March 9

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[edit] Events

1. 1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
2. 1834 - French Foreign Legion is founded.
3. 1916 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
4. 1935 - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
5. 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.
6. 1967 - Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

[edit] Births

1. 1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer
2. 1918 - George Lincoln Rockwell, founder and leader of the American Nazi Party
3. 1954 - Bobby Sands, IRA member.

[edit] Deaths

1. 1202 - King Sverre of Norway
2. 1888 - William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
3. 1964 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)