March 9
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March 9 in history:
- 1954: CBS television broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's See It Now report on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy signaled the beginning of the end of McCarthyism.
- 1917: Pancho Villa led Mexican guerrillas in an attack on Columbus, New Mexico, causing Woodrow Wilson to retaliate and send the U.S. Army into Mexico to capture Villa, dead or alive.
- 1912: Juliette Gordon Low organized the first troop of Girl Guides (soon to be renamed Girl Scouts) in America in her home in Savannah, Georgia.
- 1862: The ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimack engaged in a Civil War battle that marked the end of the age of sail-driven, wooden-hulled warships.
