9th March anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1934
  • Russian Federation
  • "Birth of Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, the first man in space" more
  • 1758
  • Germany
  • "Birth of Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist who studied the function of different regions of the brain."
  • 1763
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of William Cobbett, journalist and author of Rural Rides." more
• event
  • 1908
  • Italy
  • Inter Milan Football Club was founded .
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "The Barbie doll was launched at the International Toy Fair, New York"
  • -141
  • China
  • Liu Che (Emperor Wu of Han) assumes the throne as the seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty in China. more
  • 1500
  • Portugal
  • The fleet commanded by Pedro Alvares Cabral sailed from Lisbon on journey that led to the discovery of Brazil and it eventually becoming a Portuguese colony. more
  • 1796
  • France
  • Napoléon Bonaparte married Joséphine de Beauharnais. more
• Death
  • 1847
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Mary Anning, possibly the greatest fossil hunter ever known, and the inspiration for the tongue twister 'she sells sea shells on the sea shore'." more
  • 1918
  • Germany
  • "Death of Frank Wedekind, German playwright whose best known play was Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening) and whose satirical work resulted in imprisonment on one occasion." more
  • 1983
  • Sweden
  • "Death of Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and Nobel Prize winner ."
  • 1989
  • United States
  • "Death of Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer"
  • 1566
  • Great Britain
  • Murder of David Riccio (or Rizzio) in Holyrood House
  • 1709
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, British diplomat. He built Montagu House in Bloomsbury, London, which became the British Museum from 1759 to 1842. The present museum stands on the same site"