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− | '''March 9''' | + | '''March 9''' in history: |
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| + | * 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. |
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| + | * 1917: Pancho Villa led Mexican guerrillas in an attack on Columbus, [[Directory:New Mexico|New Mexico]], causing Woodrow Wilson to retaliate and send the U.S. Army into [[Directory:Mexico|Mexico]] to capture Villa, dead or alive. |
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| + | * 1912: Juliette Gordon Low organized the first troop of Girl Guides (soon to be renamed Girl Scouts) in America in her home in Savannah, [[Directory:Georgia|Georgia]]. |
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| + | * 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. |
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| + | [[Category:March]] [[Category:Days of the Year]] |