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 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 26, 2020 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 26,483,040 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.
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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 279 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 2,696 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 9 Historical Events
- 1873 –Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
- 1901 –Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
- 1904 –The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph.
- 1920 –Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
- 1936 –Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
- 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.
- 1961 –Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
- 1969 –Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
- 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?
- 1800 –John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
- 1873 –Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
- 1918 –Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
- 1920 –Richard Adams, English author
- 1948 –Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
- 1962 –John Corbett, American actor
- 1962 –Paul Heaton, English singer/songwriter (Beautiful South)
- 1979 –Dionysis Boukouvalas, Greek composer, pianist and musicologist
- 1983 –Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
- 1985 –Henrique, Brazilian soccer player
Who died on May 9?
- 1760 –Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
- 1889 –William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
- 1915 –François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
- 1918 –George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
- 1950 –Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
- 1964 –Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
- 1997 –Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (b. 1926)
- 2000 –Arthur Davis, American animator (b. 1905)
- 2004 –Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)
- 2009 –Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist (b. 1924)
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