May 9

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 9. From 1900 until now. May 9 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Dave Gahan (1962), Rosario Dawson (1979) and Billy Joel (1949). Several movies were released around May 9 over the years, such as The Pianist in 2002 directed by Roman Polanski and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar in 1992 directed by Mansoor Khan.
But much more happened on May 9 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Russia and some other parts of the former Soviet Union ? Victory Day as the end of the "Great Patriotic War".
Our Lady of Flanders
Saint Tudi
Saint Pachomius (died 346)
Saint Gerontius (died 501)
Roman Empire ? Feast of the Lemures (See Larvae).
Jersey, Guernsey ? Liberation Day (commemorating the end of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II).
Saint Carolina
European Union ? Europe day, commemorating the "Schuman declaration".
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Events

2019 North Korean missile tests: The South Korean military claims that North Korean military has launched an "unidentified projectile" into the sea, marking the second time North Korea has conducted a weapons test in a single week. (CNBC)
2018 Terrorism in Indonesia: Prisoners at a detention centre for terrorists in Jakarta revolt, killing five officers and taking a sixth hostage. Negotiators accept a demand for an audience between the rioters and Aman Abdurrahman, an inmate who is the head of ISIL in the country. (The Wall Street Journal)
2017 Syria–United States relations, Turkey–United States relations: Despite opposition from Turkey, President Donald Trump authorizes an arms deal with the Syrian Kurds to assist the Syrian Democratic Forces in their fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (CNN)
2016 Somali Civil War (2009–present): A suicide car bomb targeting Mogadishu's traffic police headquarters kills at least four. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility. (NY Times) (Reuters)
2015 North Korea claims to have successfully test fired a ballistic missile from a submarine. (CNN)
2014 Yemeni security forces announce that they have killed Shayef Mohammed Saeed Al-Shabwani, an al-Qaeda terrorist wanted over a series of attacks in Sana'a. (CNN)
2013 War in North-West Pakistan:: Ali Haider Gillani, the son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, is abducted by unidentified gunmen at an election rally in the city of Multan two days before the May 11 general election. (BBC)
2012 Mexican Drug War:
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: Heavy shooting is heard in a western suburb of Damascus as the Syrian Army advances against anti-government protesters. (BBC)
2010 BP's containment chamber fails, prolonging the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (Reuters)
2009 Nine chemical substances are added to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants' banned list. (Reuters)
2008 Pakistan's two main coalition leaders, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif meet in London to discuss the removal of judges by Musharraf (AP via CNN)
2007 Subtropical storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest subtropical storm since Ana in 2003.
2006 Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
2005 Iran admits to having converted thirty-seven tons of raw uranium into a gas, a key step in uranium enrichment. (The Guardian)
2004 The scandal about U.S. torture in Iraq widens as The New Yorker reports about guards setting dogs against naked prisoners. (The New Yorker)
2003 As many as 129 are feared dead after a door opens on a plane flying from Kinshasa to Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The victims were sucked from the plane, which returned to Kinshasa after the incident. Although the airline to which the plane belongs to is unknown, the plane involved in the tragedy has a logo of Ukrainian Cargo Airlines.
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 terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2001 In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
1998 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by
1997 First US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam.
1996 South Africa's National Party pulls out of the coalition government formed two years earlier, and the African National Congress assumes full political control.
1995 Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus.
1994 Passion opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances
1993 Song of Jacob Zulu closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 performances
1992 Final episode of Golden Girls airs on NBC-TV
1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
1990 New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
1989 Saratina! closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
1988 Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms
1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1985 Edmond O'Brien, American actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight), dies at age 69 of Alzheimer's disease (born 1915).
1984 White Sox and Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
1983 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson win.
1982 9 opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 739 performances
1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx Historian
1980 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1979 US and the USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
1978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
1977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon
1976 So Long 174th St closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 performances
1975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
1974 House Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on President Richard Nixon impeachment.
1971 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton
1970 100,000s in the USA demonstrate against Vietnam War.
1969 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament is won by Billy Hardwick.
1967 Gijsbert van Hall resigns as Mayor of Amsterdam
1966 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
1965 Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
1964 Khrushchev visits Egypt
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1962 Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
1961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a vast wasteland
1960 US send U-2 over USSR
1959 Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from Chicago White Sox.
1958 Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship.
1956 Manaslu, eighth highest mountain in the world, is first ascended.
1955 German Federal Republic joins NATO.
1953 France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with King Norodom Sihanouk.
1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River.
1950 French Foreign minister Robert Schuman announces the Schuman Plan for European integration.
1949 Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana.
1943 5th German Panser army surrenders in Tunisia.
1942 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57.
1941 English Army breaks German spy codes.
1940 World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1939 Catholic church beatifies the first Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha.
1938 Kaarel Eenpalu becomes prime minister of Estonia.
1937 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy took to the airwaves becoming an overnight radio sensation.
1936 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike.
1932 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
1931 57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59.
1930 56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6.
1929 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
1927 Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
1919 In Belgium, a new electoral law introduces universal manhood suffrage and gives the franchise to certain classes of women.
1917 WWI: The Nivelle Offensive is abandoned.
1916 British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey.
1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1914 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4.
1913 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote.
1912 American Numismatic Association receives federal charter.
1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland.
1908 Dirk Fock becomes Governor of Suriname.
1904 The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1901 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
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