What happend on 9th March

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1933

Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.

1924

Italy annexes Fiume.

1916

Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.

1908

Inter Milan was founded

1862

American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships

1847

Mexican-American War: United States forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.

1842

Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

1841

The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.

1796

Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

1765

After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.