March 9 in history — What Happened Today in History

Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio, following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people.

Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.

Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.

The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.

Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.

Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.

World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.

World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.

World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.

World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrenders to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese complete their Dutch East Indies campaign.

Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.

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

Inter Milan is founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.

Demonstration of 9 March 1883: Parisian anarchists, unemployed and carpenters narrowly miss the Presidential palace during a violent protest; first use of the black flag as a symbol of anarchism by Louise Michel.

American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.

Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.

The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

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.

Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.

Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.

Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations, ushering in the classical period of political economy.

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 died by suicide.

Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation.

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 in 1494.

Suga, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer

Jooyoung, South Korean singer-songwriter

Daley Blind, Dutch footballer

YG, American rapper

Taeyeon, South Korean singer

Daniel Hudson, American baseball player

Bow Wow, American rapper and actor

Bryan Bickell, Canadian ice hockey player

Damien Brunner, Swiss ice hockey player

Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player

Brittany Snow, American actress and producer

Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player

Jesse Litsch, American baseball player

Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (born 1940)

Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (born 1910)

Wilfy Rebimbus, Indian singer (born 1942)

Henry Wittenberg, American wrestler (born 1918)

Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1951)

Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1921)

Tom Fox, American activist (born 1951)

Anna Moffo, American soprano (born 1932)

John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (born 1915)

John Mayer, Indian composer (born 1930)

Stan Brakhage, American director and cinematographer (born 1933)

Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (born 1946)

Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (born 1908)