So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

March 9th


- Baron Bliss Day (Belize)
- Christian Feast Day
- Teacher's Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)

March 9th


- 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
- 1991 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Miloševi? in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are deployed in the streets.
- 1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
- 1989 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.
- 1977 - The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
- 1976 - Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
- 1967 - Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
- 1959 - The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
- 1957 - A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
- 1956 - Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
- 1954 - McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
- 1946 - Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds amongst the injured
- 1944 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
- 1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
- 1925 - Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
- 1916 - Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
- 1910 - The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
- 1896 - Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
- 1856 - National Fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1847 - Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
- 1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
- 1841 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
- 1811 - Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
- 1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
- 1765 - After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
- 1566 - David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1500 - The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
- 1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
- 1230 - Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
- -141 - Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.

March 9th


- 1996 - Darsheel Safary, Indian actor
- 1989 - Christina Broccolini, Canadian TV presenter
- 1989 - Taeyeon, Korean Singer
- 1987 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
- 1986 - Brittany Snow, American actress
- 1985 - Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
- 1985 - Parthiv Patel, Indian Cricket Player
- 1984 - Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
- 1983 - Clint Dempsey, American footballer
- 1983 - Ioannis Masmanidis, Greek-German footballer
- 1983 - Maite Perroni, Mexican singer (RBD)
- 1983 - Wayne Simien, American basketball player
- 1981 - Antonio Bryant, American football player
- 1981 - Anders Nøhr, Danish footballer
- 1981 - Clay Rapada, American baseball player
- 1980 - Chingy, American rapper
- 1980 - Trent Croad, Australian rules footballer
- 1980 - Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
- 1979 - Melina Perez, American WWE Diva
- 1978 - Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
- 1977 - Yamila Diaz, Argentine supermodel
- 1977 - Radek Dvo?ák, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976 - Thor Halvorssen, human rights activist
- 1976 - Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
- 1975 - Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
- 1975 - Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
- 1975 - Didiayer Snyder, Television personality
- 1975 - Chaske Spencer, American actor
- 1973 - Aaron Boone, American baseball player
- 1972 - Spencer Howson, Australian Broadcaster
- 1972 - Jean Louisa Kelly, American Actress
- 1972 - Kerr Smith, American actor
- 1971 - Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
- 1971 - C-Murder, American rapper
- 1971 - Diego Torres, Argentine singer
- 1970 - Martin Johnson, English rugby player
- 1970 - Shannon Leto, American drummer and actor (30 Seconds to Mars)
- 1969 - Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
- 1969 - Stefie Shock, Quebec singer and songwriter
- 1969 - Rob Dukes, American musician {Exodus}
- 1968 - Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
- 1968 - Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
- 1968 - Brian Heidik, American reality-show contestant
- 1966 - Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
- 1966 - Tony Lockett, Australian Rules Footballer
- 1966 - Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
- 1965 - Brian Bosworth, American football player
- 1965 - Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1964 - Steve Wilkos, American police officer and talk show host
- 1964 - Juliette Binoche, French actress
- 1964 - Herbert Fandel, German football referee
- 1964 - Phil Housley, American ice hockey player
- 1963 - Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
- 1963 - David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician
- 1962 - Jan Furtok, Polish footballer
- 1961 - Robert Rechsteiner (Rick Steiner), American wrestler
- 1961 - Darrell Walker, American basketball player
- 1961 - Mike Leach, American football coach
- 1958 - Linda Fiorentino, American actress
- 1958 - Martin Fry, English pop singer (ABC)
- 1958 - Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer
- 1957 - Faith Daniels, American journalist
- 1957 - Mark Mancina, American composer
- 1957 - Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
- 1956 - Mark Dantonio, American football coach
- 1956 - Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General
- 1956 - David Willetts, UK Shadow Secretary for Education (Conservative)
- 1955 - Teo Fabi, Italian racing driver
- 1955 - Ornella Muti, Italian actress
- 1954 - Bobby Sands, IRA member (d. 1981)
- 1952 - Bill Beaumont, English rugby player
- 1951 - Michael Kinsley, American journalist and editor
- 1951 - Helen Zille, South African politician
- 1950 - Doug Ault, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1950 - Danny Sullivan, American race car driver
- 1949 - Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
- 1948 - Emma Bonino, Italian politician
- 1948 - Jeffrey Osborne, American singer
- 1947 - Keri Hulme, New Zealand writer
- 1946 - Jim Cregan, British rock musician
- 1945 - Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
- 1945 - Dennis Rader, American serial killer
- 1945 - Robin Trower, British rock musician
- 1944 - Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
- 1943 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)
- 1943 - Charles Gibson, American television journalist
- 1943 - Colin Murdock, American voice actor
- 1943 - Trish Van Devere, American actress
- 1942 - Mark Lindsay, American musician (Paul Revere & The Raiders)
- 1942 - John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground)
- 1941 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
- 1940 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
- 1938 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
- 1937 - Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
- 1937 - Brian Redman, English racing driver
- 1936 - Mickey Gilley, American musician and singer
- 1936 - Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
- 1935 - Andrew Viterbi, American scientist and businessman
- 1934 - Del Close, American actor, writer and teacher (d. 1999)
- 1934 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space (d. 1968)
- 1934 - Marlene Streit, Canadian golfer
- 1934 - Joyce Van Patten, American actress
- 1933 - Mel Lastman, Canadian politician
- 1933 - Lloyd Price, American singer
- 1932 - Keely Smith, American singer
- 1932 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
- 1931 - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Ornette Coleman, American musician
- 1929 - Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
- 1929 - Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh.
- 1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian artillery designer (d. 1990)
- 1923 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1921 - Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1921 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
- 1920 - Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist (d. 2008)
- 1918 - George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
- 1918 - Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
- 1915 - Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (d. 2001)
- 1910 - Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
- 1909 - Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
- 1905 - Gerardus Philippus Helders, Dutch politician
- 1904 - Paul Klipsch, American engineer (d. 2002)
- 1902 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1900 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
- 1900 - Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1948)
- 1894 - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
- 1892 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (d. 1962)
- 1891 - José P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
- 1890 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (d. 1986)
- 1887 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958)
- 1887 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
- 1856 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
- 1839 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
- 1833 - Frederick A. Schroeder, industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn (d. 1899)
- 1825 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
- 1820 - Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
- 1815 - David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1886)
- 1814 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 1861)
- 1806 - Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
- 1763 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
- 1758 - Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (d. 1828)
- 1753 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
- 1749 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
- 1737 - Josef Myslive?ek, Czech composer (d. 1781)
- 1720 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
- 1695 - Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (d.1772)
- 1629 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
- 1568 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)
- 1564 - David Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1617)
- 1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)
- 1285 - Emperor Go-Nij? of Japan (d. 1318)
- 1213 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271)