About May 9
May 9, 2024 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.
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Taurus is the sun 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.
What Happened On May 9
- 1450 –'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
- 1874 –The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
- 1877 –A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
- 1877 –Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
- 1887 –Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London.
- 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.
- 1920 –Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
- 1926 –Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd’s diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
- 1936 –Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
- 1940 –World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
- 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.
- 1948 –Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
- 1955 –Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
- 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.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
- 1980 –In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
- 2002 –The 38-day stand-off 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.
- 2004 –Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by a land mine under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
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