Died this day in: 1444 – Leonardo Bruni, humanist 1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, author, and critic 1847 – Mary Anning, paleontologist 1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist 1895 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, journalist and author 1974 – Harry Womack, singer 1983 – Ulf von Euler, physiologist and pharmacologist 1993 – C. Northcote Parkinson, historian and author 1994 – Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, and short story writer 2010 – Doris Haddock, activist and politician
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Amerigo Vespucci Day Bang Clang Day Barbie Day Get Over It Day National Meatball Day
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