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May 9
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'''
May 9''' is the 129th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (130th in
leap years). There are 236 days remaining.
Events
*
328 -
Athanasius of Alexandria Athanasius is elected
Patriarch of Alexandria Patriarch bishop of
Alexandria.
*
1092 -
Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
*
1450 -
'Abd al-Latif Mirza (
Timurid Dynasty Timurid monarch) assassinated.
*
1502 -
Christopher Columbus leaves
Spain for his fourth and final journey to the "
New World".
*
1671 -
Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the
Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom Crown Jewels from the
Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by
Charles II of England King Charles II.
*
1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on
Margaret Clap Mother Clap's molly house in
London are executed at
Tyburn, London Tyburn.
*
1868 - The city of
Reno, Nevada, is founded.
*
1874 - The first horse drawn carriage made its début in the city of
Mumbai, plying on two routes.
*
1887 -
Buffalo Bill Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in
London.
*
1901 -
Australia opens its first
Australian Parliament parliament in
Melbourne.
*
1914 -
Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne) J.T. Hearne becomes the first
bowler (cricket) bowler to take 3000
first-class cricket first-class wickets.
*
1915 -
World War I:
Second Battle of Artois between
Germany German and
France French forces.
*
1926 - Admiral
Richard E. Byrd and
Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the
North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
*
1927 - The
Australian Parliament first convenes in
Canberra.
*
1936 -
Italy formally annexes
Ethiopia after taking the capital
Addis Ababa on
May 5.
*
1940 -
World War II: The German
submarine Unterseeboot 9 U-9 sinks French coastal submarine ''
Doris'' near
Den Helder.
*
1941 - World War II: The
Germany German submarine
U-110 is captured by the
Royal Navy. On board is the latest
Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
*
1942 - World War II: Belgrade becomes the first Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its Jewish Population, largely with the help of Serbian collaborators.
*
1945 - World War II: The final
Germany German surrender to
Marshal Georgy Zhukov at
Karlshorst Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by
Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the
Luftwaffe,
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of
OKW, and
Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the
Kriegsmarine.
*1945 - World War II:
Hermann Göring is captured by the
United States Army.
*1945 - World War II:
Norway arrests
Vidkun Quisling.
*1945 - World War II:
Red Army enters
Prague (capitulation of Nazi occupation troops)
*1945 - World War II: The
Soviet Union marks
Victory Day.
*1945 - World War II: The
Channel Islands are formally
Occupation of the Channel Islands#Liberation liberated by the British.
*
1946 - King
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by
Humbert II of Italy Humbert II.
*
1949 -
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of
Monaco.
*
1950 -
Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized
Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "
Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the
European Union.
* 1950 -
L. Ron Hubbard publishes his book on
Dianetics, entitled "
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health''.
*
1955 -
Cold War:
West Germany joins
NATO.
*1955 - ''
Sam and Friends'' debuts on a local US television channel, marking the first television appearance of both
Jim Henson and what would become
Kermit the Frog and the
Muppets.
*
1956 - First ascent of
Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.
*
1960 -
Reproductive rights: The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration approves sale of the
birth control pill.
*
1970 - Vietnam War: In
Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protestors peacefully demonstrate behind a barricaded
White House.
*
1974 -
Watergate Scandal: The
United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public
impeachment hearings against
President of the United States President Richard M. Nixon.
*
1980 - In
Florida,
Liberian freighter
SS Summit Venture SS ''Summit Venture'' hits the
Sunshine Skyway Bridge over
Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses.
*1980 - The first meeting of
Pope John Paul II and the
Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in
Ghana.
*
1987 - A Polish LOT
Ilyushin IŁ 62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG). crashes after takeoff in
Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
*1987 - In
Brussels,
Belgium,
Johnny Logan (singer) Johnny Logan wins the thirty-second
Eurovision Song Contest for
Ireland singing "Hold Me Now".
*
1992 - In
Malmö,
Sweden,
Linda Martin wins the thirty-seventh
Eurovision Song Contest for
Ireland singing "Why Me".
*1992 - At 5:18 a.m. ADT The
Westray Mine in
Plymouth, Nova Scotia experiences a methane explosion killing all 26 miners who were working.
*
1994 -
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as
South Africa's first black
president.
*
1998 - In
Birmingham,
United Kingdom,
Dana International wins the forty-third
Eurovision Song Contest for
Israel singing "Diva".
*
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the
Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem comes to an end when the
Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries.
*2002 - In
Kaspiysk,
Russia, a remote-controlled
bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
*
2004 -
Chechnya Chechen president
Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a
land mine landmine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a
World War II memorial victory parade in
Grozny,
Chechnya.
*2004 - Team of
Canadian national men's hockey team Canada won the
2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships World Ice Hockey Championship in
Prague.
Births
*
1147 -
Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d.
1199)
*
1439 -
Pope Pius III (d.
1503)
*
1741 -
Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d.
1816)
*
1800 -
John Brown (abolitionist) John Brown, American abolitionist (d.
1859)
*
1837 -
Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (b.
1895)
*
1860 -
J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d.
1937)
*
1873 -
Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d.
1933)
*
1874 -
Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d.
1939)
*
1882 -
George Barker (painter) George Barker, American painter (d.
1965)
* 1882 -
Henry J. Kaiser, American ship-builder (d.
1967)
*
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 (b.
1895)
*
1907 -
Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d.
1974)
*
1912 -
Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d.
1963)
* 1912 -
Per Imerslund, "The aryan idol" (d.
1943)
*
1914 -
Hank Snow, Canadian-born musician (d.
1999)
*
1918 -
Mike Wallace (journalist) Mike Wallace, American journalist
* 1918 -
Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d.
2003)
*
1920 -
Richard Adams (author) Richard Adams, English author
* 1920 -
William Tenn, American author
*
1921 -
Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d.
1943)
* 1921 -
Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d.
2004)
*
1924 -
Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d.
1997)
*
1927 -
Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*
1928 -
Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer (d.
1982)
* 1928 -
Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d.
1995)
* 1928 -
Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
*
1930 -
Joan Sims, British actress (d.
2001)
*
1934 -
Alan Bennett, British author
*
1936 -
Albert Finney, British actor
* 1936 -
Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
*
1937 -
José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
*
1939 -
Ralph Boston, American athlete
*
1940 -
James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
*
1942 -
John Ashcroft,
United States Attorney General
*
1944 -
Richie Furay, American musician (
Poco and
Buffalo Springfield)
*
1946 -
Candice Bergen, American actress
*
1949 -
Billy Joel, American musician
*
1955 -
Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
*
1963 -
Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (
Novi Fosili)
*
1964 -
David Gahan, English singer (
Depeche Mode)
* 1964 -
Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey
*
1965 -
Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player
*
1968 -
Marie-José Perec, French athlete
*
1970 -
Ghostface Killah, American rapper
*
1972 -
Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist
*
1975 -
George Boateng, Dutch footballer
*
1978 -
Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine football player
*
1979 -
Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (
Simple Plan)
*
1982 -
Rachel Boston, American actress
Deaths
*
1315 -
Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b.
1282)
*
1446 -
Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b.
1368)
*
1657 -
William Bradford (1590-1657) William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (b.
1590)
*
1707 -
Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer
*
1747 -
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b.
1673)
*
1760 -
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b.
1700)
*
1789 -
Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b.
1715)
*
1790 -
William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
*
1791 -
Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b.
1737)
*
1805 -
Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b.
1759)
*
1861 -
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b.
1805)
*
1889 -
William S. Harney, U.S. general (b.
1800)
*
1903 -
Paul Gauguin, French painter (b.
1848)
*
1931 -
Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1852)
*
1938 -
Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b.
1866)
*
1949 - Prince
Louis II, Prince of Monaco Louis II of Monaco (b.
1870)
*
1950 -
Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b.
1883)
*
1955 -
Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of
William Booth William and
Catherine Booth (b.
1858)
*
1957 -
Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b.
1892)
*
1968 -
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b.
1893)
*
1970 -
Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b.
1884)
*1970 -
Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b.
1907)
*
1976 -
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b.
1920)
*
1978 -
Aldo Moro,
Prime Minister of Italy (b.
1916)
*
1985 -
Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b.
1915)
*
1986 -
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b.
1914)
*
1989 -
Keith Whitley, American country music singer (b.
1955)
*
1994 -
Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b.
1924)
*
1998 -
Alice Faye, American actress (b.
1915)
*
2003 -
Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b.
1918)
*
2004 -
Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b.
1951)
*2004 -
Alan King, American comedian (b.
1927)
*
2005 -
Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b.
1969)
Holidays and observances
*
Russia and some other parts of the former
Soviet Union –
Victory Day as the end of the "
Great Patriotic War"
*
European Union –
Europe day, commemorating the "
Schuman declaration"
*
Jersey,
Guernsey –
Liberation Day
*
Roman Empire –
Feast of the Lemures (See
Larvae)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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''The New York Times'': On This Day
-
ThisDayThatYear.com on May 9
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May 8 -
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April 9 -
June 9 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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