What happend on 9th March

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1986

United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.

1977

Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.

1976

42 people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.

1975

Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

1967

Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

1964

The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.

1959

The Barbie doll debuts.

1957

Aleutian Islands register a 9.1 magnitude earthquake

1954

McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.

1945

World War II: Bombing of Tokyo