March 9
1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution.
1841 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. The Amistad, ruled 7-1 in favor of a group of illegally enslaved Africans who were captured off the U.S. coast after seizing control of a Spanish schooner, La Amistad; the justices ruled that the Africans should be set free.
1862 - The first battle between two ironclad ships, the Monitor (Union) and Merrimack (Confederate) occurred during the Civil War, revolutionizing naval warfare.
1916 - More than 400 Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico, killing 18 Americans.
1916 - During the First World War, Germany declared war on Portugal.
1933 - The special session of Congress known as the "100 days" opened, launching President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. B-29 bombers began launching incendiary bomb attacks against Tokyo, resulting in an estimated 100,000 deaths.
1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, raised the standard for public officials to prove they’d been libeled in their official capacity by news organizations.
1976 - A cable car in the Italian ski resort of Cavalese fell some 700 feet to the ground when a supporting line snapped, killing 43 people.
1987 - Chrysler Corp. announced it had agreed to buy the financially ailing American Motors Corp.
1989 - The Senate rejected President George H.W. Bush’s nomination of John Tower to be defense secretary by a vote of 53-47. (The next day, Bush tapped Wyoming Rep. Dick Cheney, who went on to win unanimous Senate approval.)
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as both the first female and Hispanic to be U.S. surgeon general.
1997 - Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) was killed in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; he was 24.
2000 - John McCain suspended his presidential campaign, conceding the Republican nomination to George W. Bush. Bill Bradley ended his presidential bid, conceding the Democratic nomination to Vice President Al Gore.
2020 - An alarmingly sharp slide at the opening bell on Wall Street triggered the first automatic halt in trading in more than two decades; the Dow industrials finished nearly 8% lower.
2022 - A Maryland hospital said the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment.
2022 - Scientists said they had found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice.
Birthdays
20 - Sunisa Lee (gymnast)
24 - Charly Jordan (model)
28 - Cierra Ramirez (actress)
28 - Sanne Vloet (model)
36 - Bow Wow (rapper)
36 - Stacey Dooley (journalist)
37 - Brittany Snow (actress)
40 - Maite Perroni (actress)
43 - Matthew Gray Gubler (actor)
44 - Jordan Klepper (comedian)
44 - Oscar Isaac (actor)
51 - Kerr Smith (actor)
51 - Jean Louisa Kelly (actress)
52 - Emmanuel Lewis (actor)
59 - Juliette Binoche (actress)
64 - Tom Amandes (actor)
65 - Linda Fiorentino (actress)
66 - Faith Daniels (newscaster)
74 - Jaime Lyn Bauer (actress)
75 - Jeffrey Osborne (singer)
80 - Charles Gibson (news anchor)
82 - Trish Van Devere (actress)
89 - Joyce Van Patten (actress)
100 - James L. Buckley (politician)
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Today in Sports History - March 9
1859 - The National Association of Baseball Players adopted the rule that limited the size of bats to no more than 2-1/2 inches in diameter.
1958 - George Yardley (Detroit Pistons) became the first NBA player to score 2,000 points in a season. He did it in 72 games.
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points in a win over the New York Knicks.
1980 - Gordie Howe and his two sons skated on a line together for the Hartford Whalers. National Hockey League history was made when the event occurred about midway through a game against the Boston Bruins.
1984 - Tim Witherspoon won a 12-round decision over Greg Pane to claim the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship.
1995 - Major League Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
2013 - Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF light heavyweight title
1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution.
1841 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. The Amistad, ruled 7-1 in favor of a group of illegally enslaved Africans who were captured off the U.S. coast after seizing control of a Spanish schooner, La Amistad; the justices ruled that the Africans should be set free.
1862 - The first battle between two ironclad ships, the Monitor (Union) and Merrimack (Confederate) occurred during the Civil War, revolutionizing naval warfare.
1916 - More than 400 Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico, killing 18 Americans.
1916 - During the First World War, Germany declared war on Portugal.
1933 - The special session of Congress known as the "100 days" opened, launching President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. B-29 bombers began launching incendiary bomb attacks against Tokyo, resulting in an estimated 100,000 deaths.
1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, raised the standard for public officials to prove they’d been libeled in their official capacity by news organizations.
1976 - A cable car in the Italian ski resort of Cavalese fell some 700 feet to the ground when a supporting line snapped, killing 43 people.
1987 - Chrysler Corp. announced it had agreed to buy the financially ailing American Motors Corp.
1989 - The Senate rejected President George H.W. Bush’s nomination of John Tower to be defense secretary by a vote of 53-47. (The next day, Bush tapped Wyoming Rep. Dick Cheney, who went on to win unanimous Senate approval.)
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as both the first female and Hispanic to be U.S. surgeon general.
1997 - Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) was killed in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; he was 24.
2000 - John McCain suspended his presidential campaign, conceding the Republican nomination to George W. Bush. Bill Bradley ended his presidential bid, conceding the Democratic nomination to Vice President Al Gore.
2020 - An alarmingly sharp slide at the opening bell on Wall Street triggered the first automatic halt in trading in more than two decades; the Dow industrials finished nearly 8% lower.
2022 - A Maryland hospital said the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment.
2022 - Scientists said they had found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice.
Birthdays
20 - Sunisa Lee (gymnast)
24 - Charly Jordan (model)
28 - Cierra Ramirez (actress)
28 - Sanne Vloet (model)
36 - Bow Wow (rapper)
36 - Stacey Dooley (journalist)
37 - Brittany Snow (actress)
40 - Maite Perroni (actress)
43 - Matthew Gray Gubler (actor)
44 - Jordan Klepper (comedian)
44 - Oscar Isaac (actor)
51 - Kerr Smith (actor)
51 - Jean Louisa Kelly (actress)
52 - Emmanuel Lewis (actor)
59 - Juliette Binoche (actress)
64 - Tom Amandes (actor)
65 - Linda Fiorentino (actress)
66 - Faith Daniels (newscaster)
74 - Jaime Lyn Bauer (actress)
75 - Jeffrey Osborne (singer)
80 - Charles Gibson (news anchor)
82 - Trish Van Devere (actress)
89 - Joyce Van Patten (actress)
100 - James L. Buckley (politician)
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Today in Sports History - March 9
1859 - The National Association of Baseball Players adopted the rule that limited the size of bats to no more than 2-1/2 inches in diameter.
1958 - George Yardley (Detroit Pistons) became the first NBA player to score 2,000 points in a season. He did it in 72 games.
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points in a win over the New York Knicks.
1980 - Gordie Howe and his two sons skated on a line together for the Hartford Whalers. National Hockey League history was made when the event occurred about midway through a game against the Boston Bruins.
1984 - Tim Witherspoon won a 12-round decision over Greg Pane to claim the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship.
1995 - Major League Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
2013 - Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF light heavyweight title
