1009 The first known record of the name of Lithuania appeared in an entry in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg (in modern Germany) on March 9, 1009. The entry mentions the name "Litua" in reference to a peace treaty that was signed between the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and a pagan tribe known as the "Litwani" or "Lithuanians".
1562 Kissing in public was banned in Naples on March 9, 1562. The law was part of a broader effort by the city's rulers to promote public decency and morality, and it was enforced with strict penalties, including the threat of death.
1566 Mary Queen of Scot's second husband the Earl of Darnley on March 9, 1566, was jealous of his wife's friendship with her private secretary, David Rizzio, and he entered into a secret conspiracy with a group of Protestant nobles. On March 9, 1566 they murdered Rizzio while he was in conference with the queen at Holyrood Palace. He was stabbed numerous times and his body was found to have had over 50 wounds. The murder was the catalyst for the breakdown of their marriage.
1776 Scottish economist Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was first published on March 9, 1776. The work, which took him ten years to write, heralded the birth of modern economics with its avocation of free trade (or Laissez Faire) rather than duties on imports. The Wealth of Nations was an instant success, selling out its first edition in only six months.
1796 The willowy Joséphine de Beauharnais was among the gayest of French women in her era. She was good-natured, with refined manners, grace and charm. Napoléon Bonaparte was attracted by Joséphine's grace and charm, her delicately turned up nose and her long lashed eyes. They married on March 9, 1796 in a civil marriage ceremony. Josephine did not have any children with Napoleon. Because of this he divorced her in 1810.
1735 After receiving Anglican orders John and Charles Wesley sailed for Savannah in Georgia Colony in British America at the request of its governor, James Oglethorpe. Charles was asked to be chaplain to the garrison and colony at nearby Fort Frederica, St. Simon's Island, arriving there on March 9, 1736. Matters did not turn out well, and he was largely rejected by the settlers.
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco premiered on March 9, 1842 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Nabucco is an opera in four acts by Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The opera was based on the Biblical story of the plight of the Jews as they are exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Nabucco was a huge success and made Verdi world-famous.
1842 The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush. On March 9, 1842, Francisco Lopez took a rest under an oak tree (see picture below) and had a dream that he was floating on a pool of gold. When he awoke, he pulled a few wild onions from the ground finding flakes of gold in the roots. This sparked a minor gold rush of about 2,000 people.
1850 On March 9, 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe, a writer for The National Era, penned a letter to Gamaliel Bailey, who was the editor of the weekly anti-slavery journal. She told him that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery. The result was Uncle Tom's Cabin, a story about a devout black slave, who generously saves the life of a white man only to be sold to a sadistic slave owner. The tale graphically depicts the horrors of slavery.
1886 The 58-year-old Jules Verne was shot in the left leg by his adored nephew Gaston on March 9, 1886, who was committed to an institution. From then on the novelist had a permanent limp and he had to give up an active life.
1888 On the death of Wilhelm I on March 9, 1888, Prince Frederick William of Prussia was crowned Emperor as Frederick III but he was dying of throat cancer, and three months later his son Wilhelm succeeded him as Emperor as Wilhelm II.
1908 Inter Milan was founded on March 9, 1908 as Football Club Internazionale, following a "schism" from the Milan Cricket and Football Club (now A.C. Milan). The name of the football club derives from the wish of its founding members to accept foreign players as well as Italians.
1910 A seventeen-month-long strike action, which at its peak involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began on March 9, 1910 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S. The strike was sparked by a wage dispute between the miners and the mine owners. In the end, the strike was only partially successful, with some miners returning to work under the new, lower wages, while others held out and eventually received higher wages and improved working conditions.
1910 American composer Samuel Barber was born on March 9, 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of Marguerite McLeod (née Beatty) and physician Samuel Le Roy Barber. (Picture shows his childhood home). A child prodigy, at the age of 10 Samuel Barber wrote a short opera entitled The Rose. Two years later, he was holding down a part-time $100-a-month organist’s post at Westminster Church in his home town of West Chester.
1943 Bobby Fischer was born on March 9, 1943. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. Leading American chess master Donald Byrne and and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer played a famous chess game called The Game of the Century in 1956. Fischer beat Byrne and won a Brilliancy prize. Fischer won the World Chess Championship in a Cold War battle against the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972.
1954 WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), in New York, broadcast the first local color television commercial on March 9, 1954. The ad was for Castro Decorators of New York City. The technology behind color television was still relatively new in 1954, so the fact that this commercial was in color was likely a big deal at the time. Color TV sets were not yet widespread, however, so many viewers would have seen the commercial in black and white.
1959 The idea for the Barbie Doll came about after Mattel toy partner Ruth Handler watched her daughter, Barbara, cut dolls out of magazines and carefully choose clothes and accessories to clothe them in. All other dolls on the market at the time were baby dolls, but Ruth realised there was enormous potential in a doll with adult features, allowing children to act out their dreams. The Barbie Doll made her debut in a zebra swimsuit at the New York Toy Fair on March 9, 1959.
1985 Children's TV presenter Peter Duncan attempted to ‘drive' over the Irish Sea in an amphibious Volkswagen Beetle for his new show Duncan Dares on March 9, 1985, but broke down and was towed to safety.
1987 U2 released The Joshua Tree which features the singles "Where The Streets Have No Name", and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" on March 9, 1987. The album became the fastest selling in UK history and the first to sell over a million CDs,
1997 On March 9, 1997 the rapper Notorious B.I.G. was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California. He was just 24 years old at the time of his death. Some have suggested that his murder was connected to the earlier killing of his rap rival, Tupac Shakur, who was fatally shot in Las Vegas in September 1996.
2000 When the London Eye opened to the general public on March 9, 2000, it was granted planning permission for only five years, but in 2003 it was extended for at least another 24 years. With a height of 135 metres (443ft), the London Eye was the world’s tallest Ferris wheel, holding that title until surpassed by one in Nanchang, China, in 2006.
2018 English comedian Ken Dodd married his partner of 40 years, Anne Jones, on March 9, 2018 at their home in Knotty Ash, after being released from hospital following six weeks of treatment for a chest infection. He died two days later on March 11, 2018.
1562 Kissing in public was banned in Naples on March 9, 1562. The law was part of a broader effort by the city's rulers to promote public decency and morality, and it was enforced with strict penalties, including the threat of death.
1566 Mary Queen of Scot's second husband the Earl of Darnley on March 9, 1566, was jealous of his wife's friendship with her private secretary, David Rizzio, and he entered into a secret conspiracy with a group of Protestant nobles. On March 9, 1566 they murdered Rizzio while he was in conference with the queen at Holyrood Palace. He was stabbed numerous times and his body was found to have had over 50 wounds. The murder was the catalyst for the breakdown of their marriage.
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| The Murder of Rizzio, 1787 by John Opie |
1776 Scottish economist Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was first published on March 9, 1776. The work, which took him ten years to write, heralded the birth of modern economics with its avocation of free trade (or Laissez Faire) rather than duties on imports. The Wealth of Nations was an instant success, selling out its first edition in only six months.
1796 The willowy Joséphine de Beauharnais was among the gayest of French women in her era. She was good-natured, with refined manners, grace and charm. Napoléon Bonaparte was attracted by Joséphine's grace and charm, her delicately turned up nose and her long lashed eyes. They married on March 9, 1796 in a civil marriage ceremony. Josephine did not have any children with Napoleon. Because of this he divorced her in 1810.
1735 After receiving Anglican orders John and Charles Wesley sailed for Savannah in Georgia Colony in British America at the request of its governor, James Oglethorpe. Charles was asked to be chaplain to the garrison and colony at nearby Fort Frederica, St. Simon's Island, arriving there on March 9, 1736. Matters did not turn out well, and he was largely rejected by the settlers.
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco premiered on March 9, 1842 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Nabucco is an opera in four acts by Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The opera was based on the Biblical story of the plight of the Jews as they are exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Nabucco was a huge success and made Verdi world-famous.
1842 The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush. On March 9, 1842, Francisco Lopez took a rest under an oak tree (see picture below) and had a dream that he was floating on a pool of gold. When he awoke, he pulled a few wild onions from the ground finding flakes of gold in the roots. This sparked a minor gold rush of about 2,000 people.
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| By Konrad Summers - https://www.flickr.com/photos |
1850 On March 9, 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe, a writer for The National Era, penned a letter to Gamaliel Bailey, who was the editor of the weekly anti-slavery journal. She told him that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery. The result was Uncle Tom's Cabin, a story about a devout black slave, who generously saves the life of a white man only to be sold to a sadistic slave owner. The tale graphically depicts the horrors of slavery.
1886 The 58-year-old Jules Verne was shot in the left leg by his adored nephew Gaston on March 9, 1886, who was committed to an institution. From then on the novelist had a permanent limp and he had to give up an active life.
1888 On the death of Wilhelm I on March 9, 1888, Prince Frederick William of Prussia was crowned Emperor as Frederick III but he was dying of throat cancer, and three months later his son Wilhelm succeeded him as Emperor as Wilhelm II.
1908 Inter Milan was founded on March 9, 1908 as Football Club Internazionale, following a "schism" from the Milan Cricket and Football Club (now A.C. Milan). The name of the football club derives from the wish of its founding members to accept foreign players as well as Italians.
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| Inter squad in 1910 |
1910 A seventeen-month-long strike action, which at its peak involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began on March 9, 1910 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S. The strike was sparked by a wage dispute between the miners and the mine owners. In the end, the strike was only partially successful, with some miners returning to work under the new, lower wages, while others held out and eventually received higher wages and improved working conditions.
1910 American composer Samuel Barber was born on March 9, 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of Marguerite McLeod (née Beatty) and physician Samuel Le Roy Barber. (Picture shows his childhood home). A child prodigy, at the age of 10 Samuel Barber wrote a short opera entitled The Rose. Two years later, he was holding down a part-time $100-a-month organist’s post at Westminster Church in his home town of West Chester.
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| Childhood home of Samuel Barber in West Chester, Pennsylvania |
1943 Bobby Fischer was born on March 9, 1943. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. Leading American chess master Donald Byrne and and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer played a famous chess game called The Game of the Century in 1956. Fischer beat Byrne and won a Brilliancy prize. Fischer won the World Chess Championship in a Cold War battle against the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972.
1954 WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), in New York, broadcast the first local color television commercial on March 9, 1954. The ad was for Castro Decorators of New York City. The technology behind color television was still relatively new in 1954, so the fact that this commercial was in color was likely a big deal at the time. Color TV sets were not yet widespread, however, so many viewers would have seen the commercial in black and white.
1959 The idea for the Barbie Doll came about after Mattel toy partner Ruth Handler watched her daughter, Barbara, cut dolls out of magazines and carefully choose clothes and accessories to clothe them in. All other dolls on the market at the time were baby dolls, but Ruth realised there was enormous potential in a doll with adult features, allowing children to act out their dreams. The Barbie Doll made her debut in a zebra swimsuit at the New York Toy Fair on March 9, 1959.
1985 Children's TV presenter Peter Duncan attempted to ‘drive' over the Irish Sea in an amphibious Volkswagen Beetle for his new show Duncan Dares on March 9, 1985, but broke down and was towed to safety.
1987 U2 released The Joshua Tree which features the singles "Where The Streets Have No Name", and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" on March 9, 1987. The album became the fastest selling in UK history and the first to sell over a million CDs,
1997 On March 9, 1997 the rapper Notorious B.I.G. was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California. He was just 24 years old at the time of his death. Some have suggested that his murder was connected to the earlier killing of his rap rival, Tupac Shakur, who was fatally shot in Las Vegas in September 1996.
2000 When the London Eye opened to the general public on March 9, 2000, it was granted planning permission for only five years, but in 2003 it was extended for at least another 24 years. With a height of 135 metres (443ft), the London Eye was the world’s tallest Ferris wheel, holding that title until surpassed by one in Nanchang, China, in 2006.
2018 English comedian Ken Dodd married his partner of 40 years, Anne Jones, on March 9, 2018 at their home in Knotty Ash, after being released from hospital following six weeks of treatment for a chest infection. He died two days later on March 11, 2018.
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