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Saturday, March 9, 1850
Saturday, March 9, 1850 falls on a Saturday. It is day 68 of the year, ISO week 10, in Q1.
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Saturday, March 9
March 9, 1850 is day 68 of 365, ISO week 10, in Q1. The moon is Waning Crescent and the zodiac sign is Pisces.
Day of year68
ISO week10
QuarterQ1
Days left297
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waning Crescent
- Lunar age
- 25.5 days
- Illumination
- 18%
- Season
- Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, summer in the Southern Hemisphere
Zodiac and Holidays
- Zodiac
- Pisces
- Observances
- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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March 9
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Catherine of Bologna
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Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
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Frances of Rome
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Pacian
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Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (Coptic Orthodox Church)
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Gregory of Nyssa (Episcopal Church (United States))
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March 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Teachers' Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)
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Local briefSaturday, March 9, 1850 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 1977: Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to March 9.
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Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.
Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
The popular fashion doll Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
The Andreanof Islands earthquake struck Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, causing more than $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
In Tbilisi, Georgia, soldiers suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization.
Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
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.
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
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Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (born 1935)
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James Levine, American conductor and pianist (born 1943)
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Roger Mudd, American journalist (born 1928)
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John Bathersby, Australian Catholic bishop (born 1936)
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Jo Min-ki, Korean actor (born 1965)
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Howard Hodgkin, British painter (born 1932)
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