History Events on March 09
![Cavalese cable car disaster (1976)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilter1b9gN2HPBSKEaDoYzuqC.jpg?generation=1608808815920432&alt=media)
Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
#Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1976)
![Inter Milan](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilter2m8a4yeMxMi0qVhaXEPn.png?generation=1608808816765801&alt=media)
Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
#Inter_Milan
![The Wealth of Nations](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilter42rjKRPdgL9q0IxB4oo9.jpg?generation=1608808817162504&alt=media)
The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
#The_Wealth_of_Nations
![Giuseppe Verdi](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilter5BrpMdtyo3whuLPS7thI.jpg?generation=1608808817538919&alt=media)
Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
#Giuseppe_Verdi
![World War II](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilter5vcXVh8v2d240zwjZGWN.jpg?generation=1608808817968178&alt=media)
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 the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
#World_War_II
![Mars 7](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilter7vZxKLuyjJS1qv5gf3Ea.gif?generation=1608808818762557&alt=media)
The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
#Mars_7
![Suharto](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilter83RFTZ2HOPq3HSDf5382.jpg?generation=1608808819231811&alt=media)
President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
#Suharto
![Augsburg](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilter9zskkiiBEFLBNKnBFWmi.jpg?generation=1608808819684310&alt=media)
Augsburg becomes a Free imperial city.
#Augsburg
![Gold](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterDdP9bgQGsVHysPVfRQre.jpg?generation=1608808820132613&alt=media)
The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
#Gold
![Voltaire](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterFDQmRwQjgmW95nO8oStv.png?generation=1608808820930126&alt=media)
After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, 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 committed suicide.
#Voltaire
![Napoleon](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterIS9vvmg7e26OIreYzvo6.png?generation=1608808821925968&alt=media)
Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
#Napoleon
![Francis Ronalds](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterISkZrA7dJ4pS13Ji9GNM.jpg?generation=1608808822323458&alt=media)
Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
#Francis_Ronalds
Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
#Manuel_Belgrano
![McCarthyism](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterNgQeeFihzywMyQRMg3vq.png?generation=1608808823497202&alt=media)
McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
#McCarthyism
![Bombing of Tallinn in World War II](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterNsZi6xBzvZu6zxLSYo0e.jpg?generation=1608808823896788&alt=media)
World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
#Bombing_of_Tallinn_in_World_War_II
![American Civil War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterRsYKd1sVTXRqzgVUIqoc.png?generation=1608808824689789&alt=media)
American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
#American_Civil_War
![Bulgaria](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterSOgZHHmgK9cYJeGGyQEL.png?generation=1608808825151661&alt=media)
Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
#Bulgaria
![Pedro Álvares Cabral](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterUQrnbL9OJanas6HVmQuR.jpg?generation=1608808825529264&alt=media)
The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
#Pedro_Álvares_Cabral
![1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterUhuBxIcPe3wSNHe0HhGd.png?generation=1608808826905242&alt=media)
The 8.6 Mw? Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami that affected Hawaii, where two people were killed in a plane crash while documenting its arrival.
#1957_Andreanof_Islands_earthquake
![Barbie](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterWCYxLfdEboU4XBGkeq0L.png?generation=1608808827786735&alt=media)
The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
#Barbie
![Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterWdOTzo4keBW79G7TyG9l.jpg?generation=1608808828229607&alt=media)
World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
#Japanese_coup_d'état_in_French_Indochina
Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
#Khwarazmian_dynasty
![Mexican-American War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterYQaZWtgyYJrKJZ2m0f0I.png?generation=1608808829801646&alt=media)
Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
#Mexican-American_War
![Great Depression](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfiltercLLpWpgsqzcou1X1E7rV.jpg?generation=1608808830255641&alt=media)
Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
#Great_Depression
![Red Army](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfiltercQmSbuMcwiTX0D7YcqZh.png?generation=1608808831055689&alt=media)
Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
#Red_Army
![Space Shuttle Discovery](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfiltercoZTRZeC8mCpW2UUK9W6.jpg?generation=1608808831478459&alt=media)
Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
#Space_Shuttle_Discovery
![David Rizzio](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterfhomGMQeDBydwcxKRrOI.png?generation=1608808832294045&alt=media)
David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
#David_Rizzio
![Lithuania](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterhBguOmxCi7bi6dCRnQy5.png?generation=1608808833082443&alt=media)
First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
#Lithuania
![Supreme Court of the United States](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilteriyabUvsSpCKGToVXYuI2.png?generation=1608808833861786&alt=media)
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.
#Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
![Comet Hale-Bopp](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterkWjPidpui4GrwNmOLa8u.jpg?generation=1608808834271869&alt=media)
Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
#Comet_Hale-Bopp
![Gaza Strip](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterlZ7xye6qXylfRuLoq0uW.png?generation=1608808834747305&alt=media)
At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza. Twelve Palestinians militants are killed as part of the latest escalation in violence in the region.
#Gaza_Strip
![Francesco Crispi](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffiltervrygs4sW7kpTHgfBcLES.jpg?generation=1608808835163211&alt=media)
Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.
#Francesco_Crispi
![Mexican Revolution](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2Ffilterx30fCnCCDYjejeegJdXL.jpg?generation=1608808835600247&alt=media)
Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
#Mexican_Revolution
![Pink's War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_09%2FfilterxxsFT0hxC89g57k3G7OL.png?generation=1608808836377932&alt=media)
Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
#Pink's_War