Daily Calendar for March 9th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• Belize: Baron Bliss Day

• St. Frances of Rome: Feast Day

1450s

• Born 1454: Amerigo Vespucci (merchant & navigator)

1790s

• 1796: Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris--he arrived two hours late for the wedding225 Years Ago

1800s

• Born 1806: Edwin Forrest (Shakespearean actor)

1820s

• 1820: President James Monroe's daughter, Maria, became the first daughter of a president to be married in the White House

• 1822: A patent for artificial teeth was granted to Charles Graham of New York

1830s

• 1832: Abraham Lincoln announced he was running for his first political office. He failed for his bid for a seat in the Illinois legislature

1860s

• 1860: First Japanese Ambassador to U.S. arrived in San Francisco, CA

• 1862: Battle of U.S.S. Monitor and U.S.S. Merrimack (renamed C.S.S. Virginia) ended in a draw

1900s

• Born 1902: Will Geer (actor)

1910s

• Born 1910: Samuel Barber (composer)

• Born 1918: Mickey Spillane (author)

1930s

• 1932: First V-8 Ford was built by Ford Motor Company

• 1933: The Hundred Days began. President FDR pushed sweeping social and economic reforms of the New Deal through Congress within the next 100 days

• Born 1934: Yuri Gagarin (first human to travel in space)

1940s

• Born 1940: Raul Julia (actor)

• Born 1943: Charles Gibson (journalist)

• Born 1943: Bobby Fischer (champion chess player)

• Born 1947: David Hume Kennerly (photographer)

1950s

• 1954: Journalist Edward R. Murrow accused Sen. McCarthy of misleading the U.S. public and persecuting Congressional witnesses

• 1955: Celebrity premiere of East of Eden, the film version of John Stienbeck's novel

• 1959: Barbie doll debuted

1960s

• 1961: The first animal to return from space was a dog whose Russian name translated as Blackie, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 9

• Born 1964: Juliette Binoche (actress)

• 1969: The Smothers Brothers' television show was cancelled after they refused to censor a comment made by Joan Baez. She wanted to dedicate her song to her husband, David, who was about to go to jail for objecting to the draft

1970s

• Born 1971: Emmanuel Lewis (actor)

• 1975: Work began on the 789-mile Alaskan oil pipeline, the largest private construction project in U.S. history

• 1977: Health and Welfare Canada banned saccharin as a food additive

1980s

• 1983: Anne M. Burford was forced to resign as head of the EPA following a dispute with Congress over the agency's enforcement of toxic waste regulations

• 1987: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and Carole Bayer Sager were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

• Born 1987: Lil' Bow Wow (rapper, actor)

• 1989: President George H. W. Bush's nominee for defense secratary, John Tower, lost Senate ratification vote

1990s

• Died 1994: Charles Bukowski (poet)

• Died 1994: Fernando Rey (actor)

• Died 1996: George Burns (comedian & actor)

2000s

• Died 2005: Chris LeDoux (country musician)

• Died 2007: Brad Delp (musician)

2010s

• Died 2010: Doris "Granny D" Haddock (political activist)

• 2017: Chris Bertish, a South African surfer, paddleboarded across the Atlantic solo. The 4,050 trek took him 93 days.