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Current events of March 9, 2015 (2015-03-09) (Monday)

A man kills five people in the Japanese city of Sumoto, Hyōgo in a prolonged stabbing attack. (ABC and AFP via ABC Australia)
American film director Randall Miller pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing and will spend two years in county jail and another eight on probation in regards to the February 20, 2014 death of Camera assistant Sarah Jones by a freight train in south east Georgia (also injured six other crew members) during filming of a biopic about singer Gregg Allman called Midnight Rider. (BBC)

Solar powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 begins its circumnavigation of the earth. (BBC)