Historical Events for 9th March 2026

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1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan
1849 - Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" premieres
1918 - Russian Bolshevik Party is renamed the All-Russian Communist Party
1954 - WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1984 - Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2011 - Bonham's Auctions in New York City conducts sale of Eric Clapton and friends' guitars and amplifiers to benefit Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility he co-founded in 1997, raising over $1.75M
2021 - Brazil records its highest daily COVID-19 death toll to date of 1,972 deaths with 168,370 deaths overall

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