Today is Sunday, March ninth, the 68th day of 2025. There are still 297 days a 12 months. Daylight savings period returns on site at 2 a.m.

Today in history:

On March 9, 1945, over 300 US B-29 Bomber's Operation Meetinghouse began through the Second World War, an enormous arson attack against Tokyo. The raid killed an estimated 100,000 civilians, left 1 million homeless and destroyed 16 square kilometers of town.

Also on this date:

In 1796 the longer term emperor of the Frenchman Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais.

In 1862, through the US residents' war, the iron warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimac) collided for five hours for five hours for five hours.

In 1916, greater than 400 Mexican Raiders, led by Pancho Villa Columbus, New Mexico, and killed 18 Americans.

In 1959 the Barbie doll was presented on the American International Toy Fair in New York.

In 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States within the New York Times Co. against Sullivan increased the usual for civil servants to prove that they’d been slandered by news organizations of their official property.

In 1997, rapper The Notorious Big (Christopher Wallace) was killed in a good unresolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles on the age of 24.

In 2022, a Russian air raid devastated a maternity hospital within the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, killed 4 people and wounded no less than 17.

Today's birthdays:

• Singer Jeffrey Osborne is 77.
• Actor Linda Fiorentino is 67.
• Actor Juliette Binoche is 61.
• Actor Emmanuel Lewis is 54.
• Actor Oscar Isaac is 46.
• Comedian Jordan Klepper (television: “The Daily Show”) is 46.
• Rapper Chingy is 45.
• Actor Matthew Gray Gubler is 45.
• Football player Clint Dempsey is 42.
• The gold medalist Julia Mancuso is 41.
• Actor Brittany Snow is 39.
• Rapper Bow WoW is 38.
• Rapper YG is 35.
• Social media personality Khaby Lame is 25.
• Olympia -Gymnastics Gold medalist Sunisa Lee is 22.