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On this day - 9 March

Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.

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Death of Notorious B.I.G.

Daily Express 09/03/1997

American rapper Notorious B.I.G. died on March 9th 1997. He was leaving an awards show after party and the car he was in pulled up to a set of traffic lights. A car pulled up alongside them and shot several times at the car, with 4 bullets hitting the rapper. He was pronounced dead in hospital later that morning.

His second album was released 16 days after his murder, entitled "Life After Death".

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Final landing of Discovery

Daily Mirror 09/03/2011
On March 9th 2011 the space shuttle Discovery landed for the final time. It had completed 39 flights and spent nearly a year in space by the time it was retired. The shuttle was transferred to Washington DC and put on display in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space museum.

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