Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9

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  Giuseppe Verdi
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  "The Oak of the Golden Dream"
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  Battle of Hampton Roads
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  Costume sketch for the original production of Nabucco
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  Éamon de Valera
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  Bust of Adam Smith
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  The Battle of Hampton Roads, 1862
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  Svetlana Alliluyeva
• Vivian Stranders
  Vivian Stranders

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141 BC – Emperor Wu of China's Han Dynasty began a reign that would last over 50 years.	refimprove section
1276 – Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire became a free imperial city.	refimprove section
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had been taken into slavery illegally.	US v Amistad: unreferenced section, lots of CN tags; Amistad: date not in article, lots of CN tags
1945 – [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]]: In a coup d'état, Imperial Japanese Army officers ousted the government of French Indochina.	citations needed
1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan.	refimprove section
1976 – 1976 Cavalese cable car crash	cleanup required
1978 – The Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, was inaugurated by President Suharto.	tagged, also out of date
1991 – A mass rally in Belgrade turned into a riot featuring vicious clashes between the protesters and police, leaving at least two people dead.	refimprove
2010 – The first legal U.S. same-sex marriages south of the Mason–Dixon line took place in the District of Columbia.	outdated look
2012 – Israel carried out a targeted air strike in the Gaza Strip, beginning three weeks of clashes with Palestinian militant groups.	neutrality issues
Vyacheslav Molotov |b|1890	unreferenced list of decorations (2022)

Eligible

• 1009 – The first recorded use of the name of Lithuania appeared in Latin in the Annals of Quedlinburg, written in Saxony-Anhalt, present-day Germany.
• 1842 – Awaking from a nap under a tree at Rancho San Francisco, Francisco López made the first popularly documented discovery of gold in California.
• 1842 – Nabucco, an opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi that established his reputation, premiered at La Scala in Milan.
• 1847 – Mexican–American War: The Siege of Veracruz began, the first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States military forces.
• 1862 – American Civil War: In the world's first battle between two ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
• 1910 – A seventeen-month-long strike, which at its peak involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• 1927 – Former Royal Air Force officer Vivian Stranders (pictured) was convicted of industrial espionage by a French court.
• 1932 – Éamon de Valera (pictured), a dominant political figure in 20th-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
• 1933 – U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 1944 – World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air Forces heavily bombed Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
• 1946 – Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
• 1959 – The popular fashion doll Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
• 1967 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
• 1977 – Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.
• Born/died this day: | Mary Anning |d|1847| Eddie Foy Sr. |b|1856| Mary Harris Armor |b|1863| Herbert Maryon |b|1874| Jane Joseph |d|1929| Qayyum Chowdhury |b|1932| Yuri Gagarin |b|1934| Takaaki Kajita |b|1959| Yuki Mamiya |b|1991| Marcus Fernaldi Gideon |b|1991| The Notorious B.I.G. |d|1997| George Singh |d|1999

Notes

• La traviata (another Verdi opera) appears on March 6, so Nabucco should not appear in the same year.

March 9: Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2026); National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2026) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1776 – Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes his book The Wealth of Nations, the first classical treatise on political economy.
• 1891 – Kaʻiulani (pictured) was appointed the heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
• 1925 – The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan, present-day Pakistan.
• 1956 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, soldiers suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization.
• 1957 – The Andreanof Islands earthquake struck Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, causing more than $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.