Today in History - 9th of March

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What Happened On This Day – 9 March

• 2011 Space Shuttle Discovery completes its final mission

  The shuttle touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after its journey to the International Space Station (ISS).

• 1976 The deadliest cable car accident in history occurs in Italy

  43 people died when the cable car plunged 160 ft (50 meters) to the ground after the steel cable had snapped. 14-year-old Alessandra Piovesana was the only survivor.

• 1961 Ivan Ivanovich, a human dummy, travels into space

  On its test flight on board the Soviet spacecraft Korabl-Sputnik 4 (also known as Sputnik 9), the mannequin was accompanied by a dog, reptiles, mice, and guinea pigs.

• 1959 The Barbie doll goes on sale

  The American toy company Mattel claims that more than one billion Barbie dolls have been sold so far, with about 3 dolls being sold every second.

• 1931 The electron microscope is invented

  German physicist Ernst Ruska is credited with the invention of the microscope. His first instrument allowed a resolution of 50 nanometers (billionths of a meter)

Births On This Day – 9 March

• 1964 Juliette Binoche

  French actress, dancer

• 1943 Bobby Fischer

  American chess player

• 1934 Yuri Gagarin

  Russian pilot, astronaut

• 1915 Johnnie Johnson

  English pilot

• 1890 Vyacheslav Molotov

  Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs fr the Soviet Union

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