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On this day: May 9th

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328 Athanasius of Alexandria is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.

1009 Norman conquest of southern Italy # Lombard revolt, 1009–1022: Lombard forces led by Melus of Bari revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.

1386 England and Portugal formally ratify Anglo-Portuguese Alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor (1386), making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.

1450 Timurid dynasty monarch Abdal-Latif Mirza is assassinated.

1540 Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.

1662 The figure who later became Punch and Judy makes his first recorded appearance in England.

1671 Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom from the Tower of London.

1726 Five men arrested during a raid on Margaret Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn, London.

1761 Exhibition of 1761, the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain opens at Spring Gardens in London.

1864 Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia fleets in the Battle of Heligoland (1864).

1865 American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.

1865 American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a Conclusion of the American Civil War # Andrew Johnson's May 9 declaration (May 9) of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.

1873 ''Panic of 1873'': The Wiener Börse crash begins the Panic of 1873 and heralds the Long Depression.

1877 Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies (Romania), the Declaration of Independence of Romania. The date will become recognised as the Independence Day of Romania.

1901 Australia opens its first Parliament of Australia in Melbourne.

1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.

1918 World War I: Germany repels Britain's Second Ostend Raid to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.

1920 Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its Kiev offensive (1920) with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.

1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)

1927 The Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, officially opens.

1936 Italy formally annexes Ethiopian Empire after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.

1941 World War II: The German submarine German submarine U-110 (1940) is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allies of World War II cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.

1942 The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast. The Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.

1945 World War II: the Channel Islands are Liberation of the German-occupied Channel Islands.

1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II of Italy.

1948 Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.

1950 Robert Schuman presents the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.

1955 Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.

1960 The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication (medicine) for G. D. Searle & Company's Mestranol/noretynodrel, making Enovid the world's first approved combined oral contraceptive pill.

1969 Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the Brazilian military government of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.

1974 Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public Federal impeachment in the United States hearings against President Richard Nixon.

1979 Persian Jews businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.

1980 In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall into the water and die.

1980 In Norco, California, United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to Norco shootout and one of the largest pursuits in History of California. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.

1987 LOT Flight 5055 in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.

1988 Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.

1992 Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

1992 Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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 tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.

2002 The Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.

2018 The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.

2020 The COVID-19 recession causes the Unemployment in the United States to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression in the United States.

2022 Russo-Ukrainian War: United States President Joe Biden signs the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 into law, a rebooted Lend-Lease expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.

2023 The May 9 riots riots following the arrest of Imran Khan in Pakistan.

1147 Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shōgun (d. 1199)

1151 al-Adid, last Fatimid caliph (d. 1171)

1540 Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)

1555 Jerónima de la Asunción, Spanish Catholic nun and founder of the first monastery in Manila (d. 1630)

1594 Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, military leader in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1662)

1617 Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655)

1740 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer and educator (probable; d. 1816)

1746 Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1818)

1763 János Batsányi, Hungarian-Austrian poet and author (d. 1845)

1800 John Brown (abolitionist), American activist (d. 1859)

1801 Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood (d. 1866)

1814 John Brougham, Irish-American actor and playwright (d. 1880)

1823 Frederick Weld, English-New Zealand politician, 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)

1824 Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, Polish apologist and author (d. 1896)

1825 James Collinson, Victorian painter (d. 1881)

1836 Ferdinand Monoyer, French ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart (d. 1912)

1837 Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel (d. 1895)

1845 Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and businessman (d. 1913)

1850 Edward Weston (chemist), English-American chemist (d. 1936)

1855 Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch composer (d. 1932)

1860 J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (d. 1937)

1866 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian economist and politician (d. 1915)

1870 Harry Vardon, British golfer (d. 1937)

1873 Anton Cermak, Czech-American captain and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)

1874 Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939)

1882 George Barker (painter), American painter (d. 1965)

1882 Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967)

1883 José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, author, and critic (d. 1955)

1884 Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (d. 1917)

1885 Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (d. 1977)

1888 Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (d. 1918)

1888 Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (d. 1964)

1892 Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1989)

1893 William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1947)

1894 Benjamin Graham, British-American economist, professor, and investor (d. 1976)

1895 Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)

1895 Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)

1895 Frank Foss (athlete), American pole vaulter (d. 1989)

1896 Richard Day (art director), Canadian-American art director and set decorator (d. 1972)

1900 Maria Malicka (actress), Polish stage and film actress (d. 1992)

1907 Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1978)

1907 Baldur von Schirach, German politician (d. 1974)

1908 Billy Jurges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1997)

1909 Gordon Bunshaft, American architect, designed the Solow Building (d. 1990)

1912 Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (d. 1963)

1914 Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor and director (d. 2005)

1914 J. Merrill Knapp, American musicologist (d. 1993)

1914 Hank Snow, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)

1918 Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)

1921 Daniel Berrigan, American priest, poet, and activist (d. 2016)

1921 Sophie Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)

1924 Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)

1927 Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2019)

1928 Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)

1928 Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)

1930 Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)

1931 Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut

1932 Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)

1934 Alan Bennett, English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist

1935 Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (d. 2018)

1936 Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)

1936 Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (d. 2023)

1937 Dave Prater, American singer (d. 1988)

1938 Carroll Cole, American serial killer (d. 1985)

1938 Charles Simić, Serbian-American poet and editor (d. 2023)

1939 Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager

1940 James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1941 Dorothy Hyman, English sprinter

1942 John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General

1943 Vince Cable, English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

1943 Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)

1945 Jupp Heynckes, German footballer and manager

1946 Candice Bergen, American actress and producer

1947 Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (d. 2019)

1948 Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and radio host

1949 Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1951 Alley Mills, American actress

1951 Joy Harjo, American poet, musician, playwright and author, 23rd United States Poet Laureate

1955 Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (d. 2012)

1955 Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish soprano and actress

1956 Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress and producer

1960 Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)

1961 John Corbett, American actor

1962 Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter

1962 Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter

1965 Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

1968 Graham Harman, American philosopher and academic

1968 Ruth Kelly, British economist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport

1968 Marie-José Pérec, French sprinter

1970 Doug Christie, American basketball player and coach

1970 Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer

1970 Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor

1973 Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan runner

1975 Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1975 Brian Deegan (rider), American motocross rider

1977 Averno (wrestler), Mexican wrestler

1977 Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer

1977 Svein Tuft, Canadian cyclist

1979 Rosario Dawson, American actress

1979 Brandon Webb, American baseball player

1980 Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer

1983 Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player

1984 Prince Fielder, American baseball player

1985 Jake Long, American football player

1987 Kevin Gameiro, French footballer

1988 J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian racing driver

1989 Ellen White (footballer), English footballer

1989 Daniel Rosenfeld, German musician

1991 Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka

1992 Dan Burn, English footballer

1995 Tommy Edman, American baseball player

1995 Beth Mead, English footballer

1995 Shaboozey, American rapper and singer-songwriter

1996 Noah Centineo, American actor

2000 Trey Lance, American football player

480 Julius Nepos, Roman emperor

729 Osric of Northumbria, king of Northumbria

893 Shi Pu, warlord of the Tang Dynasty

909 Adalgar, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen

934 Wang Sitong, Chinese general and governor (b. 892)

1280 Magnus VI of Norway

1315 Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)

1329 John Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells

1443 Niccolò Albergati, Italian Cardinal and diplomat (b. 1373)

1446 Mary of Enghien (b. 1368)

1590 Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon (born 1523) French cardinal and pretender to the throne (b. 1523)

1657 William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor), English-American politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)

1707 Dieterich Buxtehude, German-Danish organist and composer (b. 1637)

1736 Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese judge and politician (b. 1658)

1745 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)

1747 John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish field marshal and diplomat, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France (b. 1673)

1760 Nicolaus Zinzendorf, German bishop and saint (b. 1700)

1789 Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (b. 1715)

1790 William Clingan, American politician (b. 1721)

1791 Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)

1805 Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright, and historian (b. 1759)

1850 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)

1850 Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)

1861 Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)

1864 John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)

1889 William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)

1906 Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)

1911 Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American abolitionist (b. 1823)

1914 C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)

1915 François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)

1915 Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)

1918 George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)

1931 Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1852)

1933 John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)

1935 Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)

1938 Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)

1942 Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)

1944 Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)

1949 Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)

1950 Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)

1957 Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)

1957 Ezio Pinza, Italian actor and singer (b. 1892)

1959 Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (b. 1887)

1965 Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)

1968 Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)

1968 Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created ''Little Orphan Annie'' (b. 1894)

1968 Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1883)

1968 Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)

1970 Walter Reuther, American union leader (b. 1907)

1976 Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)

1976 Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)

1977 James Jones (author), American novelist (b. 1921)

1978 Giuseppe Impastato, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1948)

1978 Aldo Moro, Italian lawyer and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)

1979 Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)

1979 Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (b. 1918)

1980 Kate Molale, South African activist (b. 1928)

1981 Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1909)

1981 Rolf Just Nilsen, Norwegian singer and actor (b. 1931)

1983 Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (b. 1891)

1985 Edmond O'Brien, American actor and director (b. 1915)

1986 Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)

1987 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)

1989 Keith Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)

1993 Penelope Gilliatt, English novelist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1932)

1994 Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (b. 1924)

1997 Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (b. 1926)

1997 Marco Ferreri, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)

1998 Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)

1998 Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)

2003 Russell B. Long, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1918)

2004 Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (b. 1951)

2004 Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)

2004 Brenda Fassie, South African singer (b. 1964)

2007 Dwight Wilson (veteran), Canadian soldier (b. 1901)

2008 Jack Gibson (rugby league), Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1929)

2008 Baptiste Manzini, American football player (b. 1920)

2008 Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist and producer (b. 1942)

2008 Pascal Sevran, French singer, television host, and author (b. 1945)

2009 Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)

2010 Lena Horne, American singer, actress, and activist (b. 1917)

2010 Otakar Motejl, Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1932)

2011 Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)

2012 Bertram Cohler, American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic (b. 1938)

2012 Geoffrey Henry, Cook Islander lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)

2012 Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (b. 1928)

2013 Ramón Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1952)

2013 George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)

2013 Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (b. 1933)

2013 Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (b. 1921)

2014 Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary (b. 1938)

2014 Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)

2014 Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, Indian politician, 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1935)

2014 Mary Stewart (novelist), British author and poet (b. 1916)

2015 Edward W. Estlow, American football player and journalist (b. 1920)

2015 Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)

2015 Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (b. 1921)

2017 Robert Miles, a Swiss-born Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ (b. 1969)

2018 Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor (b. 1938)

2019 Freddie Starr, English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor (b. 1943)

2020 Little Richard, American singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1932)

2022 John Leo, American a writer and journalist (b. 1935)

2022 Rieko Kodama, Japanese game developer (b. 1963)

2024 Sean Burroughs, American baseball player (b. 1980)

2024 Roger Corman, American film director, producer, and actor (b. 1926)

2024 Rex Murphy, Canadian political commentator (b. 1947)

Christian feast day:

- Beatus of Lungern

- Bienheuré

- Saint Christopher (Eastern Orthodox Church)

- George Preca

- Gerontius of Cervia

- Gregory of Nazianzen (Episcopal Church (United States) and General Roman Calendar of 1960 # May)

- Nicolaus Zinzendorf (Lutheran)

- Pachomius the Great

- Tudy of Landevennec

- May 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Commemoration of the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands related observances:

- Liberation Day (Channel Islands), commemorating the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. (Guernsey and Jersey)

- National Day (Alderney)

Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration. (European Union, Kosovo, Moldova, Public holidays in Ukraine)

Victory Day (9 May) observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (Public holidays in the Soviet Union, Public holidays in Azerbaijan, Public holidays in Belarus, Public holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Public holidays in Georgia, Public holidays in Israel, Public holidays in Kazakhstan, Public holidays in Kyrgyzstan, Public holidays in Moldova, Public holidays in Russia, Public holidays in Serbia, Public holidays in Tajikistan, Public holidays in Turkmenistan, Public holidays in Uzbekistan)

- Victory and Peace Day, marks the Battle of Shusha (1992) (1992) in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the end of World War II. (Armenia)

Goku Day (Japan), commemorating the fictional character Goku.

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