This day in History - March 9

370 Historic Events for March 9
1907 Event 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 Event Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
1907 Birth Henry Leland Clarke, composer
1908 Birth Luiz Cosme, composer
1910 Birth Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
1910 Birth Samuel Barber, West Chester Pa, composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal)
1911 Birth Ramon Campbell Batista, composer
1912 Birth Alan David Melville, polymath
1913 Birth Ger[ar]da Brautigam, journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (PvdA)
1913 Death Eberhard Nestle, German biblical scholar, dies at 61
1914 Birth Fred Clark, Lincoln Calif, actor (Burns and Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard)
1914 Event US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1914 Event Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1915 Birth Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns)
1916 Death Ken Hutchings, cricketer (exciting England batsman, WW I), dies
1916 Event Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12
1916 Event Germany declares war against Portugal
1916 Event General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades US (17 killed)
1917 Birth Dante B Fascell, (Rep-D-FL, 1955- )
1918 Death [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53
1918 Event Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 Event Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1918 Event Wageningen Agricultural College Neth opens
1918 Birth Marguerite Chapman, Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars)
1918 Birth Mickey Spillane, [Frank], Brooklyn NY, mystery writer (I the Jury)