370 Historic Events for March 9
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| 1841 |
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US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
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| 1842 |
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan
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| 1844 |
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice
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| 1848 |
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Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer
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| 1849 |
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Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres
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| 1850 |
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Alexandre Luigini, composer
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| 1858 |
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Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
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| 1859 |
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Richard Engl„nder, [Peter Altenberg], Austria, author (Lebensabend)
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| 1860 |
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1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington
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| 1861 |
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Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
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| 1862 |
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"Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
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| 1864 |
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Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
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| 1865 |
Birth |
Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
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| 1868 |
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The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
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| 1870 |
Death |
Theodore Labarre, composer, dies at 65
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| 1873 |
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
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| 1874 |
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Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer
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| 1875 |
Birth |
Martin Fallas Shaw, composer
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| 1877 |
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Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
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| 1877 |
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Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58
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| 1881 |
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Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
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| 1881 |
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Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician
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| 1882 |
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False teeth patented
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| 1883 |
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Umberto Saba, writer
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| 1885 |
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Ringgold "Ring" Lardner, baseball player
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