Day in History Archive March 9

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Note: These historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet. As detailed in this article, there is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites do not validate with authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with hyperlinks have been verified. All will eventually be either verified or removed.
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March 9

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1851: Hans Christian Oersted, who discovered electromagnetism and after whom the unit of magnetic field (H) is named, was born. 1856: Edward Acheson, inventor of abrasive carborundum, the 2nd-hardest substance after diamond, was born. 1893: Dewar announced at  the meeting of the Royal Society that he had succeeded in freezing air into a clear, transparent solid. 1932: Ford built its first V-8 vehicle. 1939: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, was born. 1942: Robert Bosch, the German engineer and industrialist who was invented the spark plug and magneto, died. 1959: The first known radar contact was made with Venus. 1961: Sputnik 9 carried Chernushka the dog into orbit. 1964: The first Ford Mustang rolled off of the Ford assembly line.