March 9th, 1968

Born on March 9th, 1968

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What happened on March 9th?

March 9th, 1891

Kaʻiulani (pictured) was appointed heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

March 9th, 1977

Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.

March 9th, 1967

Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.

March 9th, 1959

The popular fashion doll Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.

March 9th, 1956

In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet troops suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

March 9th, 1946

Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.

March 9th, 1945

World War II: In a coup d'état, Imperial Japanese Army officers ousted the government of French Indochina.

March 9th, 1944

World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air Forces heavily bombed Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.

March 9th, 1933

U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.

March 9th, 1932

Éamon de Valera (pictured), a dominant political figure in 20th-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

March 9th, 1925

The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan, in what is now Pakistan.

March 9th, 1862

American Civil War: In the world's first battle between two ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.

March 9th, 1847

Mexican–American War: The Siege of Veracruz began, the first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States military forces.

March 9th, 1842

Nabucco, an opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi that established his reputation, premiered at La Scala in Milan.

March 9th, 1841

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had been taken into slavery illegally.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 9th

Born on March 9th, 1968

56

Rexy Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 9th, 1968, Ternate Island

56

Youri Djorkaeff

French association football player

*March 9th, 1968, Lyon

56

Brian Heidik

American television personality

*March 9th, 1968, Quartz Hill

56

Beniamino Bonomi

Italian sprint canoeist

*March 9th, 1968, Verbania

56

Antoine Mindjimba

French ice hockey player

*March 9th, 1968, Reims

56

Jorge Larrionda

Uruguayan football referee

*March 9th, 1968, Montevideo

56

Sébastien Audigane

French skipper

*March 9th, 1968, Brest

56

Bert Hamelinck

Film producer

*March 9th, 1968, Leuven

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 9th?

44

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

60

Juliette Binoche

French actress, artist and dancer (born 1964)

*March 9th, 1964, Paris

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

34

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)

*March 9th, 1934, Klushino †March 27th, 1968, Novosyolovo

61

Artur Auernhammer

German politician

*March 9th, 1963, Oberhochstatt

32

Cornelia Jakobs

Swedish singer and songwriter (1992–)

*March 9th, 1992, Nacka församling

90

Peter Scholl-Latour

German-French journalist and author (1924-2014)

*March 9th, 1924, Bochum †August 16th, 2014, Rhöndorf

51

Matteo Salvini

Italian politician

*March 9th, 1973, Milan

58

Giorgio Furlan

Road bicycle racer

*March 9th, 1966, Treviso

65

Takaaki Kajita

Japanese physicist and astronomer (1959-)

*March 9th, 1959, Higashimatsuyama

45

Oscar Isaac

American actor (born 1979)

*March 9th, 1979, Guatemala City

55

Kimberly Guilfoyle

American attorney and political campaign advisor

*March 9th, 1969, San Francisco

54

Shannon Leto

American drummer

*March 9th, 1970, Bossier City

41

Roberto Ferrari

Italian racing cyclist

*March 9th, 1983, Gavardo

57

Harry Geithner

Colombian actor, film director and producer

*March 9th, 1967, Bogotá

67

Mark Mancina

American film composer and producer

*March 9th, 1957, Santa Monica

57

Aura Cristina Geithner

Colombian actress

*March 9th, 1967, Bogotá

44

Matthew Gray Gubler

American actor, filmmaker and model

*March 9th, 1980, Las Vegas

93

Walter Kohn

American physicist (1923–2016)

*March 9th, 1923, Vienna †April 19th, 2016, Santa Barbara

33

Brenna O'Brien

Actress

*March 9th, 1991, Brampton

Same year
Born in 1968

55

Casper Van Dien

American actor

*December 18th, 1968, Milton

55

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Danish actress

*November 22nd, 1968, Copenhagen

55

Peter Runggaldier

Italian alpine skier

*December 29th, 1968, Brixen

55

Chris Hunt

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1968, Bolton

55

Massi Furlan

Italian-American actor and film producer

*September 29th, 1968, Treviso

56

Minarti Timur

Indonesian badminton player, coach

*March 24th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Céline Dion

Canadian singer (born 1968)

*March 30th, 1968, Charlemagne

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

55

Darren Le Tissier

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1968, Bailiwick of Guernsey

56

Árni Þór Hallgrímsson

Badminton player

*March 10th, 1968, Akranes

55

Marine Le Pen

French politician (born 1968)

*August 5th, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine

56

Monica Mæland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*February 6th, 1968, Bergen

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

55

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Croatian politician and diplomat

*April 29th, 1968, Rijeka

55

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

55

Ralph Brinkhaus

German politician

*June 15th, 1968, Wiedenbrück

55

Kylie Minogue

Australian singer and actress (born 1968)

*May 28th, 1968, Melbourne

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

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Leap year

Yes: 1968 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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