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Historical events & facts — March 9
What happened on March 9?
On March 9, 1945, American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo in Operation Meetinghouse — the largest air raid in history: 16 km² of the city centre burned, more than 100,000 people died and one million were left homeless. The bombing was more devastating than the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in terms of immediate casualties.
On March 9, 1954, CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow broadcast a devastating television report against Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose communism hearings had terrorised Hollywood and Washington for years. The programme marked the beginning of the end of McCarthyism and set the precedent of television journalism as a political counterbalance. McCarthy was censured by the Senate in December of that year.
On March 9, 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte married Joséphine de Beauharnais, a Creole widow of Martinican origin, in Paris. Two days after the wedding, Napoleon left for Italy in command of the Army of Italy, beginning his dazzling military career. The marriage, passionate but tormented, ended in divorce in 1809, when Napoleon needed an heir from the nobility.
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Famous people born on March 9
Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies and one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during his rule. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941, he held office as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1956.
Keely Smith
Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, professionally known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with her then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist.
Joyce Van Patten
Joyce Van Patten is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like The Bad News Bears (1976), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), and as Gloria Noonan in Grown Ups (2010).
Trish Van Devere
Trish Van Devere is a retired American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film One Is a Lonely Number (1972), and won a Genie Award for the film The Changeling (1980). She is the widow of actor George C. Scott, with whom she appeared in multiple films.
Dennis Rader
Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women.
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