What are the important events that happened on March 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 9: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 9 is the 68^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 24, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,024,640 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontaoctagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 345 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,461 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 9 Historical Events

• 1276 –
  Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
• 1862 –
  American Civil War: The USS Monitor and Ship CSS fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• 1896 –
  Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
• 1910 –
  The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 1916 –
  Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1925 –
  Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1945 –
  The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
• 1960 –
  Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• 1961 –
  Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
• 1976 –
  Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.

Who were born on March 9?

• 1213 –
  Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271)
• 1890 –
  Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (d. 1986)
• 1937 –
  Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
• 1947 –
  Keri Hulme, New Zealand writer
• 1949 –
  Jamie Lyn Bauer, American actress
• 1951 –
  Zakir Hussain, Tabla player and Musician
• 1968 –
  Brian Heidik, American reality-show contestant
• 1975 –
  Chaske Spencer, American actor
• 1981 –
  Antonio Bryant, American football player
• 1981 –
  Clay Rapada, American baseball player

Who died on March 9?

• 1808 –
  Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
• 1888 –
  William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
• 1964 –
  Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1994 –
  Maurice Purtill, American Big Band drummer (b. 1916)
• 1997 –
  Jean-Dominique Bauby, French Journalist & Author (b.1952), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• 1997 –
  Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter, creator of the Daleks (b.1930)
• 2000 –
  Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
• 2005 –
  Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler (b. 1924)
• 2007 –
  Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
• 2010 –
  'Granny D', American political activist (b. 1910)