Daily Calendar for Tuesday, March 9, 2027
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Tuesday, March 9, 2027
Born
- Amerigo Vespucci (merchant & navigator) –
- Edwin Forrest (Shakespearean actor) –
- Will Geer (actor) –
- Samuel Barber (composer) –
- Mickey Spillane (author) –
- Yuri Gagarin (first human to travel in space) –
- Raul Julia (actor) –
- Mark Lindsay (musician; member of Paul Revere & the Raiders ) –
- Charles Gibson (journalist) –
- Bobby Fischer (champion chess player) –
- David Hume Kennerly (photographer) –
- Juliette Binoche (actress) –
- Emmanuel Lewis (actor) –
- Lil' Bow Wow (rapper, actor) –
- Sunisa "Suni" Lee (Olympic gymnast) –
Died
- Charles Bukowski (poet) –
- Fernando Rey (actor) –
- George Burns (comedian & actor) –
- Chris LeDoux (country musician) –
- Brad Delp (musician) –
- Doris "Granny D" Haddock (political activist) –
Events
- Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris—he arrived two hours late for the wedding –
- President James Monroe’s daughter, Maria, became the first daughter of a president to be married in the White House –
- A patent for artificial teeth was granted to Charles Graham of New York –
- Abraham Lincoln announced he was running for his first political office. He failed for his bid for a seat in the Illinois legislature –
- First Japanese Ambassador to U.S. arrived in San Francisco, CA –
- Battle of U.S.S. Monitor and U.S.S. Merrimack (renamed C.S.S. Virginia) ended in a draw –
- First V-8 Ford was built by Ford Motor Company –
- The Hundred Days began. President FDR pushed sweeping social and economic reforms of the New Deal through Congress within the next 100 days –
- Journalist Edward R. Murrow accused Sen. McCarthy of misleading the U.S. public and persecuting Congressional witnesses –
- Celebrity premiere of East of Eden, the film version of John Stienbeck’s novel –
- Mattel unveils the Barbie doll at the New York Toy Fair –
- The first animal to return from space was a dog whose Russian name translated as Blackie, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 9 –
- 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 –
- Work began on the 789-mile Alaskan oil pipeline, the largest private construction project in U.S. history –
- Health and Welfare Canada banned saccharin as a food additive –
- 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 –
- Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and Carole Bayer Sager were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame –
- President George H. W. Bush’s nominee for defense secratary, John Tower, lost Senate ratification vote –
- Chris Bertish, a South African surfer, paddleboarded across the Atlantic solo. The 4,050 trek took him 93 days. –
Weather
- Twelve-inch snowstorm in narrow band from Louisville, Kentucky, into Virginia and North Carolina’s mountains –
- Southern Indiana received up to 9 inches of snow –