March 09

Wednesday 09, 2005:

Dan Rather presents his final broadcast of the CBS Evening News.

Tuesday 09, 2004:

A terrorist attack on a restaurant in Istanbul kills one and injures 5.

Thursday 09, 1995:

Kappa Phi Lambda is founded at Binghamton University.

Tuesday 09, 1993:

Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.

Saturday 09, 1991:

Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milo?evi? in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.

Friday 09, 1990:

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.

Thursday 09, 1989:

A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy.

Monday 09, 1987:

Rock band U2 release the album The Joshua Tree.

Sunday 09, 1986:

United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.

Wednesday 09, 1977:

Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.

Tuesday 09, 1976:

42 people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.

Sunday 09, 1975:

Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

Thursday 09, 1967:

Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

Monday 09, 1964:

The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.

Monday 09, 1959:

The Barbie doll debuts.

Saturday 09, 1957:

Aleutian Islands register a 9.1 magnitude earthquake

Tuesday 09, 1954:

McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.

Friday 09, 1945:

American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.

Thursday 09, 1933:

Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.

Sunday 09, 1924:

Italy annexes Fiume.

Thursday 09, 1916:

Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.

Monday 09, 1908:

Inter Milan was founded

Sunday 09, 1862:

In a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia the USS Monitor fights the CSS Virginia to a draw.

Tuesday 09, 1847:

Mexican-American War: United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.

Wednesday 09, 1842:

Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

Tuesday 09, 1841:

The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.

Wednesday 09, 1796:

Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Saturday 09, 1765:

After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.

Monday 09, 1276:

Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City

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