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March 9 is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 297 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 141 BC ...
Bombing of Tokyo. Tokyo burns under B-29 firebomb assault, 26 May 1945. The bombing of Tokyo (東京空襲, Tōkyō kūshū) was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific War in 1944–1945. The raids that were conducted by the U.S. military on the night of 9–10 March 1945, codenamed ...
The American rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G., was murdered in a drive-by shooting in the early hours of March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. He was 24 years old. Prior to the event, Wallace promoted his second studio album Life After Death, and attended an after-party in Los Angeles instead of traveling to ...
March 18, 1945 (Sunday) An air battle was fought in the skies over Berlin when 1,329 Allied bombers and 700 long-range fighters were met by the Luftwaffe using the new Me 262s and air-to-air rockets. The U.S. Eighth Air Force lost six Mustangs and 13 bombers while the Luftwaffe only lost two planes in return despite being outnumbered 32 to 1.
March 9 – By a vote of 53 to 47, the Senate votes to reject the nomination of John Tower as United States Secretary of Defense. President Bush subsequently nominated Dick Cheney the next day, and Cheney was confirmed and sworn in as defense secretary on March 17. March 13 – A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power ...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit confirms a 2016 ruling that Led Zeppelin 's 1971 song "Stairway to Heaven" was not unlawfully copied from Spirit 's instrumental "Taurus", overturning the so-called inverse ratio rule test. (UPI) Month. March 2020. Previous day.
March 6, 1964 (Friday) A 504-foot (154 m) long tanker, the Bunker Hill, exploded and sank in 300-foot (91 m) deep water in Puget Sound near the coast of Anacortes, Washington. Five members of the crew, including the ship's captain, were killed, while the U.S. Coast Guard was able to rescue 25 others from icy water.
The US bear market of 2007–2009 was a 17-month bear market that lasted from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009, during the financial crisis of 2007–2009. The S&P 500 lost approximately 50% of its value, but the duration of this bear market was just below average. The bear market was confirmed in June 2008 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...