This Day in History

March 9th in History

Monitor vs. Merrimac! Plus, Muhammad preaches his farewell sermon, Pancho Villa attacks New Mexico, Barbie® debuts, and the most destructive bombing raid in history kills over 100,000 people in Tokyo. Happy birthday to Bobby Fisher, Yuri Gagarin, Mickey Spillane, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Amerigo Vespucci. RIP George Burns, Menachem Begin, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Happy Eid Al Moalim!

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Quote of the Day

"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes."

Mickey Spillane, crime novelist born March 9, 1918