Today In History: What Happened On March 9

★World Kidney Day, ★1824: Birth of Amasa Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, ★1934: The first man to go into space, Yuri Gagarin, was born, ★1959: The birth of the famous tabla scholar Zakir Hussain, ★1972: Telugu film music director RP Patnaik was born, and ★1994: Dada Saheb Phalke Award recipient Devika Rani.