2023 Hamburg shooting
2023
A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight..
March-9
Historical Events on March 9
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Giuseppe Conte
Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, announces in a televised address and signs the decree imposing the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the world.
2020
Eurocopter AS350 Ăcureuil
Two Eurocopter AS350 Ăcureuil helicopters collide in mid-air over Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all 10 people on board both aircraft, including French athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, as well as producers and guests for the French TV show Dropped.
2015
2012â2014 Salvadoran gang truce
A truce between the Salvadoran government and gangs in the country goes into effect when 30 gang leaders are transferred to lower security prisons.
2012
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
2011
Nupedia
2000
Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, is launched..
Comet HaleâBopp
Comet HaleâBopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
1997
Chrysler
Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation.
1987
Suharto
President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
1978
1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking
The Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
1977
1976 Cavalese cable car crash
1976
Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the deadliest cable car accident in history..
Mars 7
The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
1974
Trans World Airlines
Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio, following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people.
1967
Korabl-Sputnik 4
Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1961
Belding Hibbard Scribner
Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1960
Barbie
1959
The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York..
1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake
The 8.6 Mw⯠Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
1957
Red Army
Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1956
McCarthyism
McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1954
Bolton Wanderers F.C.
Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
1946
Japanese coup d'Ă©tat in French Indochina
1945
World War II: A coup d'Ă©tat by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power..
Allies of World War II
World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.
1945
Bombing of Tallinn in World War II
World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
1944
World War II
World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
1942
Great Depression
Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1933
Mexican Revolution
1916
Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico..
Inter Milan
Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
1908
American Civil War
American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1862
MexicanâAmerican War
MexicanâAmerican War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
1847
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its premiĂšre performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
1842
Gold
1842
The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush..
Supreme Court of the United States
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1841
Francis Ronalds
Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
1815
Manuel Belgrano
Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of TacuarĂ.
1811
Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1796
The Wealth of Nations
1776
The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published..
Voltaire
After a 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 may have actually died by suicide.
1765
Safavid Iran
Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation.
1701
Pedro Ălvares Cabral
The fleet of Pedro Ălvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
1500
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1230
Anushtegin dynasty
1226
Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi..
Lithuania
First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1009
Posthumous name
Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
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