Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9
March 9: Baron Bliss Day in Belize
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- 1841 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had been taken into slavery illegally.
- 1862 - Ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
- 1932 - Eamon de Valera (pictured) of Fianna Fáil became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, succeeding W.T. Cosgrave of Cumann na nGaedhael.
- 1945 - A bomb raid on Tokyo started a firestorm, killing 100,000.
- 1959 - Barbie, the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
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