Read today’s Calendar bites for the agenda of this day’s family history events and historical celebrations.
Review our Calendar, Call for Papers, Contests, or other pages to see what other events are coming up.
March 9
Birthdays
- Barbie, 1959. More than 800 million Barbie dolls have been sold since her debut on this day.
- Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin, 1934. Russian cosmonaut, the first person to travel in space, in 1961.
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, 1890. Not a bartender, but the Soviet People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs who claimed that Russian forces were dropping food and not incendiary bombs on Finnish forces during the Winter War, which led the Finns to christen their improvised gasoline bombs “Molotov cocktails.”
- Amerigo Vespucci, 1454. Italian navigator, merchant and explorer for whom the Americas were named.
Celebrations
Discover What Your Name Means Day
Panic Day. Just run around all day in a panic. Like every other day.
Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Day
Today’s events
See the Location pages for more information on these events:
FL – Finding Female Ancestors. Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library, 1505 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, FL
IN – ACPL “14 Steps for re-thinking and solving genealogical problems”. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Discovery Center
NY – National Archives New York City. National Archives at New York City, 3rd floor Learning Center, One Bowling Green, NY, NY
UK – NIFHS A Beginner’s Guide To Facebook. Honneyman Room, NIFHS Research Centre, Unit C4, Valley Business Centre, 67 Church Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36 7LS.
UK – NIFHS Writing Up Your Family History. Honneyman Room, NIFHS Research Centre, Unit C4, Valley Business Centre, 67 Church Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36 7LS.
