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 130th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 26, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,586,880 minutes 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 ‘hectatriacontagon’ day.
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 265 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 4,157 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 9 Historical Events
- 1450 –'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
- 1671 –Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England’s Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
- 1941 –World War II: The 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
- 1946 –King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
- 1960 –The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle’s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill.
- 1969 –Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
- 1974 –Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
- 2002 –In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
- 2004 –Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by a land mine under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
Who were born on May 9?
- 1800 –John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
- 1888 –Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)
- 1928 –Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
- 1939 –Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis manager
- 1943 –Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (d. 2009)
- 1954 –Lawrence Dutton, American violist
- 1955 –Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
- 1965 –Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 –Andrew W.K., American musician
- 1982 –Rachel Boston, American actress
Who died on May 9?
- 1760 –Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
- 1805 –Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)
- 1931 –Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1957 –Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
- 1998 –Rommie Loudd, former American football player, coach, and executive (b. 1933)
- 1998 –Talat Mahmood, Indian singer (b. 1924)
- 2003 –Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
- 2009 –Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist (b. 1924)
- 2010 –Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
- 2010 –Otakar Motejl, Czechoslvakian politician (b. 1932)
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