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Events on March 9

• 1152 Five days after his election as Roman-German king, the Hohenstaufen Frederick III, until then Duke of Swabia, is crowned in Aachen. As Frederick I, he thereby succeeds his uncle Conrad III, who died three weeks earlier. In return, he hands the duchy over to Conrad's minor son Frederick.
• 1776 Adam Smith's main work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is published in London.
• 1848 During the March Revolution, the Federal Convention of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main adopts black-red-gold as the federal colors as the organ of the princes' representatives. Thus, these colors have the status of a national symbol for the first time.
• 1888 With the death of his father William I, Frederick III becomes Emperor of the German Empire. After 99 days, his reign ends with his death from laryngeal cancer.
• 1959 At the American Toy Fair in New York, the U.S. company Mattel introduces the Barbie doll. The doll is modeled on the comic-strip character Bild-Lilli.
• 1964 In Dearborn, in the U.S. state of Michigan, the first Ford Mustangs roll off the automobile assembly lines.
• 1969 The first Peter Alexander Show is broadcast on ZDF.
• 1972 In the People's Chamber of the GDR, the first and only dissenting votes in the vote on the Law on the Interruption of Pregnancy are cast up to the later Wende. In addition to 14 religiously motivated no votes from the ranks of the East CDU, eight abstentions are counted.
• 1984 Stuttgart's New State Gallery, built to plans by the Scottish architect James Stirling, is opened after four and a half years of construction.
• 1994 The Federal Constitutional Court announces the so-called cannabis ruling, under which a small amount of cannabis is generally exempt from criminal prosecution.
• 2001 In Stuttgart, Claudia Roth is elected federal chair of Alliance 90/The Greens alongside Fritz Kuhn, replacing Renate Künast, who had been given charge of the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture.
• 2004 The president of TSV 1860 Munich, Karl-Heinz Wildmoser, is arrested. He is accused of accepting 2.8 million euros in bribe money in connection with the construction of the Allianz Arena in Munich.

Born on March 9

• 1890 Wjatscheslaw Michailowitsch Molotow, Soviet politician
• 1910 Samuel Barber, American composer
• 1922 Diether Posser, German politician
• 1923 Walter Kohn, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1930 Ornette Coleman, American jazz musician and composer
• 1940 Raúl Juliá, American actor
• 1970 Hilmi Sözer, German-Turkish actor and comedian
• 1980 Volker Bruch, German-Austrian actor
• 1990 Daley Blind, Dutch footballer
• 1990 Nicolas Höfler, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „9. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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