March 9, 1975 (Sunday)
- Eritrean War of Independence: The Army of Ethiopia massacred 208 people in the city of Agordat, located in the Eritrea lands in northern Ethiopia.
- The Golden Hinde II arrived in San Francisco Bay, re-enacting the voyage of Sir Sir Francis Drake, which sailed in the bay in 1579. The journey had started on September 24 from Plymouth, England.
- Born: Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer known as "Das Phantom"; in Wijchen
- Died: Warren K. Lewis, 72, American chemistry professor known as "the father of chemical engineering".
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“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”
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