What Day of the Week

March 9, 2019 was the 68^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 297 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 141 BC

  Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
• 1230

  Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
• 1796

  Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1916

  Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1925

  Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1959

  The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
• 1960

  Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• 1961

  Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
• 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.
• 1991

  Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.

• 1820

  Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
• 1910

  Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
• 1918

  Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
• 1929

  Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
• 1930

  Ornette Coleman, American musician
• 1932

  Keely Smith, American singer
• 1942

  John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground)
• 1958

  Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1966

  Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
• 1981

  Antonio Bryant, American football player

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