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 Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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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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• 1566

  David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 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.
• 1796

  Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1811

  Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1916

  Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1933

  Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 1945

  The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
• 1991

  Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.

• 1833

  Frederick A. Schroeder, industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn (d. 1899)
• 1909

  Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
• 1935

  Andrew Viterbi, American scientist and businessman
• 1940

  Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
• 1945

  Dennis Rader, American serial killer
• 1949

  Jamie Lyn Bauer, American actress
• 1958

  Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1958

  Martin Fry, English pop singer (ABC)
• 1964

  Steve Wilkos, American police officer and talk show host
• 1977

  Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player

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