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 129^th 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, 1,746,748,800 seconds 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.

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.

May 9 Historical Events

• 1864 –
  Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
• 1873 –
  Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• 1887 –
  Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London.
• 1918 –
  World War I: Germans repel the British’s second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
• 1920 –
  Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
• 1948 –
  Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
• 1950 –
  Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the “Schuman declaration”, is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
• 1955 –
  Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
• 1974 –
  Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
• 1987 –
  A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M “Tadeusz Kościuszko” (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.

Who were born on May 9?

• 1874 –
  Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
• 1912 –
  Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer (d. 1990)
• 1924 –
  Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)
• 1930 –
  Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)
• 1939 –
  Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis manager
• 1949 –
  Billy Joel, American musician
• 1968 –
  David Benoit, American basketball player
• 1983 –
  Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
• 1983 –
  Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
• 1985 –
  Jake Long, American football player

Who died on May 9?

• 1315 –
  Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
• 1707 –
  Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer
• 1745 –
  Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer(b. 1663)
• 1789 –
  Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)
• 1805 –
  Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)
• 1950 –
  Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1957 –
  Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (b. 1887)
• 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)