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
- 1092 –Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
- 1671 –Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England’s Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
- 1877 –A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
- 1911 –The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
- 1948 –Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
- 1949 –Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
- 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.
- 1964 –Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family’s toppling, is executed.
- 1992 –Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
- 2006 –Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
Who were born on May 9?
- 1147 –Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
- 1837 –Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
- 1912 –Per Imerslund, Norwegian writer (d. 1943)
- 1921 –Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
- 1928 –Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
- 1931 –Vance Brand, American astronaut
- 1933 –Jessica Steele, English romance novelist
- 1954 –Lawrence Dutton, American violist
- 1977 –Iñigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist
- 1983 –Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
Who died on May 9?
- 1964 –Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
- 1965 –Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
- 1968 –Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
- 1976 –Ulrike Meinhof, German communist militant (b. 1934)
- 1979 –Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist (b. 1883)
- 1985 –Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1994 –Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
- 2002 –Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
- 2008 –Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
- 2010 –Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
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