History for March 9

History for March 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Amerigo Vespucci 1454, Mickey Spillane 1918 - Author, Yuri Gagarin 1934 


Mark Lindsay 1942 - Singer (Paul Revere & the Raiders), Bobby Fischer 1943 - Chess player, Linda Fiorentino 1960 - Actress 


1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais were married. They were divorced in 1809. 


1822 - Charles M. Graham received the first patent for artificial teeth. 


1832 - Abraham Lincoln announced that he would run for a political office for the first time. He was unsuccessful in his run for a seat in the Illinois state legislature. 


1862 - During the U.S. Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia fought to a draw in a five-hour battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia. 


1897 - A patent was issued to William Spinks and William Hoskins for cue chalk. 


1959 - Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York. 


1964 - Production began on the first Ford Mustang. 


1975 - Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline. 


1977 - About a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington, DC. They killed one person and took more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later. 


1983 - The official Soviet news agency TASS says that U.S. President Reagan is full of "bellicose lunatic anti-communism."