On this day in History - Mar. 09

• 1213- Hugh IV,was born Duke of Burgundy.
• 1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City .
• 1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, was born, explorer and cartographer (d. 1512).
• 1500 - A armada de Pedro Álvares Cabral zarpa de Lisboa na viagem que conduziu à descoberta do Brasil.
• 1513 - Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici é eleito papa com o nome Leão X .
• 1697 - Friederike Caroline Neuber, was born, actress (d. 1760) .
• 1718 - Foi permitida a escravização dos índios antropófagos do Brasil.
• 1734 - Nace el pintor Francisco Bayeu y Subías.
• 1749 - Honore Mirabeau, was born, politician (d. 1791) .
• 1763 - William Cobbett, was born, journalist and author (d. 1835) .
• 1765 - Judges in Paris find Jean Calas innocent, (after having been tortured and executed in 1762) of murdering his son, Marc-Antoine, who had committed suicide), mainly because Voltaire wrote a series of articles calling for the case to be re-opened.
• 1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1808 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder,dies, architect (b. 1739) .
• 1831 - A França de Luis Filipe de Orleans cria a Legião Estrangeira, com tropas estrangeiras anteriormente ao serviço do rei Carlos X, deposto no ano anterior.
• 1833 - Francisco Martins Sarmento,nasce, arqueólogo português (m. 1899) .
• 1838 - Portugal : Revolta do Arsenal. Sublevação de setembristas radicais com o objectivo de impor a demissão de personalidades moderadas do governo. Durará até dia 13 de Março.
• 1841 - 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.
• 1842 - Estreia no Scala de Milão da ópera de Verdi "Nabucco", o primeiro grande êxito do músico.
• 1847 - Mexican-American War: United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.
• 1856 - Eddie Foy, was born, singer, dancer, vaudeville performer (d. 1928) .
• 1862 - American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships - In a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia the USS Monitor fights the CSS Virginia to a draw.
• 1883 - Umberto Saba [Umberto Poli],nascimento de em Trieste, poeta italiano (m. 1957) .
• 1879 - Nace Otto Hahn, químico alemán, descubridor de la posibilidad de desintegración del átomo de uranio.
• 1888 - Morreu Wilhelm I, da Prússia .
• 1890 - Nasceu o revolucionário russo Mikhailovich Molotov .
• 1892 - Vita Sackville-West,was born, writer, gardener (d. 1962).
• 1895 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, dies Austrian writer (Masochism).
• 1900 - Howard Aiken,was born, computing pioneer (d. 1973) .
• 1902 - Will Geer, was born, actor (d. 1978) .
• 1907 - Nace el historiador y etnólogo Mircea Eliade.
• 1908 - Nasce l'Inter Football Club Internazionale Milano, fondata da 43 soci dissidenti del Milan.
• 1910 - Samuel Barber, American composer was born, (d. 1981) .
• 1916 - Declaração de guerra da Alemanha a Portugal, devido à requisição de todos os navios mercantes alemães refugiados em portos portugueses. Portugal entrava na Primeira Guerra Mundial.
• 1916 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
• 1918 - Mickey Spillane,was born, mystery writer.
• 1918 - George Lincoln Rockwell,was born, American Nazi leader (d. 1967) .
• 1923 - Walter Kohn, was born, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998)
  1924 - Peter Scholl-Latour,was born, journalist
  1924 - Italy annexes Fiume.
• 1926 - Irene Papas, was born , Greek actress.
• 1931 - Ernst Ruska, Premio Nobel per la fisica nel 1986, sperimenta il primo microscopio elettronico.
• 1932 - O antigo imperador chinês Pu Yi é colocado pelos japoneses à frente da Manchúria, província chinesa ocupada pelo Japão.
• 1933 - Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
• 1933 - Mel Lastman, was born, Canadian politician .
• 1934 - Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin,was born in Gzhast, Smolsensk Oblast - Russia cosmonaut, first human in space ( († 1968).
• 1936 - Tom Sestak, was born,American football player (d. 1987) .
• 1937 - Mickey Gilly,was born, country music performer .
• 1940 - John Cale, was born, composer, musician .
• 1940 - Raúl Juliá, was born, actor (d. 1994).
• 1943 - Nascimento na cidade de Chicago, USA de Robert James Fischer, Campeão Mundial de Xadrez no período de 1972 a 1974.
• 1943 - Charles Gibson, was born, television journalist.
• 1945 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.
• 1948 - Jeffrey Osborne born in Providence, RI, singer.
• 1950 - Doug Ault, was born, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004) .
• 1950 - Danny Sullivan,was born, automobile racer .
• 1951 - Michael Kinsley, was born, journalist, editor, founder of Slate magazine .
• 1954 - McCarthyism: CBS broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
• 1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs,dies, astronomer, (b. 1912) .
• 1955 - Ornela Mutti, nasce, atriz italiana .
• 1959 - The Barbie doll debuts.
• 1960 - Linda Fiorentino,was born, actress .
• 1964 - Juliette Binoche, was born, actress .
• 1964 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
• 1964 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck,dies, German general (b. 1870) .
• 1965 - Benito Santiago,was born, baseball player .
• 1967 - Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• 1970 - Matias de Lima, morre, poeta português.
• 1972 - Kerr Smith, was born, American soap opera actor .
• 1973 - Aaron Boone, was born, Major League Baseball All-Star .
• 1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1977 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
• 1981 - Antonio Bryant,was born, American football wide receiver .
• 1981 - Max Delbrück, dies, biologist, (b. 1906) .
• 1986 - 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.
• 1986 - Mario Soares assume a Presidencia da República em Portugal.
• 1987 - Rock band U2 release the classic album The Joshua Tree.
• 1987 - Bow Wow,was born, rap musician, actor .
• 1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, dies, artist, (b. 1946) .
• 1989 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy.
• 1990 - 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.
• 1990 - Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.
• 1991- Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
• 1991 - Mario Soares toma posse como presidente da República de Portugal no seu segundo mandato.
• 1992 - Menachem Begin,dies, Prime Minister of Israel, (b. 1913) .
• 1993 - C. Northcote Parkinson,dies, historian and writer (b. 1909) .
• 1993 - 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.
  1994 - Charles Bukowski,dies, poet, writer, (b.1920) .
• 1994 - Muere el actor Fernando Rey.
• 1996 - George Burns,dies, actor, singer, (b. 1896) .
• 1996 - O socialista Jorge Sampaio assume a Presidencia da República Portuguesa.
• 1997 - The Notorious B.I.G.,dies, rap musician, (b. 1972 as Christopher Wallace) .
• 1997 - Terry Nation, dies writer (Dr Who, Blake 7).
• 2000 - Ivo Robić, dies, singer and songwriter - Croatia, Mister Morgen, (b 1923) .
• 2003 - Stan Brakhage,dies, filmmaker, (b. 1933) .
• 2003 - Bernard Dowiyogo,dies, former president of Nauru, (b. 1946) .
• 2004 - John Allen Mohammed is sentenced to death for his part in the Beltway sniper attacks of October 2002. Lee Boyd Malvo is sentenced to life in prison.
• 2004 - A terrorist attack on a restaurant in Istanbul kills one and injures 5.
• 2004 - Albert Mol,dies, actor (b.1917) .
• 2004 - Robert Pastorelli, dies, actor (b. 1954) .
• 2005 - The final broadcast by Dan Rather on CBS Evening News (announced).