9th March

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1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

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.

1881 The birth, in Winsford, Somerset of Ernest Bevin, one of the founding leaders of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), which soon became Britain's largest trade union. He was Minister of Labour during the Second World War and created ‘Bevin Boys’; young men chosen by ballot to work down the mines as part of their war service.

1891 Four days of storms began off England’s south coast, sinking 14 ships.

1925 The start of Pink's War, an air to ground bombardment carried out by the Royal Air Force, under the command of Wing Commander Richard Charles Montagu Pink, against the tribesmen in north west Pakistan. It was the first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army and Royal Navy.

1937 The Road To Wigan Pier, George Orwell's book depicting life during 'The Depression' in the north of England, was published. Wigan pier was simply a place for loading coal onto canal boats on the Leeds - Liverpool canal.

1950 Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his wife. Three years later John Christie admitted killing her and several other women.

1952 Bill Beaumont, former British Lions and England international rugby captain was born.

1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.

1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.

1997 – 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.

2006 – The first episode of Waterloo Road is aired on BBC One.

2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

2015 – The 200th, and final, episode of Waterloo Road is aired on BBC Three 9 years to the day after episode 1 was aired.

Births
1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian pilot and astronaut (d. 1968)
1938 – Tom Adams, English actor (d. 2014)
1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)
1946 – Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (d. 2014)
1955 – Teo Fabi, Italian race car driver
1958 – Martin Fry, English singer-songwriter (ABC and Vice Versa)
1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress and dancer
1970 – Martin Johnson, English rugby player

Deaths
1992 – Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1993 – Bob Crosby, American singer (b. 1913)
1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
1997 – Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2006 – John Profumo, English politician (b. 1915)

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