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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