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What happened in history on this day: March 9?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On March 9 in ...
- 1984 - Intel and IBM announce a licensing agreement for IBM to manufacture, for its own use, processors based on Intel designs.
- 1989 - In the TV show Days of Our Lives, a Commodore 64 computer is shown.
- 2001 - Compaq Computer unveils the iPaq H3670 handheld computer. It features 64 MB RAM, Pocket PC OS. Price is to be US$649 when released in early April.
- 2001 - Compaq Computer unveils the iPaq H3635 handheld computer. It features Compact Flash slot, Pocket PC OS. Price is US$599.
- 2003 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer with system unit, monitor, and keyboard are used at an airport complaint desk.
- 2008 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer appears, used to play poker.
- 1955 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring Man in Space.
- 1975 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled The Footloose Goose.
- 1980 - The two-hour Disney TV show The Kids Who Knew Too Much airs.
- 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. Television sets in a department store show a brief piece of the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- 1984 - Roy Disney submits his letter of resignation, removing himself from the Disney board of directors.
- 1984 - Roy Disney purchases more shares of Disney, bringing his stake to 4.7%.
- 1984 - Famed corporate raider Saul Steinberg begins purchasing shares of Walt Disney Productions.
- 1985 - The Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade premieres.
- 1986 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, entitled The Richest Cat in the World.
- 1986 - The Disney Channel airs The Wind in the Willows (a British production).
- 1991 - The CBS TV network airs the last show of the series Lenny.
- 1994 - The TV show Thunder Alley premieres.
- 1994 - The ABC TV network debuts the series These Friends of Mine.
- 1994 - Buena Vista Pictures makes a limited release of the film The Ref to theaters.
- 1999 - The Swiss Family Treehouse at Disneyland closes.
- 2000 - The fifth ESPN Zone opens, in Washington, D.C.
- 2003 - The Jungle Book Carnival at Disneyland Paris ends.
- 2004 - Disney releases Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo on videocassette and DVD in the USA and Canada.
- 2009 - The ABC TV network premieres the Castle series.
- 2003 - The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance is held in Florida. All five original Grand Sport Corvettes are displayed, made possible by organizers Bill Tower and Bill Warner.
- 1938 - Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg calls for a public vote for March 13, to decide if the country should remain independent, or join Germany.
- 1941 - Italian forces begin a final offensive against Greek forces, which are able to hold their positions.
- 1942 - (1200 hours) Dutch colonial authorities surrender the islands of the Netherlands East Indies. All Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies surrender unconditionally to Japan.
- 1942 - (evening) 187 British bombers attack Essen.
- 1943 - German commander in Africa Erwin Rommel takes sick leave to Europe.
- 1945 - General der Infantrie Herman Niehoff officially replaces von Ahlfen as fortress commander of Breslau, Germany.
- 1945 - Japanese forces attack French positions in Indochina.
- 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.
- 2010 - The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus issues two collector coins (1-ruble copper-nickel and 20-ruble 0.925 silver) marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War.
- 1996 - Nintendo announces a delay in introducing the Nintendo 64 in Japan to June 23, due to a lack of chips, and delays in software development.
- 2000 - Nintendo agrees to supply protective sports gloves to American owners of the Mario Party video game for the Nintendo 64. The Attorney General's office of New York had complained to the company after hearing many reports about children being injured playing the game.
- 2004 - Konami releases the Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2005 - In San Francisco, California, the Game Developers Conference is held, over several days. The International Game Developers Association presents the fifth annual Game Developers Choice Awards.
- 2008 - Nintendo releases the Super Smash Bros. Brawl video game for the Nintendo Wii in the USA and Canada.
- 2010 - Square Enix releases the Final Fantasy XIII video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the USA.
- 2010 - Capcom releases the Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
- 1809 - Lieutenant-Colonel Georg Adlersparre, in the officers' corp of the Western Army, begins a march from Karlstad to Stockholm.
- 1971 - A & W International is granted a registered trademark of an image of an oval double-boomerang with letters "A & W".
- 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.
- 1962 - US coin dealer George Walton is killed in a car accident on US 264 highway between Middlesex and Wilson, North Carolina. Among his possessions in his car is believed to be a 1913 Liberty Head Nickel (one of five in existence), which is declared to be an altered date by an auction firm.
- 1965 - The US Treasury Department begins sales of 1965-dated 5-coin Special Mint sets, at US$4 per set. Collectors can buy in lots of 1, 2, 5, or 10.
- 2001 - At an auction in Salt Lake City, Utah, Superior Galleries sells a 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin to Dwight Manley for US$1.84 million.
- 1895 - Stanley Cup: Montréal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ontario) loses to Montréal AAA, 5-1.
- 1923 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in two games.
- 1936 - Babe Ruth turns down Cincinnati Reds to make a comeback as a baseball player.
- 1946 - Ted Williams is offered US$500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses.
- 1947 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill.
- 1947 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button.
- 1949 - England beats South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes.
- 1952 - Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title.
- 1958 - George Yardley (Detroit Pistons) is first NBA player to score 2,000 points in season.
- 1964 - Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma.
- 1971 - J M Noreiga takes 9-95 West Indies versus India at Port-of-Spain.
- 1972 - Players on Chicago White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary.
- 1976 - New York Islanders' Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Saint Louis Blues 4-0.
- 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 - Bowie Kuhn orders Major League Baseball to give equal access to female reporters.
- 1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament.
- 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 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open.
- 1989 - Roger Kingdom runs world record 60 metre hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds).
- 1993 - Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 - Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open.
- 2018 - (to March 18) The 2018 Winter Paralympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
- 2022 - At Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, NHL regular season game: Vancouver Canucks beats Montreal Canadiens by score 5-3.
- 2022 - At Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, NHL regular season game: Edmonton Oilers beats Washington Capitals by score 4-3.
- 1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation.
- 1959 - First known radar contact is made with Venus.
- 1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit.
- 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 - Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km.
- 1991 - US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit.
- 1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands.
- 2006 - NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
- 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.
- 1798 - Dr George Balfour becomes first naval surgeon in the US navy.
- 1822 - Charles M Graham of New York patents artificial teeth.
- 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.
- 1860 - First Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington DC.
- 1862 - Monitor (USA) and Merrimack (CSA) battle in Hampton Roads, ending in a draw.
- 1865 - Hugh McCulloch begins term as Treasury Secretary.
- 1907 - First involuntary sterilization law enacted in USA, in Indiana.
- 1914 - US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico".
- 1916 - General Francisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus, New Mexico, USA (17 killed).
- 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.
- 1942 - Construction of the Alaska Highway begins.
- 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.
- 1949 - American Brigadier General Edwin K Wright ends term as deputy director of Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1950 - Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of US$64,000 in New York City, New York.
- 1954 - First local color TV commercial, on WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City, New York (Castro Decorators).
- 1957 - 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska, USA.
- 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.
- 1962 - US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight.
- 1964 - First Ford Mustang automobile produced.
- 1964 - US Supreme Court issues New York Times versus Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages.
- 1965 - The US Treasury Department begins sales of Special Mint sets, at US$4 per set. Collectors can buy in lots of 1, 2, 5, or 10.
- 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.
- 1976 - First female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy.
- 1977 - Admiral Stansfield Turner, US Navy (Retired), becomes 12th director of US Central Intelligence Agency replacing acting director Knoche.
- 1977 - Hanafi Muslims invade three buildings in Washington DC, siege ends March 11th.
- 1983 - Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
- 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.
- 1986 - 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises US$30,100,000.
- 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.
- 1989 - Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy.
- 1989 - US Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary.
- 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.
- 1991 - 5th American Comedy Awards: Dennis Wolfberg wins.
- 1991 - US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges more than 2,000 points, the largest fall in its history.
- 2023 - In California, USA, Silicon Valley Bank sees withdrawals of $42 billion in a single day.
Other history:
- 1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuts.
- 1964 - First Ford Mustang produced.
- 2008 - General elections in Spain, for 350 members of the Cortes, the lower house of parliament: Socialist Party wins 169 seats, with leader Jose Luis Rodriguez. Popular Party wins 153 seats.
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