Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9

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 * 1009 – The first recorded use of the name of Lithuania appeared in Latin in the Annals of Quedlinburg, written in Saxony-Anhalt, present-day Germany.
 * 1842 – Awaking from a nap under a tree at Rancho San Francisco, Francisco López made the first popularly documented discovery of gold in California.
 * 1842 – Nabucco, an opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi that established his reputation, premiered at La Scala in Milan.
 * 1847 – Mexican–American War: The Siege of Veracruz began, the first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States military forces.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: In the world's first battle between two ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
 * 1910 – A seventeen-month-long strike, which at its peak involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
 * 1932 – Éamon de Valera (pictured), a dominant political figure in 20th-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
 * 1933 – U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
 * 1944 – World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air Forces heavily bombed Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
 * 1946 – Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
 * 1959 – The popular fashion doll Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
 * 1967 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
 * 1977 – Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.
 * Born/died this day: | Mary Anning  |d|1847| Eddie Foy Sr. |b|1856| Mary Harris Armor |b|1863| Herbert Maryon |b|1874| Jane Joseph |d|1929| Qayyum Chowdhury |b|1932| Yuri Gagarin |b|1934|  Takaaki Kajita |b|1959| The Notorious B.I.G. |d|1997| George Singh |d|1999