Events
Pre-1600
*
141 BC
__NOTOC__
Year 141 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caepio and Pompeius (or, less frequently, year 613 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 141 BC for this year has been ...
– Liu Che,
posthumously
Posthumous may refer to:
* Posthumous award - an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death
* Posthumous publication – material published after the author's death
* ''Posthumous'' (album), by Warne Marsh, 1987
* ''Posthumous'' (E ...
known as
Emperor Wu of Han
Emperor Wu of Han (156 – 29 March 87BC), formally enshrined as Emperor Wu the Filial (), born Liu Che (劉徹) and courtesy name Tong (通), was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty of ancient China, ruling from 141 to 87 BC. His reign la ...
, assumes the throne over the
Han dynasty
The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) and a warr ...
of China.
*
1009
Year 1009 ( MIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* February 14 or March 9 – The first known mention is made of the name of Lithuania, in connection with the murder of Bruno ...
– First known mention of
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
, in the
annals
Annals ( la, annāles, from , "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record.
Scope
The nature of the distinction between ann ...
of the monastery of
Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg () is a town situated just north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. As an influential and prosperous trading centre during the early Middle Ages, Quedlinburg became a center of in ...
.
*
1226 –
Khwarazmian sultan
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Jalal ad-Din conquers the
Georgian
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Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
capital of
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...
.
*
1230 –
Bulgaria
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n
Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats
Theodore of Epirus in the
Battle of Klokotnitsa
The Battle of Klokotnitsa ( bg, Битката при Клокотница, ''Bitkata pri Klokotnitsa'') occurred on 9 March 1230 near the village of Klokotnitsa (today in Haskovo Province, Bulgaria) between Second Bulgarian Empire and Empire ...
.
*
1500
Year 1500 (Roman numerals, MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The year 1500 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
The year was seen as being especially important by many Christians in Europe, ...
– The fleet of
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral ( or ; born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil. He was the first human in ...
leaves
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
for the
Indies
The East Indies (or simply the Indies), is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery. The Indies refers to various lands in East (disambiguation)#Geography, the East or the Eastern hemisphere, particularly the islands and ...
. The fleet will discover
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas, ; pt, Tratado de Tordesilhas . signed in Tordesillas, Spain on 7 June 1494, and authenticated in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Emp ...
in 1494.
1601–1900
*
1701 –
Safavid
Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...
troops retreat from
Basra
Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...
,
ending a three-year occupation.
*
1765 – After a campaign by the writer
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his ...
, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate
Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in
1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually died by suicide.
*
1776
Events January–February
* January 1 – American Revolutionary War – Burning of Norfolk: The town of Norfolk, Virginia is destroyed, by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces.
* January 1 ...
– ''
The Wealth of Nations
''An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations'', generally referred to by its shortened title ''The Wealth of Nations'', is the ''magnum opus'' of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1 ...
'' by Scottish economist and philosopher
Adam Smith
Adam Smith (baptized 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by some as "The Father of Economics"——— ...
is published.
*
1796
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.)
* February 1 – The capital ...
–
Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
marries his first wife,
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Josephine may refer to:
People
* Josephine (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Josephine (singer), a Greek pop singer
Places
*Josephine, Texas, United States
*Mount Josephine (disambiguation)
* Josephine Count ...
.
*
1811
Events
January–March
* January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana.
* January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Brid ...
– Paraguayan forces defeat
Manuel Belgrano
Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He ...
at the
Battle of Tacuarí
The Battle of Tacuarí (9 March 1811) was a battle in Southern Paraguay between revolutionary forces under the command of General Manuel Belgrano, member of the Primera Junta government of Argentina, and Paraguayan troops under colonel Manuel ...
.
*
1815
Events
January
* January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England.
* January 3 – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussi ...
–
Francis Ronalds
Sir Francis Ronalds FRS (21 February 17888 August 1873) was an English scientist and inventor, and arguably the first electrical engineer. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph over a substantial distance. In 1816 ...
describes the first battery-operated clock in the ''
Philosophical Magazine
The ''Philosophical Magazine'' is one of the oldest scientific journals published in English. It was established by Alexander Tilloch in 1798;John Burnett"Tilloch, Alexander (1759–1825)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Univer ...
''.
*
1841 – The
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
rules in the ''
United States v. The Amistad
''United States v. Schooner Amistad'', 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish schooner ''La Amistad'' in 1839.. It was an unusual freedom suit that in ...
'' case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into
slavery
Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...
illegally.
*
1842
Events
January–March
* January
** Michael Alexander takes office, as the first appointee to the Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem.
** American medical student William E. Clarke of Berkshire Medical College becomes the first pe ...
–
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...
's third opera, ''
Nabucco
''Nabucco'' (, short for Nabucodonosor ; en, " Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, ...
'', receives its première performance in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
* 1842 – The first documented discovery of
gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...
in
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
occurs at
Rancho San Francisco
Rancho San Francisco was a land grant in present-day northwestern Los Angeles County and eastern Ventura County, California. It was a grant of by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Antonio del Valle, a Mexican army officer, in recognition for his ser ...
, six years before the
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California fro ...
.
*
1847 –
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the (''United States intervention in Mexico''), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1 ...
: The first large-scale
amphibious assault
Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach. Through history the operations were conducted ...
in U.S. history is launched in the
Siege of Veracruz
The Battle of Veracruz was a 20-day siege of the key Mexican beachhead seaport of Veracruz during the Mexican–American War. Lasting from March 9–29, 1847, it began with the first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States ...
.
*
1862
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria.
* January 6 – French intervention in Mexico: French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico.
* January ...
–
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
: and (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the
USS ''Merrimack'') fight to a draw in the
Battle of Hampton Roads
The Battle of Hampton Roads, also referred to as the Battle of the ''Monitor'' and ''Virginia'' (rebuilt and renamed from the USS ''Merrimack'') or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War.
It was fought over t ...
, the first battle between two
ironclad warship
An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates, constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. T ...
s.
1901–present
*
1908 –
Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Football in Italy, Italian professional Association football, football ...
was founded on ''Football Club Internazionale'', following a schism from
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...
.
*
1916 –
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...
:
leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in
an attack against the border town of
Columbus, New Mexico
Columbus is a village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, about north of the Mexico–United States border, Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of Battle of Columbus (1916), a 1916 attack by Mexico, ...
.
*
1933 –
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...
: President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
submits the
Emergency Banking Act
__NOTOC__
The Emergency Banking Act (EBA) (the official title of which was the Emergency Banking Relief Act), Public Law 73-1, 48 Stat. 1 (March 9, 1933), was an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize th ...
to Congress, the first of his
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Cons ...
policies.
*
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
–
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
:
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...
unconditionally surrendered to the
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
forces in Kalijati,
Subang
Subang may refer to:
Indonesia
* Subang, Kuningan, a town and district in Kuningan Regency, West Java
* Subang Regency, a regency of West Java
** Subang, Subang, a town and district in Subang Regency, West Java
Malaysia
*Subang (federal constitue ...
,
West Java
West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...
, and the Japanese completed their
Dutch East Indies campaign
The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces from the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Forces from the Allies attempted u ...
.
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
– World War II:
Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
*
1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
Januar ...
– World War II:
A coup d'état by Japanese forces in
French Indochina
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China),; vi, Đông Dương thuộc Pháp, , lit. 'East Ocean under French Control; km, ឥណ្ឌូចិនបារាំង, ; th, อินโดจีนฝรั่งเศส, ...
removes the French from power.
* 1945 – World War II:
Allied forces carry out
firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.
*
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
–
Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's ...
stadium disaster at
Burnden Park
Burnden Park was the home of English football club Bolton Wanderers who played home games there between 1895 and 1997. As well as hosting the 1901 FA Cup Final replay, it was the scene in 1946 of one of the greatest disasters in English footba ...
,
Bolton
Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly a part of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area i ...
, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
*
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
–
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making false or unfounded accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to anarchism, communism and socialism, and especially when done in a public and attention-grabbing manner.
The term origin ...
:
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
television broadcasts the ''
See It Now
''See It Now'' is an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, with Murrow as the host of the show. From 1952 to 1957, ''See It Now'' won four Emmy ...
'' episode, "A Report on Senator
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visi ...
", produced by
Fred Friendly
Fred W. Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer, October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program ''See It Now''. He originated the concept ...
.
*
1956 –
Soviet forces
The Soviet Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and as the Red Army (, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1991), and th ...
suppress
mass demonstrations in the
Georgian SSR
The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; ka, საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, tr; russian: Грузинская Советская Соц ...
, reacting to
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...
's
de-Stalinization
De-Stalinization (russian: десталинизация, translit=destalinizatsiya) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension ...
policy.
*
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
– The 8.6
Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the
Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (; ; ale, Unangam Tanangin,”Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi language, Chukchi ''aliat'', "island"), also called the Aleut Islands or Aleutic Islands and known before 1867 as the Catherine Archipelago, are a cha ...
, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
*
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
– The
Barbie
Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched on March 9, 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.
...
doll makes its debut at the
American International Toy Fair in New York.
*
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
– Dr.
Belding Hibbard Scribner
Belding Hibbard Scribner (January 18, 1921 – June 19, 2003) was an American physician and a pioneer in kidney dialysis.
Biography
Scribner received his medical degree from Stanford University in 1945. After completing his postgraduate stu ...
implants for the first time a
shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive
hemodialysis
Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of purifying the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinin ...
on a regular basis.
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 ...
–
Sputnik 9
Korabl-Sputnik 4 (russian: Корабль-Спутник 4 meaning ''Ship-Satellite 4'') or Vostok-3KA No.1, also known as Sputnik 9 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched on 9 March 1961. Carrying the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, ...
successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
was ready to begin
human spaceflight
Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew. Spacecraft can also be ...
.
*
1967 –
Trans World Airlines
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline which operated from 1930 until 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with F ...
Flight 553 crashes in a field in
Concord Township, Ohio following a
mid-air collision
In aviation, a mid-air collision is an aviation accident, accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and the likelihood of subsequent impact with the ground o ...
with a
Beechcraft Baron
The Beechcraft Baron is a light twin-engined piston aircraft designed and produced by Beechcraft. The aircraft was introduced in 1961. A low-wing monoplane developed from the Travel Air, it remains in production.
Design and development
The di ...
, killing 26 people.
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
– The
Mars 7
Mars 7 (), also known as 3MP No.51P was a Soviet Union, Soviet spacecraft launched in 1973 to explore Mars. A 3MP bus spacecraft which comprised the final mission of the Mars programme, it consisted of a Lander (spacecraft), lander and a coast st ...
Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
*
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
– Forty-two people die in the
Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
*
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
– The
Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed
Hanafi
The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named aft ...
Muslims seize three
Washington, D.C.
)
, image_skyline =
, image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...
, buildings.
*
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
– President
Soeharto
Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto ...
inaugurated
Jagorawi Toll Road
The Jakarta–Bogor–Ciawi Toll Road (shortened to Jagorawi Toll Road) is the first toll road in Indonesia. Construction of the highway began in 1973, and it was officially opened on 9 March 1978.
The Jagorawi Toll Road links the capital city ...
, the first
toll highway
A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a controlled-access highway in the present day) for which a fee (or '' toll'') is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemente ...
in
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
, connecting
Jakarta
Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...
,
Bogor
Bogor ( su, , nl, Buitenzorg) is a city in the West Java province, Indonesia. Located around south of the national capital of Jakarta, Bogor is the 6th largest city in the Jakarta metropolitan area and the 14th overall nationwide.[West Java
West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...]
.
*
1987
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–
Chrysler
Stellantis North America (officially FCA US and formerly Chrysler ()) is one of the " Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the American subsidiary of the multinational automoti ...
announces its acquisition of
American Motors Corporation
American Motors Corporation (AMC; commonly referred to as American Motors) was an American automobile manufacturing company formed by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company on May 1, 1954. At the time, it was the ...
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
–
Comet Hale–Bopp
Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades.
Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp discovered Comet Hale–Bopp separately ...
: Observers in China,
Mongolia
Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...
and eastern
Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...
are treated to a rare double feature as an
eclipse
An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. This alignment of three ce ...
permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day. As the comet made its closest approach to Earth on March 26, all 39 active members of the
Heaven's Gate cult committed ritual mass suicide over a period of three days, in the belief that their spirits would be teleported into an alien spacecraft flying inside the comet's tail.
* 1997 –
The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper. Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta ...
is
murdered
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the c ...
in
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
after attending the
Soul Train Music Awards
The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual music awards show which previously aired in national broadcast syndication, and honors the best in African-American culture, music and entertainment. It is produced by the makers of ''Soul Train'', the pro ...
. He is gunned down leaving an after party at the
Petersen Automotive Museum
The Petersen Automotive Museum is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. One of the world's largest automotive museums, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit organization specializi ...
. His murder remains unsolved.
*
2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
–
Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' makes its final landing after 39 flights.
Births
Pre-1600
*
1451 –
Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer, namesake of the
Americas
The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
Along with th ...
(d. 1512)
*
1564 –
David Fabricius David Fabricius (9 March 1564 – 7 May 1617) was a German pastor who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587–1615).
David Fabricius (Latinization of his proper n ...
, German theologian, cartographer and astronomer (d. 1617)
*
1568
Year 1568 ( MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 6– 13 – In the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the delegates of Unio Tr ...
–
Aloysius Gonzaga
Aloysius de Gonzaga ( it, Luigi Gonzaga; 9 March 156821 June 1591) was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epid ...
, Italian saint, namesake of
Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University (GU) () is a private Jesuit university in Spokane, Washington. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Founded in 1887 by Joseph Cataldo, an Italian-born priest and Jesuit missionary, the univ ...
(d. 1591)
1601–1900
*
1662 –
Franz Anton von Sporck
Franz Anton von Sporck, Count (german: Franz Anton Reichsgraf von Sporck, cs, František Antonín hrabě Špork) (9 March 1662 in Lysá nad Labem or Heřmanův Městec – 30 March 1738 in Lysá nad Labem) was a German-speaking literatus an ...
, German noble (d. 1738)
*
1697 –
Friederike Caroline Neuber
Friederike Caroline Neuber, née Friederike Caroline Weissenborn, also known as Friedericke Karoline Neuber, Frederika Neuber, Karoline Neuber, Carolina Neuber, Frau Neuber, and ''Die Neuberin'' (9 March 1697 – 30 November 1760), was a German ...
, German actress (d. 1760)
*
1737
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parma a ...
–
Josef Mysliveček
Josef Mysliveček (9 March 1737 – 4 February 1781) was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant comp ...
, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1781)
*
1749 –
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (; 9 March 17492 April 1791) was a leader of the early stages of the French Revolution. A noble, he had been involved in numerous scandals before the start of the Revolution in 1789 that had left his re ...
, French journalist and politician (d. 1791)
*
1753 –
Jean-Baptiste Kléber
Jean-Baptiste Kléber () (9 March 1753 – 14 June 1800) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. After serving for one year in the French Royal Army, he entered Habsburg service seven years later. However, his plebeian ances ...
, French general (d. 1800)
*
1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
–
Franz Joseph Gall
Franz Josef Gall (; 9 March 175822 August 1828) was a German neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain.
Claimed as the founder of the pseudoscience of phrenology, Gall was an earl ...
, German neuroanatomist and physiologist (d. 1828)
*
1763
Events
January–March
* January 27 – The seat of colonial administration in the Viceroyalty of Brazil is moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro.
* February 1 – The Royal Colony of North Carolina officially creates Meck ...
–
William Cobbett
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign ...
, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
*
1806
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon.
* January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall ...
–
Edwin Forrest
Edwin Forrest (March 9, 1806December 12, 1872) was a prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849.
Early life
Forrest was born i ...
, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
*1814 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1861)
*
1815
Events
January
* January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England.
* January 3 – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussi ...
– David Davis (Supreme Court justice), David Davis, American jurist and politician (d. 1886)
*1820 – Samuel Blatchford, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1893)
*1824 – Amasa Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (d. 1893)
*
1847 – Martin Pierre Marsick, Belgian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)
*1850 – Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (d. 1925)
*1856 – Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (d. 1928)
*1863 – Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (d. 1950)
*1887 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (d. 1976)
*1890 – Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer and lieutenant (d. 1915)
* 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union), Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)
*1891 – Jose P. Laurel, José P. Laurel, Filipino lawyer, politician and President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
*1892 – Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian politician (d. 1971)
* 1892 – Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet, and gardener (d. 1962)
1901–present
*1902 – Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
*1904 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American soldier and engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (d. 2002)
*1910 – Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (d. 1981)
*1911 – Clara Rockmore, American classical violin prodigy and theremin player, (d. 1998)
*1915 – Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer), Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (d. 2001)
*1918 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American sailor and politician, founded the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
* 1918 – Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (d. 2006)
*1920 – Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (d. 2015)
*1921 – Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
*1922 – Ian Turbott, New Zealand-Australian former diplomat and university administrator (d. 2016)
*1923 – James L. Buckley, American lawyer, judge, and politician
* 1923 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
* 1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
*1926 – Joe Franklin, American radio and television host (d. 2015)
*1928 – Gerald Bull, Canadian-American engineer and academic (d. 1990)
* 1928 – Keely Smith, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
*1929 – Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer, politician and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
* 1929 – Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (d. 2013)
*1930 – Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2015)
*1931 – Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician (d. 2014)
*1932 – Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 2014)
* 1932 – Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican-American astrologer and actor (d. 2019)
*
1933 – Lloyd Price, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2021)
* 1933 – David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic (d. 2018)
*1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut, first human in space (d. 1968)
* 1934 – Joyce Van Patten, American actress
*1935 – Andrew Viterbi, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Qualcomm, Qualcomm Inc.
*1936 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist
* 1936 – Marty Ingels, American actor and comedian (d. 2015)
*1937 – Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer, politician and Premier of Quebec (d. 2018)
* 1937 – Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
* 1937 – Brian Redman, English race car driver
*1940 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1994)
*1941 – Jim Colbert, American golfer
* 1941 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (d. 1976)
*
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
– John Cale, Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer
* 1942 – Ion Caramitru, Romanian actor and artistic director (d. 2021)
* 1942 – Mark Lindsay, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer
*1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (d. 2008)
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
– Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
*
1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
Januar ...
– Robert Calvert, English singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 1988)
* 1945 – Robin Trower, English rock guitarist and vocalist
* 1945 – Dennis Rader, Dennis Rader (The BTK strangler) American serial killer.
*
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
– Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (d. 2014)
* 1946 – Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1990)
* 1946 – Bernd Hölzenbein, German footballer and scout
*1947 – Keri Hulme, New Zealand author and poet
*1948 – Emma Bonino, Italian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Italy), Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
* 1948 – Eric Fischl, American painter and sculptor
* 1948 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer
*1949 – Neil Hamilton (politician), Neil Hamilton, Welsh lawyer and politician
*1950 – Doug Ault, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
* 1950 – Andy North, American golfer
* 1950 – Howard Shelley, English pianist and conductor
*1951 – Helen Zille, South African journalist, politician and Premier of the Western Cape
*1952 – Bill Beaumont, English rugby player and manager
*
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
– Carlos Ghosn, Brazilian-Lebanese-French business executive
* 1954 – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PIRA volunteer; Irish republican politician (d. 1981)
* 1954 – Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle racer (d. 1982)
*1955 – Teo Fabi, Italian race car driver
* 1955 – Józef Pinior, Polish academic and politician
*
1956 – Mark Dantonio, American football player and coach
* 1956 – Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Minister of External Affairs (India), Indian Minister of External Affairs
* 1956 – David Willetts, English academic and politician
*1958 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress
* 1958 – Paul MacLean (ice hockey), Paul MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
– Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1959 – Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter
*
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
– Finn Carter, American actress
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 ...
– Rick Steiner, American wrestler
* 1961 – Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach
*1963 – Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
* 1963 – Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2021)
*1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress
* 1964 – Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach
*1965 – Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor
* 1965 – Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
*1966 – Brendan Canty, American drummer and songwriter
* 1966 – Tony Lockett, Australian footballer
*1968 – Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
*1969 – Kimberly Guilfoyle, American lawyer and journalist
*1970 – Naveen Jindal, Indian businessman and politician
* 1970 – Martin Johnson (rugby union), Martin Johnson, English rugby player and coach
*1971 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor, played the title role in the TV sitcom Webster (TV series), ''Webster''
*1972 – Jodey Arrington, United States politician
*1973 – Liam Griffin (racing driver), Liam Griffin, English race car driver
*1975 – Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentinian footballer
*
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
– Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
* 1977 – Mark Tookey, Australian rugby league player
*1979 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
*1980 – Chingy, Howard Bailey Jr. (Chingy), American rapper
* 1980 – Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor.
*1981 – Antonio Bryant, American football player
* 1981 – Clay Rapada, American baseball player
*1982 – Ryan Bayley, Australian cyclist
* 1982 – Matt Bowen, Australian rugby league player
* 1982 – Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player
*1983 – Wayne Simien, American basketball player
* 1983 – Clint Dempsey, American international soccer player
*1984 – Abdoulay Konko, French footballer
* 1984 – Julia Mancuso, American skier
*1985 – Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1985 – Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
* 1985 – Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan race car driver
* 1985 – Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer
*1986 – Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1986 – Brittany Snow, American actress and producer
*
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
– Bow Wow (rapper), Shad Moss (Bow Wow), American rapper and actor
*1989 – Taeyeon, Kim Tae-yeon (Taeyeon), South Korean singer
*1990 – Daley Blind, Dutch footballer
* 1990 – Matt Robinson (rugby league), Matt Robinson, New Zealand rugby league player
* 1990 – YG (rapper), Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson (YG), American rapper
*1991 – Jooyoung, Kim Joo-young (Jooyoung), South Korean singer-songwriter
*1993 – Suga (rapper), Min Yoon-gi (Suga), South Korean rapper, songwriter, record producer
*1994 – Morgan Rielly, Canadian ice hockey player
*1995 – Cierra Ramirez, American actress and singer
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
– Chika (rapper), Jane Chika Oranika (Chika), American rapper
*1998 – Najee Harris, American football running back
*2000 – Khaby Lame, Khabane Lame (Khaby Lame), Senegalese-Italian social media personality
Deaths
Pre-1600
* 886 – Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Muslim scholar and Astrology in medieval Islam, astrologer (b. 787)
*1202 – Sverre of Norway, Monarchy of Norway, king of Norway and founder of the House of Sverre
*1440 – Frances of Rome, Italian nun and saint (b. 1384)
*1444 – Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist (b. c.1370)
*1463 – Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun and saint (d. 1463)
*1566 – David Rizzio, Italian-Scottish courtier and politician (b. 1533).
1601–1900
*1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, (b. 1606)
* 1649 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier and politician (b. 1590)
*1661 – Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1602)
*1709 – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English courtier and politician (b. 1638)
*1808 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (b. 1739)
*1810 – Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
*1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, author, and critic (b. 1743)
*1831 – Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger, German author and playwright (b. 1752)
*
1847 – Mary Anning, English Paleontology, paleontologist (b. 1799)
*1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist, discovered electromagnetism and the element aluminium (b. 1777)
*1876 – Louise Colet, French poet (b. 1810)
*1888 – William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
*1895 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1836)
*1897 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (b. 1825)
1901–present
*1918 – Frank Wedekind, German author and playwright (b. 1864)
*1925 – Willard Metcalf, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
*1926 – Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (b. 1865)
*1937 – Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (b. 1864)
*1943 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
*
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
– Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
*1955 – Miroslava Stern, Miroslava Stern (Miroslava), Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
*1964 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
*1969 – Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
*1971 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Coptic Orthodox Pope (b. 1902)
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
– Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
* 1974 – Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
*1983 – Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
* 1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
*1988 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
*1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
*1991 – Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
*1992 – Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
*1993 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
*1994 – Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1920)
* 1994 – Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (b. 1928)
* 1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
*1996 – George Burns, American comedian, actor, and writer (b. 1896)
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
– Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (b. 1952)
* 1997 – Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
* 1997 –
The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper. Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta ...
, American rapper, songwriter, and actor (b. 1972)
*1999 – Harry Somers, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1925)
* 1999 – George Singh, Belizean jurist and Chief Justice of Belize (b. 1937)
*2000 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1908)
*2003 – Stan Brakhage, American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
* 2003 – Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
*2004 – John Mayer (composer), John Mayer, Indian composer (b. 1930)
*2006 – Tom Fox (Quaker), Tom Fox, American activist (b. 1951)
* 2006 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
* 2006 – John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1915)
*2007 – Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
* 2007 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
*2010 – Willie Davis (baseball), Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1940)
* 2010 – Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (b. 1910)
*
2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
– David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (b. 1929)
*2013 – Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat
* 2013 – Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (b. 1928)
*2015 – James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and politician (b. 1920)
*2016 – Robert Horton (actor), Robert Horton, American actor (b. 1924)
* 2016 – Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
*2017 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter (b. 1932)
*2018 – Jo Min-ki, Korean actor (b. 1965)
*2020 – John Bathersby, Australian Catholic bishop (b. 1936)
*2021 – James Levine, American conductor and pianist (b. 1943)
* 2021 – Roger Mudd, American journalist (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances
*Christian feast day:
**Catherine of Bologna
**Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
**Frances of Rome
**Pacian
**Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Church)
**Gregory of Nyssa (Episcopal Church (United States))
** March 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Teachers' Day or ''Eid Al Moalim'' (Lebanon)
References
Sources
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External links
BBC: On This Day*
Historical Events on March 9
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Days of the year
March