March 9

Italian soccer club Inter Milan founded (1908); Barbie doll debuts at American International Toy Fair (1959); Comedian George Burns dies (1996); Space Shuttle Discovery makes final of 39 landings (2011); US Olympic gold-winning gymnast Sunisa Lee born (2003)

March 8

First stock car race held in Daytona Beach (1936); International Women's Day becomes official United Nations holiday (1977); Baseball player Joe DiMaggio dies (1999); Sam Simon, director and codeveloper of "The Simpsons," dies (2015).

March 5

Five American colonists shot by British troops in Boston Massacre (1770); Josef Stalin dies (1953); Singer Patsy Cline dies (1963); Actress Eva Mendes born (1974); Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dies (2013).

March 4

Antonio Vivaldi, violinist and composer, born (1678); Jeannette Rankin becomes first female member of US House of Representatives (1917); Frances Perkins becomes secretary of labor, first female member of US Cabinet (1933); Actor and comedian John Candy dies (1994); Actor Luke Perry dies (2019).

March 3

Inventor Alexander Graham Bell born (1847); "The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes the US national anthem (1931); Track and field great Jackie Joyner-Kersee born (1962); Turkish Airlines flight crashes outside Paris, killing all 346 aboard (1974)

March 6

Michelangelo born (1475); Davy Crockett and around 200 others are killed at the Battle of the Alamo (1836); Aspirin is patented (1899); Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez born (1927); Ghana becomes first sub-Saharan colony to achieve independence from British rule (1957); Shaquille O’Neal born (1972); Artist Georgia O’Keeffe dies (1986).

March 7

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (1876); Actor Bryan Cranston born (1956); Roughly 600 Civil Rights activists attacked by police while marching from Selma to Montgomery, an event known as Bloody Sunday (1965); American poet Amanda Gorman born (1998); Director Stanley Kubrick dies (1999).