On March 9:

• 1788:  Connecticut became the 5th state to join the United States.
• 1793:  Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon flight in North America. The event was witnessed by U.S. President George Washington.
• 1964: The first Ford Mustang rolled off of the Ford assembly line.
• 2010: Three Ohio State University employees were shot, one of them fatally, in an attack early this morning on campus.

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