The Daguerrotype photo process was announced at the French Academy of Science. The rebel slaves who seized a Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, two years earlier were freed by the Supreme Court despite Spanish demands for extradition. The mailbox was patented. Mar 9, President Abraham Lincoln officially commissioned Ulysses S. Grant the first lieutenant general in the U.S. Army since George Washington. After leading Union victories in the West in 1862-63, Lincoln gave Grant supreme command of the Union forces with the revived rank of lieutenant general.
Summer makes a silence after spring.
1905 Mar 9, Peter Quennell, biographer, was born. Mar 9, Archeologists unearthed the royal tombs of Yua and Tua in Egypt. 1910 Mar 9, Samuel Barber, American composer, was born. The funding for five new battleships was added to the British military defense budget. 1915 Mar 9, The Germans took Grodno on the Eastern Front.