Editing March 9 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[141 BC]] &ndash; Liu Che, [[Posthumous name|posthumously]] known as [[Emperor Wu of Han]], assumes the throne over the [[Han dynasty]] of China.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wudi {{!}} emperor of Han dynasty |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wudi-emperor-of-Han-dynasty |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=23 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=28 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228145216/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wudi-emperor-of-Han-dynasty |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1009]] &ndash; First known mention of [[Lithuania]], in the [[Annals of Quedlinburg|annals]] of the monastery of [[Quedlinburg]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Janonienė |first1=Rūta |last2=Račiūnaitė |first2=Tojana |last3=Iršėnas |first3=Marius |last4=Butrimas |first4=Adomas |title=The Lithuanian Millennium: History, Art and Culture |date=2015 |publisher=VDA leidykla |isbn=978-609-447-097-4 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L9X3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309143023/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9X3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1226]] &ndash; [[Khwarazmian dynasty|Khwarazmian]] [[sultan]] [[Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu|Jalal ad-Din]] conquers the [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgian]] capital of [[Tbilisi]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=D. S. |title=The chronicle of Ibn al-Athīr for the crusading period from al-Kāmil fīʼl-taʼrīkh |date=2010 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |isbn=9780754669524 |page=269 |quote=On 8 Rabīʼ I of this year [9 March 1226] Jalāl al-Dīn, son of Khwārazm Shāh, conquered the city of Tiflis from the Georgians.}}</ref>
*[[1230]] &ndash; [[Bulgaria]]n [[Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria|Tsar Ivan Asen II]] defeats [[Despotate of Epirus|Theodore of Epirus]] in the [[Battle of Klokotnitsa]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herrin |first1=Judith |last2=Saint-Guillain |first2=Guillaume |title=Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204 |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-11913-5 |page=132 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNQYDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA132 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309143027/https://books.google.com/books?id=tNQYDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA132 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1500]] &ndash; 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]] in 1494.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pedro Alvares Cabral {{!}} Biography, Voyage, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pedro-Alvares-Cabral |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413172723/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pedro-Alvares-Cabral |url-status=live }}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1701]] &ndash; [[Safavid Iran|Safavid]] troops retreat from [[Basra]], [[Safavid occupation of Basra (1697–1701)|ending a three-year occupation]].{{sfn|Matthee|2006b}}
*[[1765]] &ndash; 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 died by suicide.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Armstrong |first1=Ken |title=Broken on the Wheel |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/13/broken-on-the-wheel/ |website=The Paris Review |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |date=13 March 2015 |archive-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123042017/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/13/broken-on-the-wheel/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; Scottish philosopher [[Adam Smith]] publishes ''[[The Wealth of Nations]]'', ushering in the [[classical economics|classical period]] of [[political economy]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Goff |first1=Frederick R. |title=Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" |journal=Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions |pages=11–13 |date=1947|volume=4 |issue=2 |jstor=29780456 }}</ref>
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Napoleon|Napoléon Bonaparte]] marries his first wife, [[Joséphine de Beauharnais]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Eugène de Beauharnais {{!}} French soldier and viceroy |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugene-de-Beauharnais |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=12 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112094055/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugene-de-Beauharnais |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1811]] &ndash; Paraguayan forces defeat [[Manuel Belgrano]] at the [[Battle of Tacuarí]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clodfelter |first1=Micheal |title=Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. |date=2017 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-7470-7 |page=313 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8urEDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA313 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207063518/https://books.google.com/books?id=8urEDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA313 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Francis Ronalds]] describes the first battery-operated clock in the ''[[Philosophical Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Philosophical Magazine |date=1815 |publisher=Taylor & Francis. |pages=261–264 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhpRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA264 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309143028/https://books.google.com/books?id=GhpRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA264 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1841]] &ndash; The [[Supreme Court of the United States|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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gold |first1=Susan Dudley |title=United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny |date=2006 |publisher=Marshall Cavendish |isbn=978-0-7614-2143-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesvami0000gold/page/105 105] |url=https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesvami0000gold |url-access=registration |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s third opera, ''[[Nabucco]]'', receives its première performance in [[Milan]]; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bagnoli |first1=Giorgio |title=The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera |date=1993 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-671-87042-3 |page=265 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUJ0bvo6rQIC&pg=PA265 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204032805/https://books.google.com/books?id=FUJ0bvo6rQIC&pg=PA265 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1842   &ndash; The first documented discovery of [[gold]] in [[California]] occurs at [[Rancho San Francisco]], six years before the [[California Gold Rush]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Project |first1=Federal Writers' |title=California in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the Golden State |date=2013 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-27540-9 |page=395 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3wZ92r0X1xkC&pg=PA395 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309143025/https://books.google.com/books?id=3wZ92r0X1xkC&pg=PA395 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=California Gold Rush {{!}} Definition & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/California-Gold-Rush |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=2 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102194750/https://www.britannica.com/topic/California-Gold-Rush |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Mexican–American War]]: The first large-scale [[amphibious assault]] in U.S. history is launched in the [[Siege of Veracruz]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer |last2=Arnold |first2=James R. |last3=Wiener |first3=Roberta |last4=Pierpaoli (Jr.) |first4=Paul G. |last5=Cutrer |first5=Thomas W. |last6=Santoni |first6=Pedro |title=The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War: A Political, Social, and Military History |date=2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-853-8 |page=704 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZVQcZpic-8C&pg=PA704 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309143026/https://books.google.com/books?id=FZVQcZpic-8C&pg=PA704 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: {{USS|Monitor}} and {{Ship|CSS|Virginia}} (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the [[USS Merrimack (1855)|USS ''Merrimack'']]) fight to a draw in the [[Battle of Hampton Roads]], the first battle between two [[ironclad warship]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack {{!}} Summary & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=15 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415095152/https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack |url-status=live }}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[Inter Milan]] was founded on ''Football Club Internazionale'', following a schism from [[A.C. Milan]].<ref>{{cite web |title=FC Internazionale Milano football club history |url=https://www.footballhistory.org/club/internazionale.html |website=www.footballhistory.org |access-date=24 January 2020 |archive-date=8 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200208225609/https://www.footballhistory.org/club/internazionale.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Pancho Villa]] leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in [[Battle of Columbus (1916)|an attack]] against the border town of [[Columbus, New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Battle of Columbus {{!}} Summary |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Columbus-1916 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=23 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623063826/https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Columbus-1916 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Great Depression]]: President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] submits the [[Emergency Banking Act]] to Congress, the first of his [[New Deal]] policies.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Law That Started the New Deal |url=https://time.com/4249815/emergency-banking-relief-act/ |magazine=Time |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=28 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828161005/https://time.com/4249815/emergency-banking-relief-act/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Dutch East Indies]] unconditionally surrendered to the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] forces in Kalijati, [[Subang Regency|Subang]], [[West Java]], and the Japanese completed their [[Dutch East Indies campaign]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer |title=World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia |date=2012 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-457-3 |page=404 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0nrSWUHx6sC&pg=PA404 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309143033/https://books.google.com/books?id=N0nrSWUHx6sC&pg=PA404 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: [[Bombing of Tallinn in World War II|Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weiss-Wendt |first1=Anton |title=On the Margins: About the History of Jews in Estonia |date=2017 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-963-386-165-3 |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj3HDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204032804/https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj3HDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: [[Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina|A coup d'état]] by Japanese forces in [[French Indochina]] removes the French from power.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Ralph B. |title=The Japanese Period in Indochina and the Coup of 9 March 1945 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/japanese-period-in-indochina-and-the-coup-of-9-march-1945/275B1ABEED60A9B95F85297F68603286 |journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |access-date=24 January 2020 |pages=268–301 |language=en |doi=10.1017/S0022463400009784 |date=1978 |volume=9 |issue=2 |s2cid=162631136 |archive-date=9 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109144952/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/japanese-period-in-indochina-and-the-coup-of-9-march-1945/275B1ABEED60A9B95F85297F68603286 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: [[Allied forces (World War II)|Allied forces]] carry out [[Bombing of Tokyo|firebombing over Tokyo]], destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.<ref name="burning_2011_03_wired_com">{{cite magazine |last=Long |first=Tony |date=9 March 2011 |title=March 9, 1945: Burning the Heart Out of the Enemy |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/03/0309incendiary-bombs-kill-100000-tokyo/ |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |quote=1945: In the single deadliest air raid of World War II, 330 American B-29s rain incendiary bombs on Tokyo, touching off a firestorm that kills upwards of 100,000 people, burns a quarter of the city to the ground, and leaves a million homeless. |access-date=9 March 2022 |archive-date=23 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323180239/https://www.wired.com/2011/03/0309incendiary-bombs-kill-100000-tokyo/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Bolton Wanderers F.C.|Bolton Wanderers]] [[Burnden Park disaster|stadium disaster]] at [[Burnden Park]], [[Bolton]], England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.<ref>{{cite web |title=Football ground disaster marked |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12686632 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 January 2020 |date=9 March 2011 |archive-date=31 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182749/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12686632 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[McCarthyism]]: [[CBS]] television broadcasts the ''[[See It Now]]'' episode, "A Report on Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]]", produced by [[Fred Friendly]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wershba |first1=Joseph |title=MURROW vs.McCARTHY: SEE IT NOW |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/04/archives/murrow-vs-mccarthy-see-it-now.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=24 January 2020 |date=4 March 1979 |archive-date=25 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825183907/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/04/archives/murrow-vs-mccarthy-see-it-now.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Red Army|Soviet forces]] suppress [[1956 Georgian demonstrations|mass demonstrations]] in the [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgian SSR]], reacting to [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s [[de-Stalinization]] policy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blauvelt |first1=Timothy |title=Status Shift and Ethnic Mobilisation in the March 1956 Events in Georgia |journal=Europe-Asia Studies |pages=651–668 |date=2009|volume=61 |issue=4 |doi=10.1080/09668130902826246 |jstor=27752275 |s2cid=143643970 }}</ref>
*[[1957]] &ndash; The 8.6 {{M|w}} [[1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake|Andreanof Islands earthquake]] shakes the [[Aleutian Islands]], causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tsunami Historical Series: Aleutian Islands - 1957 Dataset {{!}} Science On a Sphere |url=https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/tsunami-historical-series-aleutian-islands-1957/ |website=sos.noaa.gov |date=28 March 2017 |access-date=24 January 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803163355/https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/tsunami-historical-series-aleutian-islands-1957/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1959]] &ndash; The [[Barbie]] doll makes its debut at the [[American International Toy Fair]] in New York.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Barbie Doll's Not-for-Kids Origins |url=https://time.com/3731483/barbie-history/ |magazine=Time |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218215951/https://time.com/3731483/barbie-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1960]] &ndash; Dr. [[Belding Hibbard Scribner]] implants for the first time a [[shunt (medical)|shunt]] he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive [[hemodialysis]] on a regular basis.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blagg |first1=Christopher R. |title=The 50th anniversary of long-term hemodialysis: University of Washington Hospital, March 9th, 1960 |journal=Journal of Nephrology |pages=S84–88 |issue=Suppl. 17| doi=10.5301/JN.2011.6476 |date=May 2011|volume=24 |doi-broken-date=8 March 2025 |pmid=21614785 }}</ref>
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Sputnik 9]] successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the [[Soviet Union]] was ready to begin [[human spaceflight]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Angelo |first1=Joseph A. |title=Human Spaceflight |date=2014 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-0891-9 |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGumSybNfFQC&pg=PA77 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206212525/https://books.google.com/books?id=OGumSybNfFQC&pg=PA77 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Trans World Airlines]] [[TWA Flight 553|Flight 553]] crashes in a field in [[Concord Township, Champaign County, Ohio|Concord Township, Ohio]], following a [[mid-air collision]] with a [[Beechcraft Baron]], killing 26 people.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sanctis |first1=Matt |title=Deadly Champaign County plane crash changed families, safety rules |url=https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/transportation/deadly-champaign-county-plane-crash-changed-families-safety-rules/r0Nv6H0vcaey7bI23jp1vI/ |website=springfieldnewssun |access-date=24 January 2020 |language=en |archive-date=26 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226104927/https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/transportation/deadly-champaign-county-plane-crash-changed-families-safety-rules/r0Nv6H0vcaey7bI23jp1vI/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; The [[Mars 7]] Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harland |first1=David M. |title=The Earth in Context: A Guide to the Solar System |date=2001 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-85233-375-1 |page=415 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KE3mp3r1bEcC&pg=PA415 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309143025/https://books.google.com/books?id=KE3mp3r1bEcC&pg=PA415 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1976]] &ndash; Forty-two people die in the [[1976 Cavalese cable car crash|Cavalese cable car disaster]], the deadliest cable car accident in history.<ref>{{cite web |title=1976: Scores die in cable car tragedy |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/newsid_4213000/4213355.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=24 January 2020 |date=9 March 1976 |archive-date=26 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126062906/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/newsid_4213000/4213355.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1977]] &ndash; The [[1977 Hanafi Siege|Hanafi Siege]]: In a 39-hour standoff, armed [[Hanafi]] Muslims seize three [[Washington, D.C.]], buildings.<ref>{{cite news |title=B'nai B'rith Hostages Pinpoint Times of Hanafi Siege Events |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/06/16/bnai-brith-hostages-pinpoint-times-of-hanafi-siege-events/995a0376-9ec8-437e-8893-74286e3382e4/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818121121/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/06/16/bnai-brith-hostages-pinpoint-times-of-hanafi-siege-events/995a0376-9ec8-437e-8893-74286e3382e4/ |archive-date=18 August 2020 |access-date=24 January 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
*[[1978]] &ndash; President [[Suharto|Soeharto]] inaugurated [[Jagorawi Toll Road]], the first [[toll highway]] in [[Indonesia]], connecting [[Jakarta]], [[Bogor]] and Ciawi, [[West Java]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davidson |first1=Jamie S. |title=Indonesia's Changing Political Economy |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-08688-3 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2i8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA52 |language=en |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309143033/https://books.google.com/books?id=x2i8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA52 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Chrysler]] announces its acquisition of [[American Motors Corporation]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Philips, David |date=2021-03-09 |title=On March 9, 1987, Chrysler agrees to buy Jeep brand |url=https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts-history/chrysler-acquires-jeep-brand-1987-deal-amc |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309184904/https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts-history/chrysler-acquires-jeep-brand-1987-deal-amc |archive-date=2021-03-09 |access-date=2021-03-10 |publisher=[[Automotive News]]}}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Comet Hale-Bopp and the Total Solar Eclipse of 1997 |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpubs/19970309/cometHB.html |website=eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov |access-date=24 January 2020 |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021113946/https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpubs/19970309/cometHB.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  [[2000]] &ndash; [[Nupedia]], a multi-language [[online encyclopedia]], is launched.<ref name="hive">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/09/the-hive/305118/?single_page=true|title=Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history's biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge|magazine=The Hive|last=Poe|first=Marshall|publisher=[[The Atlantic]]|date=September 2006|access-date=1 January 2007|archive-date=26 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026045223/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/09/the-hive/305118/?single_page=true|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  [[2011]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] makes its final landing after 39 flights.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Siceloff |first1=Steven |title=Discovery Makes Last Mission a Flight to Remember |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/launch/sts133overview.html |website=NASA |access-date=23 January 2020 |date=10 March 2015 |archive-date=13 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513111740/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/launch/sts133overview.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; A [[2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce|truce]] between the Salvadoran government and gangs in the country goes into effect when 30 gang leaders are transferred to lower security prisons.<ref name="EF">{{cite web|url=https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/is-el-salvador-negotiating-with-street-gangs/|title=Is El Salvador Negotiating with Street Gangs?|first1=Geoffrey|last1=Ramsey|date=15 March 2012|access-date=24 February 2023|work=[[InSight Crime]]|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006195051/https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/is-el-salvador-negotiating-with-street-gangs/|archive-date=6 October 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2015]] &ndash; Two [[Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil]] helicopters [[2015 Villa Castelli mid-air collision|collide]] in mid-air over [[Villa Castelli, Argentina]], killing all 10 people on board both aircraft, including French athletes [[Florence Arthaud]], [[Camille Muffat]] and [[Alexis Vastine]], as well as producers and guests for the French TV show ''[[Dropped (TV series)|Dropped]]''.<ref name="France24">{{cite news |date=3 October 2015 |title=Bodies of French sports stars recovered from Argentina crash site |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20150310-bodies-french-athletes-argentina-crash |access-date=30 December 2020 |agency=France24}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Conte]], [[Prime Minister of Italy]], announces in a televised address and signs the decree imposing the [[COVID-19 lockdowns in Italy|first nationwide]] [[COVID-19 lockdowns|COVID-19 lockdown]] in the world.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-03-09 |title=Coronavirus: Italy extends emergency measures nationwide |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51810673 |access-date=2024-05-04 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; A [[2023 Hamburg shooting|shooting]] in the [[Alsterdorf]] quarter of [[Hamburg]], Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight.<ref name="Guardian_2023-03-10">{{cite news |author=Boffey |first=Daniel |date=2023-03-10 |title=Hamburg police were tipped off about gunman, but did not take his weapon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/10/hamburg-shooting-police-jehovahs-witness-germany |access-date=2023-03-10 |work=[[The Guardian]] |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>