March 9th

March 9 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 287 days remaining until the end of time.

632 The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of Prophet Muhammad.

1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) and Salt Lake City (punishable by proselytization)

1841 U.S. Supreme Court rules Amistad Negroes are free, not slaves. Djimon relaxes.

1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police is formed.

1882 False teeth are patented

1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape" premieres in New York City

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.

1964 1st Ford Mustang (aka, "Sex on Wheels") is manufactured

2010 The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.  Happy Anniversary, y'all!

2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

1454 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer/cartographer/continent-namer,  the Vespuccias

1902 Will Geer, gay US actor

1910 Samuel Barber, gay US composer (Adagio for Strings)/Gian Carlo Menotti’s squeeze 

1934 Yuri Gagarin, Russian Soviet cosmonaut/first person in space; first to orbit Earth

1959 Kato Kaelin, actor/houseguest  

1959 Rodney A. Grant, Native American US actor

\1968 Will Clark, US porn star/philanthropist 

1970 Shannon Leto, actor/drummer (30 Seconds to Mars)/Jared’s older brother 

1972 Nacho Huett, Venezuelan actor 

1975 Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentinian soccer player 

1977 James Clement, US Survivor contestant/grave digger

1980 Trent Croad, Kiwi Aussie Rules footie 

1931 Ida B Wells-Barnett, civil rights activist, marches on heaven

1955 Matthew A Henson, co-discoverer of North Pole, goes a lot further north

1989 Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, succumbs to AIDS

1996 George Burns, US Comedian/God, says goodnight, Gracie.

1997 Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, US rapper, does not find life after death

2004 Albert Mol, gay Dutch actor (Fanfare), has a horrible and terrible adventure of a nearly normal human being