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Historical Events on March 9

  • Annals of Quedlinburg

    1009

    First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.

  • Battle of Klokotnitsa

    1230

    Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.

  • Joséphine de Beauharnais

    1796

    Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

  • United States v. The Amistad

    1841

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.

  • Battle of Hampton Roads

    1862

    American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

  • Battle of Columbus (1916)

    1916

    Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.

  • Hein ter Poorten

    1942

    World War II: Dutch East Indies, represented by KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and Japanese completed their Dutchmmjn East Indies campaign.

  • Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    1945

    World War II: The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.

  • March 2012 Gaza-Israel clashes

    2012

    At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza; 12 Palestinians militants are killed as part of the latest escalation in violence in the region.

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