May 9
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May 9 is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
- 1439 – Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
- 1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
- 1746 – Theodore Sedgwick, American politician (d. 1813)
- 1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
- 1810 - Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (d. 1883)
- 1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German pianist (d. 1889)
- 1823 – Frederick Weld, British colonial governor and 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)
- 1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
- 1837 – Ben Hall, Australian bushranger (d. 1865)
- 1843 – Anton von Werner, Prussian painter (d. 1915)
- 1845 - Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor (d. 1913)
- 1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
- 1866 – Leon Bakst, Russian painter (d. 1924)
- 1870 – Hans Baluschek, German artist (d. 1935)
- 1873 – Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
- 1874 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
- 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
- 1882 – George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
- 1883 – Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
- 1886 - Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
- 1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
- 1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
- 1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961).
- 1896 – Richard Day, Canadian film art director (d. 1972)
- 1907 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
- 1910 – Barbara Woodhouse, Irish-born animal trainer (d. 1988)
- 1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
- 1914 – Hank Snow, Canadian-born country musician (d. 1999)
- 1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Orville Freeman, American politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Richard Adams, author
- 1920 – William Tenn, author (d. 2010)
- 1921 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
- 1924 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian poet, writer, novelist and musician (d. 1997)
- 1927 – Wim Thoelke, show master (d. 1995)
- 1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist
- 1928 – Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
- 1928 – Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)
- 1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress
- 1934 – Alan Bennett, British author
- 1935 – Roger Hargreaves, British author (The Mr. Men) (d. 1988)
- 1935 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist and actor
- 1936 – Glenda Jackson, British actress and politician
- 1936 – Albert Finney, British actor
- 1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
- 1938 - Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet
- 1939 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
- 1940 – James L. Brooks, American producer and writer
- 1942 – John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General
- 1943 – Vince Cable, British politician
- 1944 – Richie Furay, American musician ("Poco", "Buffalo Springfield")
- 1944 - Petra Roth, former Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
- 1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer
- 1945 - Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian author and journalist
- 1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress
- 1946 – Drafi Deutscher, German musician (d. 2006)
- 1949 – Billy Joel, American musician
- 1949 – Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, President of Niger (d. 1999)
- 1950 – Luciano Spinosi, Italian footballer
- 1955 – Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
- 1959 - Janos Ader, President of Hungary
- 1962 – John Corbett, American actor
- 1962 - Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter and musician
- 1962 - Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician
- 1964 – Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and DJ
- 1964 – David Gahan, Singer for Depeche Mode
- 1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 – Marie-José Perec, French athlete
- 1968 – Ruth Kelly, British politician
- 1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper
- 1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
- 1970 - Amber, Dutch-German singer, songwriter and producer
- 1971 – Paul McGuigan, British musician (Oasis)
- 1971 - Don Hutchison, English-Scottish footballer
- 1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
- 1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
- 1982 – Kim Jung-woo, South Korean footballer
- 1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
- 1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
- 1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
- 1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress and television personality
- 1989 - Ellen White, English footballer
- 1993 - Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor, singer and dancer
- 1997 - Zane Huett, American actor
Deaths [change]
- 1280 – King Magnus VI of Norway (b. 1238)
- 1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
- 1707 – Dietrich Buxtehude, German composer (b. 1637)
- 1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
- 1760 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
- 1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (b. 1759)
- 1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
- 1864 - John Sedgwick, American general (b. 1813)
- 1889 - William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
- 1909 - Margarete Steiff, German founder of the Steiff toy company (b. 1847)
- 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist (b. 1852)
- 1949 – Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
- 1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist and engineer (b. 1883)
- 1955 - Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1858)
- 1957 - Enzo Pinza, Italian opera singer (b. 1892)
- 1959 - Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and social activist (b. 1887)
- 1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
- 1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright and costume designer (b. 1893)
- 1968 - Harold Gray, American cartoonist (b. 1894)
- 1970 – Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
- 1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, member of the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
- 1978 - Giuseppe Impastato, Italian political activist (b. 1948)
- 1978 – Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
- 1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain climber (b. 1914)
- 1987 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (b. 1928)
- 1997 - Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
- 1998 – Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
- 2001 – Nikos Sampson, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1935)
- 2001 – James E. Myers, American songwriter and producer (b. 1919)
- 2003 - Russell B. Long, American politician (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (b. 1951)
- 2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Acharya Mahapragya, Indian religious leader (Jainism) (b. 1920)
- 2010 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
- 2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
- 2011 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, former acting President of Bolivia (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928)
- 2012 - Geoffrey Henry, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
- 2013 - George M. Leader, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
- 2013 - Andrew Simpson, British sailor (b. 1976)
Events [change]
- 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
- 1671 – Thomas Blood attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels.
- 1763 - The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
- 1868 – Reno, Nevada, is founded.
- 1873 - The Long Depression begins with the Vienna stock market crash.
- 1877 - Mihai Kogalniceanu reads out the Declaration of Romania's independence.
- 1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Peru kills 2,541 people.
- 1887 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show begins in London.
- 1901 – Australia's first parliament opens in Melbourne.
- 1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 miles per hour (160.9 kilometers per hour) in speed.
- 1918 - World War I: German troops repel the second British attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
- 1927 – Australia's parliament moves from Melbourne to the new capital city, Canberra.
- 1934 - In the United States, one of the worst Dust Bowl storms occurs, reaching Chicago on the same day and the East Coast the next day, completely destroying many livelihoods, especially in rural areas.
- 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia.
- 1940 - World War II: A German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris in Den Helder, Netherlands.
- 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. The Enigma cryptography machine is on board, and is later used to break coded German messages.
- 1942 - World War II: Officers of the SS murder 588 people in the town of Zinkiv in western Ukraine.
- 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated from German occupation by the British.
- 1946 – Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy abdicates the throne. Umberto II of Italy succeeds him. His reign only lasts a few weeks, as a majority in a June 2 referendum chooses to make Italy a republic.
- 1948 - Czechoslovakia's 9th May Constitution enters effect.
- 1949 – Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
- 1950 – Robert Schuman proposes the creation of an organised Europe.
- 1950 – L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, is published.
- 1955 – West Germany joins NATO.
- 1956 – Yuko Maki climbs Manaslu in Nepal, the 8th highest mountain in the world.
- 1970 – 70,000 to 100,000 people protest against the Vietnam War in front of the White House.
- 1974 – Impeachment hearings begin against Richard Nixon.
- 1978 – Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is murdered by the Red Brigades.
- 1980 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter, MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, making a section of it collapse, killing 35 people.
- 1987 – A plane crash in Warsaw kills 183 people.
- 1988 – Canberra's Parliament House opens.
- 1992 – Armenia's army captures Shushi, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
- 2001 – Ghana: The Accra Stadium Disaster occurs. 129 people are killed.
- 2002 - A 38-day stand-off at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ends when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to different countries.
- 2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a parade, killing 43 people.
- 2004 – Chechnya's President Akhmad Kadyrov is killed.
- 2011 - Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt suffers a serious accident during the Giro d'Italia race, dying of his injuries.
- 2012 - A Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
Holidays [change]
- Victory and Peace Day in Armenia, the capture of Shushi in the Karabakh War and the end of Great Patriotic War.
- Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- Independence Day (Romania)
