March 9, 1822 - Charles Graham receives a patent for false teeth.

March 9, 1841 - The African slaves who took control of the slave ship they were on, the Amistad, are released from custody by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court determined that they had been illegally forced into slavery.

March 9, 1917 - After German U-boats begin to attack ships during WW I, President Woodrow Wilson issues an order that all merchant ships should be armed.
 

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March 9, 1938 - Bob Hope makes his movie debut, in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.

March 9, 1942 - Approximately 20,000 Allied troops are forced to surrender to the Japanese during WWII in Java.

March 9, 1945 - The Shitamachi neighborhood in Tokyo is firebombed by U.S. warplanes. Of the 750,000 people living in the neighborhood, between 80,000 and 130,000 people were killed, and almost 16 square miles burned.

"Sometimes people call me an idealist.  Well, that is the way I know I am an American.  America is the only idealistic nation in the world."- Woodrow Wilson