Monday, March 11, 2013

March 9 in history


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Events


141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.

632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.

1230 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.

1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.

1500 – 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.

1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1765 – 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.

1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.

1841 – 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.

1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

1847 – Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.

1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

1864 – Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of the Union Army.

1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.

1908 – Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.

1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.

1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.

1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.

1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt calls Congress into a special session beginning the "100 days." He submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.

1944 – World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.

1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.

1945 – Bombing of Tokyo: The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begins, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history, inflicting damage comparable to that inflicted on Hiroshima five months later.

1945 – World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.

1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.

1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.

1956 – Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.

1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Since her debut over a billion have been sold around the world.

1960 – 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.

1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.

1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.

1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.

1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, about a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims seize three buildings in Washington, D.C., killing two and taking 149 hostages. (The siege ended two days later.)

1989 – Financially troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.

1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.

1997 – 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.

2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

2012 – First winter ascent of Gasherbrum I by Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb.

2015 – Two helicopters collided near Villa Castelli, Argentina killing 10 people.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Frances of Rome, Widow.     Double.


Contemporary Western

Catherine of Bologna
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Frances of Rome
Gregory of Nyssa
Pacian
Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox

March 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

Martyr Urpasianus the Senator, at Nicomedia, by being burned alive (c. 305)
The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320):
      Cyrion (or Quirio), Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Heraclius, Smaragdus,
      Eunoicus, Valens, Vivianus, Claudius, Priscus, Theodulus, Eutychius, John,
      Xanthias, Helianus, Sisinius, Angus, Aetius, Flavius, Acacius, Ecdicius,
      Lysimachus, Alexander, Elias, Gorgonius, Theophilus, Dometian, Gaius,
      Leontius, Athanasius, Cyril, Sacerdon, Nicholas, Valerius, Philoctimon,
      Severian, Chudion, Aglaius, and Meliton.
Saint Caesarius of Nazianzus (Caesarios the Doctor), brother of St. Gregory
      the Theologian (369)
Saint Philoromus the Confessor, of Galatia (4th c.)
Saint Tarasius the Wonderworker, of Lycaonia

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Saint Pacianus, Bishop of Barcelona (390)
Saint Constantine of Cornwall and Govan (576)
Saint Bosa of York, Bishop of York (705)
Venerable Vitalis of Castronovo, Sicily (994)
Saint Anthony, a monk at Luxeuil in France, became a hermit in Froidemont
      in Franche-Comté (10th c.)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Saint Jonah, archbishop of Novgorod (1470)
New Martyrs (two priests and forty students) of Momisici (Montenegro) (1688)
Venerable Elder Cleopas of Ostrov-Vvedensky Monastery (1778)
Saint Theodosius Levitsky, priest of Balta (Odessa) (1845)
Saint Dimitra (Ihorova), nun and foundress of the Vvedensk (Vovedenska)
      Convent in Kiev (1878)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyr Mitrophan Buchnoff, Archpriest, of Voronezh (1931)
New Hieromartyr Joasaph (Shakhov), Abbot, of Popovka (Moscow) (1938)
New Hieromartyrs:
     Michael Maslov, Alexis Smirnov, Demetrius Glivenko, Sergius Lebedev,
      Sergius Zvetkov, Priests; and Nicholas Goryunov, Protodeacon (1938)
Virgin-martyrs Natalia Yulianova and Alexandra Samoylovoy (1938)

Other commemorations

"Albazin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos ("The Word Was Made Flesh") (1666)
Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Theophilus (Rossokha) of Kiev (1996)



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