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On March 9, -141: Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.

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Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.

A posthumous name is an honorary name given mainly to revered dead people in East Asian culture. It is predominantly used in Asian countries such as China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Timor-Leste and Thailand. Reflecting on the person's accomplishments or reputation, the title is assigned after death and essentially replaces the name used during life.

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Born on March 9

Sunisa Lee 2003– American artistic gymnast (born 2003)
Usman Garuba 2002– Spanish basketball player (born 2002)
Jeon Somi 2001– South Korean and Canadian singer (born 2001)
Khaby Lame 2000– Senegalese-Italian influencer (born 2000)
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 1999– Finnish ice hockey player (born 1999)
Najee Harris 1998– American football player (born 1998)
Nadeo Argawinata 1997– Indonesian professional footballer
Chika 1997– American rapper (born 1997)
Cierra Ramirez 1995– American actress and singer (born 1995)
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Morgan Rielly 1994– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
George Baldock 1993– English-Greek footballer (1993–2024)
Miikka Salomäki 1993– Finnish ice hockey player
Suga 1993– South Korean rapper (born 1993)
Jooyoung 1991– Musical artist
Daley Blind 1990– Dutch footballer (born 1990)
YG 1990– American rapper (born 1990)
Taeyeon 1989– South Korean singer (born 1989)
Daniel Hudson 1987– American baseball player (born 1987)

People

Died on March 9

Chaim Topol Israeli actor (1935–2023)
James Levine American conductor and pianist (1943–2021)
Roger Mudd American broadcast journalist (1928–2021)
John Bathersby Australian Roman Catholic bishop (1936–2020)
Jo Min-ki South Korean actor (1965–2018)
Howard Hodgkin British painter and printmaker (1932–2017)
Robert Horton American actor (1924–2016)
Clyde Lovellette American basketball player (1929–2016)
James Molyneaux British politician (1920–2015)
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Max Jakobson Finnish diplomat and journalist (1923–2013)
Merton Simpson American painter (1928–2013)
David S. Broder American journalist (1929–2011)
Willie Davis American baseball player (1940–2010)
Doris Haddock American political activist
Wilfy Rebimbus Indian singer and songwriter (1942–2010)
Henry Wittenberg American wrestler
Brad Delp American rock musician (1951–2007)
Glen Harmon Canadian ice hockey player

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  1. -141 Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.

    Honorary name given after death

    A posthumous name is an honorary name given mainly to revered dead people in East Asian culture. It is predominantly used in Asian countries such as China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Timor-Leste and Thailand. Reflecting on the person's accomplishments or reputation, the title is assigned after death and essentially replaces the name used during life.

  2. 1009 First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.

    Country in Northern Europe

    Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a maritime border with Sweden to the west. 9 million.

  3. 1044 The people of Constantinople riot against emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, whose preference of his mistress Maria Skleraina over empress Zoe Porphyrogenita is seen as an insult.

    Capital of the Eastern Roman and Ottoman empires

    Constantinople was a historical city located on a peninsula at the southeastern tip of Thrace in Europe; with the Bosporus strait and the ancient cities of Chalcedon and Chrysopolis in Bithynia, Anatolia to the east; the Golden Horn and the citadel of Galata (Pera) to the north; the Sea of Marmara to the south; and the Princes' Islands to the southeast. Constantinople served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires between its consecration in 330 and the formal abolition of the Ottoman sultanate in 1922.

  4. 1226 Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

    1077–1260 Persianate Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin

    The Anushtegin dynasty or Anushteginids, also known as the Khwarazmian dynasty was a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin from the Bekdili clan of the Oghuz Turks. The Anushteginid dynasty ruled the Khwarazmian Empire, consisting in large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran in the approximate period of 1077 to 1231, first as vassals of the Seljuks and the Qara Khitai, and later as independent rulers, up until the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire in the 13th century.

  5. 1230 Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.

    Country in Southeast Europe

    Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania across the Danube river to the north.

  6. 1500 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.
  7. 1701 Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation.
  8. 1765 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.
  9. 1776 Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations, ushering in the classical period of political economy.
  10. 1796 Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
  11. 1811 Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
  12. 1815 Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
  13. 1841 The 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.
  14. 1842 Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
  15. 1842 The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
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  1. 1847 Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
  2. 1862 American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
  3. 1883 Demonstration of 9 March 1883: Parisian anarchists, unemployed and carpenters narrowly miss the Presidential palace during a violent protest; first use of the black flag as a symbol of anarchism by Louise Michel.
  4. 1908 Inter Milan is founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
  5. 1916 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
  6. 1933 Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
  7. 1942 World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrenders to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese complete their Dutch East Indies campaign.
  8. 1944 World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
  9. 1945 World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
  10. 1945 World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.
  11. 1946 Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
  12. 1954 McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
  13. 1956 Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
  14. 1957 The 8.6 Mw  Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
  15. 1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

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