What are the important events that happened on May 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 9 is the 129th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 26, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 485,208 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaicosaenneagon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 284 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,522 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 9 Historical Events
- 328 –Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
- 1904 –The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph.
- 1915 –World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
- 1942 –Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
- 1945 –World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower’s deputy, and for the German side of 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.
- 1948 –Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
- 1979 –Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
- 1992 –Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
- 2002 –In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
Who were born on May 9?
- 1741 –Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
- 1873 –Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
- 1921 –Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist
- 1927 –Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1939 –Ralph Boston, American athlete
- 1942 –Jerry Buchek, American baseball players
- 1951 –Alley Mills, American actress
- 1961 –Sean Altman, American singer (Rockapella)
- 1979 –Dionysis Boukouvalas, Greek composer, pianist and musicologist
- 1979 –Matt Morris, American singer-songwriter
Who died on May 9?
- 1914 –C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
- 1950 –Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
- 1968 –Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)
- 1970 –Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
- 1979 –Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist (b. 1883)
- 1994 –Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
- 1998 –Rommie Loudd, former American football player, coach, and executive (b. 1933)
- 2000 –Arthur Davis, American animator (b. 1905)
- 2003 –Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
- 2010 –Otakar Motejl, Czechoslvakian politician (b. 1932)
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