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| March 9th |
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| About March 9th is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1934 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, first man in space 1943 - Bobby Fischer, world class chess player 1980 - Chingy, rapper (Jackpot) 1984 - Julia Mancuso, Olympic medalist, skiing 1986 - Brittany Snow, actress (American Dreams) 1987 - Bow Wow, rapper, actor (Entourage) Deaths 1947 - 1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffrage leader 1955 - Matthew Henson, explorer (reached North Pole in 1909) 1996 - George Burns, comedian, actor, writer 1997 - The Notorious B.I.G., rapper (Life After Death) Events 1862 - The ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw off the coast of Hampton Roads, Virginia during the American Civil War. 1916 - Pancho Villa leads several hundred Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, NM that kills 17 Americans. 1959 - The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. 1964 - The first Mustang is produced by the Ford Motor Company. 1967 - 25 passengers die along with the pilot on TWA Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, when it crashes into a field in Concord Township, Ohio after a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron. 1985 - The first-ever Adopt-a-Highway sign is put up on Texas’s Highway 69 along a two-mile stretch adopted by the Tyler Civitan Club. 1993 - Rodney King begins his testimony against the four Los Angeles Police officers accused of beating him and violating his civil rights during the 1991 incident. |
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