What happened this day in history May 9

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, 29,112,480 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 ‘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.
  • 1873
    Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
  • 1877
    A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
  • 1904
    The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph.
  • 1911
    The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
  • 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.
  • 1946
    King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
  • 1948
    Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
  • 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.

Who were born on May 9?

  • 1860
    J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
  • 1907
    Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
  • 1921
    Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist
  • 1921
    Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
  • 1937
    David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)
  • 1939
    Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988)
  • 1948
    Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
  • 1955
    Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
  • 1963
    Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili)
  • 1976
    Christos Marangos, Greek-Cypriot footballer

Who died on May 9?

  • 1790
    William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
  • 1889
    William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
  • 1918
    George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
  • 1931
    Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
  • 1950
    Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
  • 1957
    Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
  • 1989
    Keith Whitley, American country music singer (b. 1955)
  • 1998
    Talat Mahmood, Indian singer (b. 1924)
  • 2010
    Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
  • 2010
    Otakar Motejl, Czechoslvakian politician (b. 1932)

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