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What happened in history on this day: March 9?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On March 9 in ...
- 1984 - Intel and IBM announce a licensing agreement for IBM to manufacture, for its own use, processors based on Intel designs.
- 1989 - In the TV show Days of Our Lives, a Commodore 64 computer is shown.
- 2001 - Compaq Computer unveils the iPaq H3670 handheld computer. It features 64 MB RAM, Pocket PC OS. Price is to be US$649 when released in early April.
- 2001 - Compaq Computer unveils the iPaq H3635 handheld computer. It features Compact Flash slot, Pocket PC OS. Price is US$599.
- 2003 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer with system unit, monitor, and keyboard are used at an airport complaint desk.
- 1955 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring Man in Space.
- 1975 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled The Footloose Goose.
- 1980 - The two-hour Disney TV show The Kids Who Knew Too Much airs.
- 1984 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Splash to theaters in the US. This is the first film release from Touchstone Pictures. Television sets in a department store show a brief piece of the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- 1984 - Roy Disney submits his letter of resignation, removing himself from the Disney board of directors.
- 1984 - Roy Disney purchases more shares of Disney, bringing his stake to 4.7%.
- 1984 - Famed corporate raider Saul Steinberg begins purchasing shares of Walt Disney Productions.
- 1985 - The Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade premieres.
- 1986 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, entitled The Richest Cat in the World.
- 1986 - The Disney Channel airs The Wind in the Willows (a British production).
- 1991 - The CBS TV network airs the last show of the series Lenny.
- 1994 - The TV show Thunder Alley premieres.
- 1994 - The ABC TV network debuts the series These Friends of Mine.
- 1994 - Buena Vista Pictures makes a limited release of the film The Ref to theaters.
- 2000 - The fifth ESPN Zone opens, in Washington, D.C.
- 2003 - The Jungle Book Carnival at Disneyland Paris ends.
- 2004 - Disney releases Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo on videocassette and DVD in the USA and Canada.
- 2003 - The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance is held in Florida. All five original Grand Sport Corvettes are displayed, made possible by organizers Bill Tower and Bill Warner.
- 1938 - Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg calls for a public vote for March 13, to decide if the country should remain independent, or join Germany.
- 1941 - Italian forces begin a final offensive against Greek forces, which are able to hold their positions.
- 1942 - Dutch colonial authorities surrender the islands of the Netherlands East Indies. All Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies surrender unconditionally to Japan.
- 1942 - (evening) 187 British bombers attack Essen.
- 1943 - German commander in Africa Erwin Rommel takes sick leave to Europe.
- 1945 - General der Infantrie Herman Niehoff officially replaces von Ahlfen as fortress commander of Breslau, Germany.
- 1945 - Japanese forces attack French positions in Indochina.
- 1945 - 279 American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan, destroying sixteen square miles of the city, killing 83,700, injuring 40,000, making over one million homeless.
- 1996 - Nintendo announces a delay in introducing the Nintendo 64 in Japan to June 23, due to a lack of chips, and delays in software development.
- 2000 - Nintendo agrees to supply protective sports gloves to American owners of the Mario Party video game for the Nintendo 64. The Attorney General's ofice of New York had complained to the company after hearing many reports about children being injured playing the game.
- 2004 - Konami releases the Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2005 - In San Francisco, California, the Game Developers Conference is held, over several days. The International Game Developers Association presents the fifth annual Game Developers Choice Awards.
- 1809 - Lieutenant-Colonel Georg Adlersparre, in the officers' corp of the Western Army, begins a march from Karlstad to Stockholm.
- 1971 - A & W International is granted a registered trademark of an image of an oval double-boomerang with letters "A & W".
- 1895 - Stanley Cup: Montréal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ontario) loses to Montréal AAA, 5-1.
- 1897 - Indian fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official).
- 1904 - Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes first hockey defenseman to score a goal.
- 1916 - Ken Hutchings cricketer (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies.
- 1923 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2.
- 1936 - Babe Ruth turns down Cincinnati Reds to make a comeback as a player.
- 1943 - Oskar Hêks Czechoslovakian marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz.
- 1946 - Ted Williams is offered US$500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses.
- 1947 - Stanley Jackson, cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies.
- 1947 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill.
- 1947 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button.
- 1949 - England beats South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes.
- 1952 - Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title.
- 1958 - George Yardley (Detroit Pistons) is first NBA player to score 2,000 points in season.
- 1964 - Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma.
- 1971 - J M Noreiga takes 9-95 West Indies versus India at Port-of-Spain.
- 1972 - Players on Chicago White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary.
- 1976 - New York Islanders' Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Saint Louis Blues 4-0.
- 1978 - World Ice Dance Championship in Ottawa Canada won by Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov (USSR).
- 1978 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Irina Rodnina and Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR).
- 1978 - World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (German Democratic Republic).
- 1978 - World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA).
- 1979 - Bowie Kuhn orders Major League Baseball to give equal access to female reporters.
- 1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament.
- 1984 - Philadelphia 76ers block 20 Seattle SuperSonics' shots tying NBA regulation game record.
- 1984 - Tim Witherspoon knocks out Greg Page in 12 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open.
- 1989 - Roger Kingdom runs world record 60 metre hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds).
- 1991 - Joe Dumaars (Detroit Michigan) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games.
- 1993 - Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak.
- 1995 - Major League Baseball owners admit two new teams, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The teams will be assigned leagues in January of 1997.
- 1995 - Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at age 63.
- 1996 - Javed Miandad's last international in Pakistan's World Cup quarterfinal loss to India.
- 1996 - Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) versus England in World Cup quarterfinal.
- 1997 - Senior Golf Slam.
- 1997 - Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open.
- 1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation.
- 1959 - First known radar contact is made with Venus.
- 1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit.
- 1986 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.
- 1986 - Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km.
- 1991 - US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit.
- 1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands.
- 2006 - NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
- 2008 - At the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, the Automated Transfer Vehicle is launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket into space. The unmanned European Space Agency cargo freighter is on a mission to resupply the International Space Station.
- 1957 - 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska, USA.
Other history:
- 1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuts.
- 1964 - First Ford Mustang produced.
- 2008 - General elections in Spain, for 350 members of the Cortes, the lower house of parliament: Socialist Party wins 169 seats, with leader Jose Luis Rodriguez. Popular Party wins 153 seats.
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Chronology of World History
What's Notable About this Year?
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