Skip to content

Home arrow Trivia Resources arrow On this day in history

On this day in History Archives
 
At PaulsQuiz.com we aim to provide you with as much information as we possibly can. That's why we have built our On This Day in History section, to do just that. Our database is forever growing, we're adding more and more events from history to help you write your quiz questions.

Simply enter a date using the drop-down boxes below and click the 'Go' button to display events from the past that ocurred on that day.
 

 
09 March, 2007
The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the FBI had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.
09 March, 2006
Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
09 March, 1993
Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating Kings civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
09 March, 1991
Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Miloševic in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
09 March, 1990
Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
09 March, 1990
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundlands approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.
09 March, 1989
A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.
09 March, 1986
United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.
09 March, 1984
The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
09 March, 1977
The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, DC, killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.
09 March, 1976
Forty-two people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
09 March, 1975
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
09 March, 1967
Josef Stalins daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
09 March, 1959
The Barbie doll debuts.
09 March, 1957
The magnitude 8.6 1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake and tsunami occurs.
09 March, 1954
McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
09 March, 1945
World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.
09 March, 1935
Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
09 March, 1933
Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
09 March, 1932
The Egyptian University rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigns in protest of the transfer of Dr.Taha Hussein without the Universitys permission. In 2003, an academic group called "March 9" is established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence.
09 March, 1932
The first Ford Flathead engine leaves the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
09 March, 1925
Pinks War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins.
09 March, 1924
Italy annexes Fiume.
09 March, 1916
Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
09 March, 1910
The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
09 March, 1908
Inter Milan is founded.
09 March, 1896
Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
09 March, 1862
American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships, a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, results in a draw.
09 March, 1856
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
09 March, 1847
Mexican-American War: United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.
09 March, 1842
Giuseppe Verdis third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italys foremost opera writers.
09 March, 1841
The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.
09 March, 1834
French Foreign Legion is founded.
09 March, 1796
Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
09 March, 1776
Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
09 March, 1765
After a public 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 had actually committed suicide.
09 March, 1566
David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
09 March, 1500
The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover the sea route to Brazil, already Portuguese since the treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
09 March, 1276
Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
09 March, 1230
Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
09 March, 590
Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia.

Choose another day in history

January

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

February

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29

March

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

April

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30

May

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

June

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30

July

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

August

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

September

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30

October

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

November

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30

December

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

PaulsQuiz.com Exclusive: Free Questions in Your Inbox

Join the PaulsQuiz.com Facebook Group
Copyright © 2008 - Paul Abrook and Dave Small
RSS Feed RSS Feed | Free Quiz Questions | Pub Quiz Questions - at our Sister site