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A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more.
March 9
| 1617 | The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops. | |
| 1734 | The Russians take Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland. | |
| 1788 | Connecticut becomes the 5th state. | |
| 1796 | Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris, France. | |
| 1812 | Swedish Pomerania is seized by Napoleon. | |
| 1820 | Congress passes the Land Act, paving the way for westward expansion. | |
| 1839 | The French Academy of Science announces the Daguerreotype photo process. | |
| 1841 | The rebel slaves who seized a Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in 1839 are freed by the Supreme Court despite Spanish demands for extradition. | |
| 1862 | The first and last battle between the ironclads U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia ends in a draw. | |
| 1864 | General Ulysses Grant is appointed commander-in-chief of the Union forces. | |
| 1911 | The funding for five new battleships is added to the British military defense budget. | |
| 1915 | The Germans take Grondno on the Eastern Front. | |
| 1916 | Mexican bandit Pancho Villa leads 1,500 horsemen on a raid of Columbus, N.M. killing 17 U.S. soldiers and citizens. | |
| 1932 | Eamon De Valera is elected president of the Irish Free State and pledges to abolish all loyalty to the British Crown. | |
| 1936 | The German press warns that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections will be arrested. | |
| 1939 | Czech President Emil Hacha ousts pro-German Joseph Tiso as the Premier of Slovakia in order to preserve Czech unity. | |
| 1940 | Britain frees captured Italian coal ships on the eve of German Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop's visit to Rome. | |
| 1956 | British authorities arrest and deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus. He is accused of supporting terrorists. | |
| 1957 | Egyptian leader Nasser bars U.N. plans to share the tolls for the use of the Suez Canal. | |
| 1959 | The Barbie doll is unveiled at a toy fair in New York City. | |
| 1964 | The first Ford Mustang rolls off the Ford assembly line. | |
| 1967 | Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalin's daughter defects to the United States. | |
| 1968 | General William Westmoreland asks for 206,000 more troops in Vietnam. | |
| 1975 | Iraq launches an offensive against the rebellious Kurds. | |
| 1986 | Navy divers find the crew compartment of the space shuttle Challenger along with the remains of the astronauts. | |
| Born on March 9 | ||
| 1451 | Amerigo Vespucci, Italian navigator. | |
| 1824 | Leland Stanford, railroad builder, founder of Stanford University. | |
| 1890 | Vyacheslav Molotov, former Soviet Prime Minister. | |
| 1892 | Vita Sackville-West, writer. | |
| 1905 | Peter Quennell, biographer. | |
| 1910 | Samuel Barber, American composer ("Adagio for Strings," Vanessa). | |
| 1918 | Frank Morrison Spillane [Mickey Spillane], crime writer (Kiss Me, Deadly, The Erection Set). | |
| 1930 | Ornette Coleman, jazz saxophonist. | |
| 1934 | Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, the first man to orbit the Earth. | |
| 1943 | Bobby Fischer, first American world chess champion. | |
| 1947 | Keri Hulme, New Zealand novelist (The Bone People). | |
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