TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2019

On this day in history:

1617 - The Treaty of Stolbovo ended the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops.

1734 - The Russians took Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland.

1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais were married. They were divorced in 1809.

1812 - Swedish Pomerania was seized by Napoleon.

1837 - The settlement of Melbourne is named.

1857 - South Australia holds its first elections, but an unusually large number of informal votes are submitted.

1870 - Granny Smith, who gave her name to the Granny Smith apple, dies.

1900 - In Germany, women petition Reichstag for the right to take university entrance exams.

1905 - In Manchuria, Japanese troops surrounded 200,000 Russian troops that were retreating from Mudken.

1905 - In Congo, Belgian Vice Gov. Costermans committed suicide following an investigation of colonial policy.

1909 - The French National Assembly passed an income tax bill.

1936 - The German press warned that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections would be arrested.

1956 - British authorities arrested and deported Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus. He was accused of supporting terrorists.

1959 - Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York.

1989 - In Malaysia, 30 Asian nations conferred on the issue of “boat people”.

2000 - In Norway, the coalition government of Kjell Magne Bondevik resigned as a result of an environmental dispute.

BIRTHDAYS

Amerigo Vespucci 1454 Explorer, navigator, cartographer,

Leland Stanford 1824 Eddie Foy, Sr. 1854

Will Geer 1902

Samuel Barber 1910

Fred Clark 1914

Mickey Spillane 1918

Carl Betz 1920

Andre Courreges 1923

Billy Ford (Billy & Lillie) 1925 Keely Smith 1932