On March 9
On March 9, 2 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776).
On this day
On 9 March 1776 Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, the founding text of classical economics.
Between 9 and 15 March 2016 in Seoul, South Korea, AlphaGo, a program developed by the London-based DeepMind, defeated the world-class player Lee Sedol four games to one in the ancient board game Go.
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Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 11 March 1985 and launched two interlinked reform programmes.
The COVID-19 pandemic was the deadliest global disease outbreak in a century, killing an estimated seven million or more people and upending economies, health systems, and daily life worldwide.
On 8 March 1010 CE the poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi completed the Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), the national epic of Greater Iran, after roughly three decades of work begun around 977 CE in his native Tus in the Khorasan region.
On 6 March 1869 (Old Style; 18 March by the Gregorian calendar) a paper by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev on 'The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements' was read to the Russian Chemical Society in St…
Between 12 March and 6 April 1930, Mohandas K. Gandhi led a 24-day, roughly 385-kilometre march from his Sabarmati Ashram to the coastal village of Dandi in Gujarat to defy the British salt monopoly and tax.
On 6 March 1957 the Gold Coast became the independent state of Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African colony to win majority-rule independence from a European power.
On 11 March 2018 China's National People's Congress voted overwhelmingly, 2,958 in favour with only two opposed, to amend the constitution and remove the two-term limit on the presidency, clearing the way for Xi Jinping to remain in office…