March 9, 1997 Senior Golf Slam
March 9, 1997 Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open
March 9, 1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
March 9, 1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
March 9, 1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
March 9, 1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
March 9, 1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
March 9, 1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
March 9, 1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
March 9, 1991 U.S. 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
March 9, 1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general
March 9, 1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
March 9, 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
March 9, 1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 9, 1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
March 9, 1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
March 9, 1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
March 9, 1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
March 9, 1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
March 9, 1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
March 9, 1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
March 9, 1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London
March 9, 1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
March 9, 1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
March 9, 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
March 9, 1979 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
March 9, 1978 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR)
March 9, 1978 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
March 9, 1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C., siege ended Mar 11th
March 9, 1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
March 9, 1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
March 9, 1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 9 performances
March 9, 1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
March 9, 1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
March 9, 1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain
March 9, 1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4
March 9, 1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
March 9, 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
March 9, 1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
March 9, 1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
March 9, 1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
March 9, 1962 U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
March 9, 1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
March 9, 1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit
March 9, 1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and "Never Again"
March 9, 1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
March 9, 1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
March 9, 1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
March 9, 1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles
March 9, 1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
March 9, 1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators)
March 9, 1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
March 9, 1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
March 9, 1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York City
March 9, 1949 Brigadier Gen Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
March 9, 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
March 9, 1947 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
March 9, 1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
March 9, 1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
March 9, 1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
March 9, 1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
March 9, 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
March 9, 1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin
March 9, 1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days"
March 9, 1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
March 9, 1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
March 9, 1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
March 9, 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
March 9, 1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
March 9, 1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
March 9, 1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in New York City
March 9, 1923 NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
March 9, 1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in New York City
March 9, 1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
March 9, 1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
March 9, 1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
March 9, 1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
March 9, 1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed)
March 9, 1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
March 9, 1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12
March 9, 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
March 9, 1914 U.S. Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
March 9, 1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
March 9, 1907 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
March 9, 1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
March 9, 1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna