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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 26, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,715,212,800 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 ‘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 265 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 4,157 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 9 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
- 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.
- 1949 –Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
- 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.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
- 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.
- 1980 –In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
- 2001 –In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
Who were born on May 9?
- 1147 –Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
- 1918 –Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
- 1924 –Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)
- 1940 –James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
- 1948 –Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
- 1965 –Janu Tornell, American model and Survivor contestant
- 1973 –Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress
- 1979 –Brandon Webb, American baseball player
- 1979 –Matt Morris, American singer-songwriter
- 1981 –Yu Yokoyama, Japanese actor and singer
Who died on May 9?
- 1805 –Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)
- 1918 –George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
- 1949 –Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
- 1968 –Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1885)
- 1970 –Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
- 1976 –Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
- 1979 –Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist (b. 1883)
- 1994 –Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
- 2009 –Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
- 2010 –Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
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