Today
Monday March 9 2026
- Day of the year
- 68/ 365
- Week
- 112,026
- Days left
- 29719%
- Moon
- 66%Waning gibbous
Today is Monday, March 9, 2026. It is day 68 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 297 remain, and 19% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 11.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- March 20International Day of Happiness
- March 21International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- March 21World Poetry Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Catherine of BolognaItalian cloistered nun (1413-1463)
- Forty Martyrs of SebasteRoman soldiers and martyrs
- Bruno of QuerfurtMissionary archbishop and martyr
- Frances of RomeItalian mystic and religious foundress
- Pope Cyril VI of AlexandriaPope of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Saint (1902–1971)
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:17
- Sunset
- 18:56
- Length of day
- 11h 39m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:06
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 11 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Memorial Day — May 25, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waning gibbous
Illumination : 66%
Moon age : 20.2 days
- Next full moon
- April 2, 2026
- Next new moon
- March 19, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Pisces
until March 21, 2026 — Aries
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1500
The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. Wikipedia
1796
Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Wikipedia
1842
Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers. Wikipedia
1862
American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships. Wikipedia
1916
Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. Wikipedia
1942
World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrenders to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese complete their Dutch East Indies campaign. Wikipedia
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1954
McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly. Wikipedia
1956
Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy. Wikipedia
1959
The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Wikipedia
2015
Two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collide in mid-air over Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all 10 people on board both aircraft, including French athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, as well as producers and guests for the French TV show Dropped. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day March 9
- 1454Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer, namesake of the Americas (died 1512)
- 1737Josef Mysliveček, Czech violinist and composer (died 1781)
- 1749Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (died 1791)
- 1890Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1986)
- 1911Clara Rockmore, American classical violin prodigy and theremin player (died 1998)
- 1918George Lincoln Rockwell, American sailor and politician, founded the American Nazi Party (died 1967)
- 1923Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
- 1929Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer, politician and President of Guyana (died 2002)
Died on this day March 9
- 1661Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1602)aged 59 years
- 1825Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, author, and critic (born 1743)aged 82 years
- 1847Mary Anning, English paleontologist (born 1799)aged 48 years
- 1851Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist, discovered electromagnetism and the element aluminium (born 1777)aged 74 years
- 1974Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)aged 59 years
- 1983Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)aged 78 years
- 1988Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (born 1904)aged 84 years
- 2003Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (born 1946)aged 57 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 07:17 and sets at 18:56, giving 11h 39m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 11 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is waning gibbous, 66% illuminated. The next full moon falls on April 2, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 9 to Catherine of Bologna, Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and Bruno of Querfurt.
No United Nations international day falls on March 9. The next one on the calendar is International Day of Happiness, on March 20.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies (1500); Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais (1796). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454; Cardinal Mazarin died on March 9, 1661.
291 days remain until Christmas and 298 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 9 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 19%
- of the year elapsed
- 291
- until Christmas
- 298
- until New Year
- 722
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26