What Day of the Week

March 9, 2021 is the 68^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kayōbi.

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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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• 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 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
• 1842

  The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
• 1862

  American Civil War: The USS Monitor and Ship CSS fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• 1944

  World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
• 1957

  A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1989

  Financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.

• 1568

  Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)
• 1921

  Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1932

  Keely Smith, American singer
• 1934

  Joyce Van Patten, American actress
• 1945

  Robin Trower, British rock musician
• 1956

  David Willetts, UK Minister of State for Universities and Science (Conservative)
• 1966

  Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
• 1981

  Anders Nøhr, Danish footballer
• 1983

  Ioannis Masmanidis, German footballer
• 1987

  Bow Wow, American rapper and actor

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