Road Warrior Radio with Chris Hinkley, March 9, 2026 Hour 1
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From The Words of Extraordinary Women to Barbie Day and the racy origins of Barbie, today’s Monday with Mitzi! episode is sure to amuse.
Links
- The Odds: Daylight Saving Time | CNN
- Circadian rhythm – Wikipedia
- Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl Who Became Barbie
- Julia Child – Wikipedia
- Rich Dad vs Poor Dad The Hidden Game That Decides Your Life || PROF JIANG XUEQIN || #profjiangstyle – YouTube
- Stanford marshmallow experiment – Wikipedia
Headlines
- Wall Street braced for huge sell-off as oil hits highest level in four years and gas prices hit $8-a-gallon | Daily Mail Online
- You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create
On This Day
- On This Day – What Happened on March 9
- Today in History: March 9, ‘Operation Meetinghouse’ firebombing devastates Tokyo | AP News
- What Happened on March 9 – On This Day
- What Happened on March 9 | HISTORY
- March 9 – Wikipedia
Holidays
- Amerigo Vespucci Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com
- Barbie Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com
- False Teeth Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com
- Fill Our Staplers Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com
- Get Over It Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com
- National Workplace Napping Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com
- Panic Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com
Historical Events
- 1961 — Ivan Ivanovich, a human dummy, travels into space
- 1959 — The Barbie doll goes on sale: Patterned after the Lilli ‘call girl’ doll,[1][2] the American toy company Mattel claims that more than one billion Barbie dolls have been sold so far, with about 3 dolls being sold every second.
- 1931 — The electron microscope is invented: German physicist Ernst Ruska is credited with the invention of the microscope. His first instrument allowed a resolution of 50 nanometers (billionths of a meter).
- 1891 — Kaʻiulani appointed the heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
- 1842 — Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy’s foremost opera composers.
- 1776 — Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations, ushering in the classical period of political economy.
Births
- 1964 — Juliette Binoche, French actress, dancer
- 1943 — Bobby Fischer, American chess player
- 1934 — Yuri Gagarin, Russian pilot, astronaut
- 1890 — Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs fr the Soviet Union
- 1568 — Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint, namesake of Gonzaga University (died 1591)
- 1451 — Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer, namesake of the Americas (died 1512)
Deaths
- 1997 — Christopher Wallace a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper
- 1996 — George Burns, American actor
- 1994 — Charles Bukowski, American poet
- 1992 — Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate, founder of Israel’s ruling Likud party, who famously boasted of being “the father of terrorism in all the world.”[3]
Footnotes
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Checkiday. “Barbie Day.” Checkiday.com, Checkiday, 11 Feb. 2017, www.checkiday.com/b7bd0e4f06056fc555595937c097c229/barbie-day. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026. ↩︎
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Nessy, Messy. “Meet Lilli, the High-End German Call Girl Who Became America’s Iconic Barbie Doll.” Messy Nessy Chic, 29 Jan. 2016, www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/29/meet-lilli-the-high-end-german-call-girl-who-became-americas-iconic-barbie-doll/. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026. ↩︎
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Bollyn, Christopher. ““Frighten the West”: The Israeli Roots of Terrorism.” Christopher Bollyn, Christopher Bollyn, 22 Nov. 2015, www.bollyn.com/frighten-the-west-the-israeli-roots-of-terrorism-2/. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
THE FATHER OF TERRORISM – Menachem Begin, the terrorist founder of Israel’s ruling Likud party, bragged about being “the father of terrorism in all the world.” The Likud party is now headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.
“How does it feel, in the light of all that’s going on, to be the father of terrorism in the Middle East?”
“In the Middle East?” he [Begin] bellowed, in his thick, cartoon accent. “In all the world!”- Russell Warren Howe interview with Menachem Begin, January 1974
