Portal:China/Anniversaries/March/March 9

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• 1958 - Cheng Yanqiu, one of the four great twentieth century performers of the Dan role type in Beijing opera, dies.
• 1972 - Ronald Cheng, a Hong Kong pop star and movie actor, is born.
• 1973 - China and Spain establish diplomatic relations.
• 1978 - A plane flying from Kaohsiung to Hong Kong is hijacked.
• 1984 - The world's first "test tube lamb" is born, after collaboration by a Mongolian and a Japanese doctor.
• 1986 - The last volume of the Hanyu Da Zidian is released.
• 1992 - The People's Republic of China signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
• 1997 - A solar eclipse and comet are witnessed together in the Great Khingan.