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What happened in history on this day: March 9?
On March 9 in ...
- 1009 - Death of St. Bruno von Querfurt (970 - 1009); missionary to Poland.
- 1230 - Russian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats the army of Theodore Komnenos Doukas.
- 1452 - Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III Roman Catholic-German emperor.
- 1454 - Birth of Amerigo Vespucci; explorer.
- 1496 - Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria.
- 1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation.
- 1500 - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India.
- 1522 - Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit.
- 1551 - Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne.
- 1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death).
- 1564 - Birth of David Fabricius Essen Germany, astronomer (discovered variable star).
- 1566 - David Riccio Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered.
- 1568 - Birth of Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga Italian prince/Jesuit/saint.
- 1617 - Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa.
- 1620 - Aegidius Albertinus German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at age 59.
- 1640 - Pierre Corneilles "Horace" premieres in Paris France.
- 1642 - English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Netherlands.
- 1661 - Death of Guilio Mazarin at age 58; chief minister of France.
- 1693 - Antonio Caraffa Italian General (Eperieser Bloedgericht), dies at age 46?.
- 1697 - Birth of Friederike C Neuber German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz).
- 1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe.
- 1701 - France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance.
- 1721 - English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower.
- 1741 - English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena.
- 1745 - Bells for first American carillon shipped from England to Boston.
- 1753 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Kléber French General/architect (Mainz, Fleurus).
- 1758 - Birth of Franz Joseph Gall German/French physician (frenology).
- 1791 - Birth of George Hayward; US surgeon, first to use ether.
- 1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais.
- 1798 - Dr George Balfour becomes first naval surgeon in the US navy.
- 1814 - Birth of Taras Shevchenko in Ukraine; national poet/painter/professor of Kiev.
- 1820 - Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die.
- 1822 - Charles M Graham of New York patents artificial teeth.
- 1824 - Birth of Leland Stanford; American politician (Governor/Senator), founded Stanford University.
- 1831 - Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at age 79.
- 1839 - Birth of Felix Huston Robertson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1928).
- 1839 - Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours.
- 1841 - US Supreme Court rules in case "United States v The Amistad" that the 53 Africans had been unlawfully kidnapped so were entitled to their freedom.
- 1858 - Albert Potts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA patents the street mailbox.
- 1859 - Birth of Richard Engländer [Peter Altenberg] in Austria; author (Lebensabend).
- 1860 - First Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington DC.
- 1861 - Confederate currency authorized: $50, $100, $500, $1,000.
- 1862 - Monitor (USA) and Merrimack (CSA) battle in Hampton Roads, ending in a draw.
- 1877 - Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at age 58.
- 1881 - Birth of Enver Pasja; Turkish General/politician.
- 1881 - Birth of Ernest Bevin; British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs.
- 1887 - Birth of Phil Mead; cricket player (strong batsman for England pre- and post-WWI).
- 1888 - Death of Kaiser Wilhelm I at age 90, Emperor of Germany.
- 1890 - Birth of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov; Soviet foreign minister (UN).
- 1892 - Birth of David Garnett in England; novelist/editor (Lady into Fox).
- 1892 - Birth of Frank Puglia in Sicily, Italy; actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book).
- 1892 - Birth of Joseph Weinheber in Austria; poet/writer (Adel und Untergang).
- 1892 - Birth of Vita Sackville-West in England; novelist/poet (The Land).
- 1893 - Congo cannibals kill thousands of arabs.
- 1895 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at age 59.
- 1895 - Stanley Cup: Montréal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ontario) loses to Montréal AAA, 5-1.
- 1900 - Birth of Aimone; duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43).
- 1902 - Birth of Edward Durell Stone; US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi).
- 1902 - Birth of William Aughe Ghere AKA Will Geer in Frankfort, Indiana, USA; actor (Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton - The Waltons) (dies 1978).
- 1905 - Birth of Félix Labisse; French painter (libidoscaphes).
- 1905 - Birth of Grigori Kozintsev in Kiev, Ukraine; director (Hamlet, King Lear).
- 1905 - Birth of Peter C Quennell; English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy).
- 1905 - Birth of Rex Warner; English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase).
- 1907 - First involuntary sterilization law enacted in USA, in Indiana.
- 1910 - Birth of Ed[uard] Hoornik; Dutch writer/poet (Survivor).
- 1910 - Birth of Samuel Barber in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (School for Scandal).
- 1913 - Birth of Ger[ar]da Brautigam; journalist/Dutch second Chamber (PvdA).
- 1914 - Birth of Fred Clark in Lincoln, California, USA; actor (Burns and Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard).
- 1914 - US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico".
- 1915 - Birth of Pete Gray; one-armed outfielder (Saint Louis Browns).
- 1916 - General Francisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus, New Mexico, USA (17 killed).
- 1916 - Germany declares war against Portugal.
- 1916 - Ken Hutchings, cricket player (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies.
- 1917 - Birth of Dante B Fascell; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Florida, 1955-).
- 1918 - Birth of Marguerite Chapman in Chatham, New York, USA; actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars).
- 1918 - Birth of Frank Morrison Spillane AKA Mickey Spillane in Brooklyn, New York, USA; mystery writer (I the Jury).
- 1918 - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party.
- 1918 - Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda.
- 1918 - [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press secretary, dies at age 53.
- 1920 - Birth of Carl Betz in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Alex Stone - Donna Reed Show).
- 1922 - Birth of Herbert P Douglas Junior in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1948).
- 1923 - Birth of André Courréges in France; fashion designer (introduced the miniskirt).
- 1923 - Birth of James Buckley; American politician (Senator-Republican-New York).
- 1923 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in two games.
- 1924 - Italy annexes Fiume.
- 1924 - South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka).
- 1926 - Birth of Gerrit A Kooy; Dutch sociologist (Apartheid and work in South Africa).
- 1926 - Birth of Irene Papas in Corinth, Greece; actress (Moses The Lawgiver).
- 1927 - Birth of Jack Jensen; American baseball player (American League Most Valuable Player 1958).
- 1929 - Birth of Hugh Desmond Hoyte; president (Guyana, 1985-92).
- 1930 - Birth of Harrie J B Aarts; Dutch second chamber member (CDA).
- 1930 - Birth of Thomas Schippers in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA; conductor (Amahl and Night Visitors).
- 1931 - Birth of Taina Elg in Helsinki, Finland; actress (Hercules in New York, Les Girls).
- 1932 - Birth of Heere Heeresma; Dutch writer (Han de Wit goes in development aid).
- 1932 - Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland.
- 1932 - Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria.
- 1933 - Birth of Lloyd Price in Kenner, Louisiana, USA; singer ("Lawdy Miss Clawdy", "Misty", "Just Because", "Come to Me").
- 1933 - Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin, Germany.
- 1933 - US Congress is called into special session by President Franklin Roosevelt, and begins its "100 days".
- 1933 - US Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act, authorizing the President to confiscate gold held by American citizens, except those coins of numismatic value, to be paid $20 in paper per ounce.
- 1933 - The US is in a state of declared national emergency.
- 1934 - Birth of Joyce Van Patten in Queens, New York, USA; actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show).
- 1934 - Birth of Yuri Gagarin in Russia; cosmonaut, first man into space (aboard Vostok 1).
- 1935 - Birth of Joe Gallison in Houston, Texas, USA; actor (PT-109, Neil - Days of Our Lives).
- 1935 - Birth of Keely Smith in Norfolk, Virginia, USA; singer (Mrs Louis Prima).
- 1936 - Babe Ruth turns down Cincinnati Reds to make a comeback as a baseball player.
- 1936 - Birth of Glenda Jackson in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England; actress (Hopscotch, Touch of Class).
- 1936 - Birth of Marty Ingels in Brooklyn, New York, USA; comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster).
- 1936 - Birth of Mickey Gilley in Ferriday, Louisiana, USA; country singer ("Urban Cowboy").
- 1936 - Birth of [Aino] Elina Salo in Sipoo, Finland; actress (Hamlet Goes Business).
- 1937 - Birth of Grahame Chevalier; cricket player (one Test for South Africa 1970, 0 and 0, 5-100).
- 1938 - Birth of Charles Siebert in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA; actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper John).
- 1940 - Birth of Raul Julia in San Juan, Puerto Rico; actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Eyes of Laura Mars).
- 1941 - Birth of Jim Colbert in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA; PGA golfer (1969 Monsanto Open).
- 1942 - Birth of Bert Campaneris; shortstop (Kansas City Athletics).
- 1942 - Birth of John Cale; Welsh/US bassist/violinist/singer (Velvet Underground).
- 1942 - Birth of Mark Lindsay in Eugene, Oregon, USA; rocker (Paul Revere and the Raiders).
- 1942 - Dutch colonial authorities surrender the islands of the Netherlands East Indies. All Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies surrender unconditionally to Japan.
- 1942 - Construction of the Alaska Highway begins.
- 1943 - Birth of Bobby Fischer; American world chess champion (1972-75).
- 1943 - Birth of Trish Van Devere [Patricia Dressel] in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA; actress (Changeling, Movie Movie, Hearse).
- 1943 - Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown.
- 1943 - Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to extermination camps.
- 1943 - Oskar Hêks, Czechoslovakian marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz.
- 1944 - Birth of Geoff Arnold; cricket player (England medium-pacer in 34 Tests 1967-75).
- 1944 - Birth of Lee Irvine; cricket player (South African batsman, only Tests in 1970).
- 1944 - Birth of Trevor Burton; rocker (Move).
- 1945 - 279 American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan, destroying sixteen square miles of the city, killing 83,700, injuring 40,000, making over one million homeless.
- 1945 - Birth of Laura Lee [Rundless]; singer ("Dirty Man", "Women's Love Rights").
- 1945 - Birth of Ray Royer; rocker (Procol Harum - "A Whiter Shade of Pale").
- 1945 - Birth of Robin Trower in London, England; rocker (Procol Harum - "A Whiter Shade of Pale").
- 1945 - Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China.
- 1946 - Birth of Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov; Russian cosmonaut (backup TM-6).
- 1946 - Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang.
- 1946 - Ted Williams is offered US$500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses.
- 1947 - Stanley Jackson, cricket player (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies.
- 1947 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill.
- 1947 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button.
- 1948 - Birth of Jamie Lyn Bauer in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; actress (The Young and the Restless, Centerfold Girls).
- 1948 - Birth of Jeffrey Osborne in Providence, Rhode Island, USA; rock vocalist ("On the Wings of Love").
- 1948 - Birth of Jimmy Fadden in Long Beach, California, USA; singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band).
- 1948 - Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia.
- 1949 - American Brigadier General Edwin K Wright ends term as deputy director of Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1949 - England beats South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes.
- 1950 - Birth of Danny Sullivan; Indy-car racer (over ten wins).
- 1950 - Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of US$64,000 in New York City, New York.
- 1952 - Birth of Iuliana Semenova in USSR; basketball (Olympics-gold-1976).
- 1952 - Birth of William Kirby Cullen in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor (How the West Was Won).
- 1952 - Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title.
- 1953 - Birth of Henriëtte J Toll; actress (Soldier of Orange).
- 1953 - Josef Stalin buried in Moscow.
- 1954 - First local color TV commercial, on WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City, New York (Castro Decorators).
- 1954 - Birth of Keven Wade in Chappaqua, New York, USA; screen writer (Working Girls).
- 1955 - Birth of Fernando Bujones in Miami, Florida; ballet dancer.
- 1955 - Birth of Ornella Muti in Rome, Italy; actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife).
- 1955 - Birth of Teo Fabi; formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983).
- 1955 - Matthew A Henson, met Peary at North Pole, dies at age 88.
- 1956 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles.
- 1957 - 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska, USA.
- 1957 - Birth of Faith Daniels; news anchor (CBS-TV).
- 1957 - Birth of Jeff Senior in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Australasia golfer.
- 1957 - Birth of Jon Engen in Oslo, Norway; US biathlete (Olympics-1994).
- 1958 - Birth of Martin Fry; rock vocalist (ABC - "All of My Heart").
- 1958 - George Yardley (Detroit Pistons) is first NBA player to score 2,000 points in season.
- 1959 - First known radar contact is made with Venus.
- 1959 - The first Barbie doll, Mattel's "Barbie Millicent Roberts", goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Eleven inches tall, Barbie is the first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult features.
- 1959 - Birth of Kato [Brian] Kaelin; actor (Beach Fever).
- 1959 - Birth of Lonny Price in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Muppets Take Manhattan).
- 1960 - Birth of Linda Fiorentino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns).
- 1961 - Mine cave-in in Japan kills 72.
- 1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit.
- 1962 - Birth of Brian Green in Columbus, Indiana, USA; actor (Brian Bodine - All My Children, Sam Fowler - Another World).
- 1962 - Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians.
- 1962 - Howard Engstrom of Boston, Massachussettes, USA, a designer of Univac computer, dies at age 59.
- 1962 - US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight.
- 1963 - Birth of Kent Ferguson in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA; diver (Olympics-1992, 1996).
- 1963 - Birth of Terry Mulholland in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA; pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies).
- 1964 - First Ford Mustang automobile produced.
- 1964 - Birth of Phil Housley in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Team USA Olympics-1998).
- 1964 - Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma.
- 1964 - Johanna W "Mina" Bakker; Dutch actress (Boefje), dies at age 87.
- 1964 - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian General/politician, dies at age 93.
- 1964 - US Supreme Court issues New York Times versus Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages.
- 1965 - Birth of Benito Santiago in Ponce, Puerto Rico; catcher (Philadelphia Phillies).
- 1965 - Birth of Brian Bosworth; NFL quarterback (Seattle).
- 1965 - Birth of Juliette Binoche in Paris, France; actress (English Patient, Unbearable Lightness of Being).
- 1966 - Birth of Louis Oliver; NFL safety (Miami Dolphins).
- 1967 - Birth of Curt Schreiner in Albany, New York, USA; biathlete (Olympics-1994).
- 1967 - Birth of Eric Flaim in Pembroke, Massachusetts, USA; short track skater (Olympics-1994).
- 1967 - Birth of Michael Kiselak; Canadian Football League corner (Toronto Argonauts).
- 1967 - Svetlana Allilueva, Josef Stalin's daughter, defects to the West in New York City.
- 1968 - 10th Grammy Awards: "Up Up and Away", Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band win.
- 1969 - Birth of Bryce Burnett; NFL/WLAF tight end (Denver Broncos, Barcelona Dragons).
- 1969 - Birth of George Nimako; Canadian Football League safety (Toronto Argonauts).
- 1969 - Birth of Mahmoud Abdul Rauf; NBA guard (Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets).
- 1969 - Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies.
- 1969 - Richard Crane, actor (Surfside 6), dies at age 50.
- 1970 - Birth of Melissa Rathburn-Nealy; US soldier (Iraqi POW).
- 1971 - Birth of Bev Oden in Millington, Tennessee, USA; volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Emmanuel Lewis in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Webster).
- 1971 - Birth of Jiro Nihei; hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998).
- 1971 - Birth of Lou Benfatti; NFL defensive tackle (New York Jets).
- 1971 - Birth of Sean Holcomb; NFL linebacker (New England Patriots).
- 1971 - J M Noreiga takes 9-95 West Indies versus India at Port-of-Spain.
- 1972 - Birth of Marcia M Griffith in Washington DC; Miss Maryland-America (1995).
- 1972 - Birth of Sara Nicole Williams; Miss Washington-USA (1997).
- 1972 - Players on Chicago White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary.
- 1973 - Birth of David Prinosil in Olmutz, Czechoslovakia; tennis star (1995 ATP Newport).
- 1973 - Birth of Josh LaRocca; WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire).
- 1973 - Birth of Troy Bailey; WLAF defensive end (Scotland Claymores).
- 1974 - Birth of Mark Harrity; cricket player (promising South Australia left-arm fast bowler).
- 1974 - Earl W Sutherland Junior, US pharmacologist (Nobel Prize 1971), dies at age 58.
- 1974 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.
- 1974 - Death of Felix Schlag at age 82 in Owosso, Michigan, USA; American professional photographer and sculptor, designer of Jefferson 5-cent coin (1938-).
- 1975 - Birth of Adonal Foyle; NBA center (San Francisco Warriors).
- 1975 - Birth of Roy Makaay; Dutch soccer player (Vitesse).
- 1975 - Joseph Dunninger of New York City, New York, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at age 82.
- 1975 - Shirley Ross, actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller), dies at age 62.
- 1976 - First female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy.
- 1976 - New York Islanders' Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Saint Louis Blues 4-0.
- 1977 - Admiral Stansfield Turner, US Navy (Retired), becomes 12th director of US Central Intelligence Agency replacing acting director Knoche.
- 1977 - Birth of Radek Dvorak in Tabor, Czechoslovakia; NHL left wing (Florida Panthers).
- 1977 - Hanafi Muslims invade three buildings in Washington DC, siege ends March 11th.
- 1977 - Death of Felix Oskar Schlag; sculptor (1938 US Jefferson nickel).
- 1978 - World Ice Dance Championship in Ottawa Canada won by Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov (USSR).
- 1978 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Irina Rodnina and Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR).
- 1978 - World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (German Democratic Republic).
- 1978 - World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA).
- 1979 - Barbara Mullen, actress (Talk of a Million), dies at age 64.
- 1979 - Bowie Kuhn orders Major League Baseball to give equal access to female reporters.
- 1979 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island.
- 1980 - Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured.
- 1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament.
- 1980 - Olga Chekova, actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at age 82.
- 1981 - Max Delbrück, German/US biologist (Nobel Prize 1969), dies at age 74 (born 1906).
- 1981 - Dan Rather succeeds Walter Cronkhite as primary anchorman of CBS-TV News.
- 1982 - Alan Badel, actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at age 58.
- 1982 - Rex Marshall, TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), dies.
- 1982 - Charles Haughey becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
- 1983 - Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana.
- 1983 - Death of Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905).
- 1983 - Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
- 1983 - Death of Faye Emerson at age 65 of stomach cancer; hostess (Paris Cavalcade of Fashions (1948), The Faye Emerson Show (1950), Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951), Author Meets the Critics (1952), Faye and Skitch (1953)), panellist (I've Got a Secret, Masquerade Party), actress (The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse, Goodyear Television Playhouse).
- 1984 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Splash to theaters in the US. This is the first film release from Touchstone Pictures.
- 1984 - Birth of Julia Mancuso, US Olympic medalist.
- 1984 - Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections.
- 1984 - Philadelphia 76ers block 20 Seattle SuperSonics' shots tying NBA regulation game record.
- 1984 - Tim Witherspoon knocks out Greg Page in 12 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1986 - 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises US$30,100,000.
- 1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open.
- 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 are still inside.
- 1986 - Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at age 78.
- 1986 - Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km.
- 1988 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at age 83 (born 1904).
- 1989 - Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy.
- 1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer, dies at age 42 (born 1946).
- 1989 - Roger Kingdom runs world record 60 metre hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds).
- 1989 - US Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary.
- 1989 - Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court.
- 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1990 - Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
- 1990 - Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.
- 1990 - In Canada, Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord.
- 1991 - 5th American Comedy Awards: Dennis Wolfberg wins.
- 1991 - US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit.
- 1991 - In Canada, one person wins a CDN$13.2 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot.
- 1991 - The CBS TV network airs the last show of the series Lenny.
- 1991 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan MiloÜevic in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
- 1992 - Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless), dies.
- 1992 - Jack McEdward, assistant director (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at age 94.
- 1992 - James Brooks, US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia New York), dies at age 85.
- 1992 - Menachim Begin, Israeli prime minister (1977-1983, Nobel Peace Prize 1979), dies at age 79 (born 1913).
- 1992 - The People's Republic of China ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- 1993 - Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies.
- 1993 - Bob Crosby, swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at age 79.
- 1993 - Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak.
- 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.
- 1994 - Charles Bukowski, American author/poet, dies of leukemia at age 73 (born 1920).
- 1994 - Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at age 76.
- 1994 - Irish Republican Army launch first of three mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport.
- 1994 - John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at age 48.
- 1994 - Lawrence E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press), dies at age 93.
- 1994 - Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at age 100.
- 1994 - The TV show Thunder Alley premieres.
- 1994 - The ABC TV network debuts the series These Friends of Mine.
- 1995 - Major League Baseball owners admit two new teams, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The teams will be assigned leagues in January of 1997.
- 1995 - Ian Ballantine, publisher, dies of heart attack at age 79.
- 1995 - Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record).
- 1995 - President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns.
- 1996 - Jorge Sampaio is the new Portuguese president.
- 1996 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist, dies at age 77.
- 1996 - Elman Ali Ahmed, peace campaigner, dies at age 42.
- 1996 - Javed Miandad's last international in Pakistan's World Cup quarterfinal loss to India.
- 1996 - Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) versus England in World Cup quarterfinal.
- 1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands.
- 1997 - Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. [Biggie Small Chris Walkin] is killed in a drive-by shooting, at age 24 (born 1972).
- 1997 - Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open.
- 1997 - Terry Nation, writer (Doctor Who, Blake 7) dies at age 66.
- 2000 - The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
- 2001 - At an auction in Salt Lake City, Utah, Superior Galleries sells a US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin to Dwight Manley for US$1.84 million.
- 2003 - A by-election in Turkey makes Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the Justice and Development Party, the country's new Prime Minister.
- 2003 - Death of Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (born 1946).
- 2006 - NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
- 2007 - Death of Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (born 1951).
- 2008 - General elections in Spain, for 350 members of the Cortes, the lower house of parliament: Socialist Party wins 169 seats, with leader José Luis Rodríguez. Popular Party wins 153 seats.
- 2008 - At the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, the Automated Transfer Vehicle is launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket into space. The unmanned European Space Agency cargo freighter is on a mission to resupply the International Space Station.
- 2008 - The Pakistan People's Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz agree to work together to form a government.
- 2009 - American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co announces it will acquire Schering-Plough for US$41.1 billion.
- 2009 - US President Barack Obama signs an executive order restoring funding for stem cell research.
- 2014 - Death of Mohammed Fahim, Vice President of Afghanistan (born c. 1957).
- 2016 - Kiribati presidential election won by Taaneti Mamau.
- 2018 - Birth of Princess Adrienne, Duchess of Blekinge.
- 2018 - (to March 18) The 2018 Winter Paralympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
- 2018 - President of the United States Donald Trump accepts an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a meeting in May to discuss the denuclearisation of North Korea.
- 2020 - International share prices fall sharply in response to a Russo-Saudi oil price war and the impact of COVID-19. Oil prices plunge by as much as 30% in early trading.
- 2020 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges more than 2,000 points, the largest fall in its history.
- 2020 - Lebanon government sovereign default on US$1.2 billion Eurobond, first time in its history.
- 2020 - Italy becomes the first country to implement a nationwide quarantine in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
- 2022 - India accidentally fires a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from northern India to 124km inside Pakistan, injuring no one.
- 2022 - Presidential election in the Republic of Korea. Yoon Suk-yeol of the People's Power Party beats Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Minjoo party by 263,000 votes, closest presidential election in Korea's history.
- 2022 - Ukraine makes formal application for membership in the European Union.
- 2023 - In California, USA, Silicon Valley Bank sees withdrawals of $42 billion in a single day.
- 2023 - Death of Robert Blake AKA Michael Gubitosi at age 89 of heart disease at home in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Mickey - Our Gang and Little Rascals film series, Little Beaver - Red Ryder TV show, In Cold Blood movie (1967), Baretta TV show, Emmy Award winner).
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