Monday, 9 March 2020

ON THIS DAY MARCH 9th

1522 - Martin Luther begins preaching his "Invocavit Sermons" in the German city of Wittenberg, reminding citizens to trust God's word rather than violence and thus helping bring to a close the revolutionary stage of the Reformation.

1959 - Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.

1974 - Last Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda , a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.

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