March 9 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 9
In the headlines today:

2007	Brad Delp, lead singer of the rock band Boston, dies at his southern New Hampshire home at age 55.
1999	RJR Nabisco announces that it will stop manufacturing cigarettes.
1997	Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), dies after a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles at age 24.
1996	Actor-comedian George Burns dies in Beverly Hills,, California, at age 100.
1990	Dr. Antonia Novello becomes the first woman US surgeon general.
1985	The blockbuster movie Gone With The Wind is available on home video for the first time -- at the bargain price of just $90. (Today it sells for roughly a fourth of that.)
1975	Construction work begins on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
1967	The Beatles record several rhythm tracks for Getting Better, a song that will ultimately appear on their Sergeant Pepper album, at EMI Studios in London. (photo credit: Capitol Records)
1945	US bombers begin dropping incendiary bombs on Japan, during WWII.
1916	Pancho Villa, leading a band of Mexican raiders, kills more than a dozen people in Columbus, New Mexico.
1862	The ironclad vessels Monitor and Merrimac wage their famous Civil War naval battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The skirmish ended in a draw.
1832	Abraham Lincoln announces his intent to run for the Illinois state legislature.
1796	Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais.