March 9, 1900 (Friday)
- In Indianapolis, the Social Democratic Party nominated Eugene V. Debs for President and Job Harriman for Vice President . Debs, in his first run for the presidency, would pick up 0.6% of the popular vote in the 1900 election, and run four more times after that (1904, 1908, 1912 and 1920).
- Born: Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the primary designer of the Harvard Mark I computer; (d. 1973)
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“One of the most interesting and affecting things [on a difficult return march from a raid into Virginia] is the train of contrabands, old and young, male and female—one hundred to two hundred—toiling uncomplainingly along after and with the army.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)