Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9
On March 9:
- 1862 - Ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw.
- 1916 - Pancho Villa led a raid on Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
- 1932 - Eamon de Valera became Prime Minister of the Irish Free State.
- 1945 - A bomb raid on Tokyo started a firestorm that killed 100,000.
- 1959 - The world's best-selling doll, Barbie, first sold in New York City.