WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016
Today is Wednesday, March 9, the 69th day of 2016. There are 297 days left in the year.
1697 — Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
1701 — France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1796 — Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
1820 — James Monroe’s daughter Maria marries in the White House
1842 — Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Nabucco” premieres in Milan
1858 — Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1860 — First Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco
1864 — Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1889 — Kansas passes first general antitrust law in U.S.