9 May

Notable Births

Noah Centineo

b. 1996

American actor (born 1996)

Tommy Edman

b. 1995

American baseball player (born 1995)

Beth Mead

b. 1995

English footballer (born 1995)

Shaboozey

b. 1995

American musician (born 1995)

Dan Burn

b. 1992

English footballer (born 1992)

Majlinda Kelmendi

b. 1991

Kosovo-Albanian judoka (born 1991)

Ellen White (footballer)

b. 1989

English footballer (born 1988)

C418

b. 1989

German musician (born 1989)

J. R. Fitzpatrick

b. 1988

Canadian stock car racing driver

Kevin Gameiro

b. 1987

French footballer (born 1987)

Jake Long

b. 1985

American football player (born 1985)

Prince Fielder

b. 1984

American baseball player (born 1984)

Gilles Müller

b. 1983

Luxembourgish tennis player

Grant Hackett

b. 1980

Australian swimmer (born 1980)

Rosario Dawson

b. 1979

American actress (born 1979)

Brandon Webb

b. 1979

American baseball player (born 1979)

Averno (wrestler)

b. 1977

Mexican professional wrestler (born 1977)

Marek Jankulovski

b. 1977

Czech footballer (born 1977)

Svein Tuft

b. 1977

Canadian cyclist

Tony Gwynn

b. 1960

American baseball player (1960–2014)

Notable Deaths

Roger Corman

d. 2024

American film director, producer, and actor (1926–2024)

Sean Burroughs

d. 2024

American baseball player (1980–2024)

Rieko Kodama

d. 2022

Japanese video game artist and producer (1963–2022)

Little Richard

d. 2020

American musician and songwriter (1932–2020)

Freddie Starr

d. 2019

British comedian and singer (1943–2019)

Robert Miles

d. 2017

Swiss-Italian record producer (1969–2017)

Edward W. Estlow

d. 2015

American journalist and businessman (1920–2015)

Kenan Evren

d. 2015

7th President of Turkey from 1982 to 1989

Elizabeth Wilson

d. 2015

American actress (1921–2015)

Giacomo Bini

d. 2014

Franciscan priest (1938–2014)

Harlan Mathews

d. 2014

American politician

N. Janardhana Reddy

d. 2014

Indian politician (1935-2014)

Mary Stewart (novelist)

d. 2014

British novelist (1916–2014)

George M. Leader

d. 2013

American politician

Ottavio Missoni

d. 2013

Founder of Missoni

Vidal Sassoon

d. 2012

British hairstylist (1928–2012)

Wouter Weylandt

d. 2011

Belgian road bicycle racer

Lena Horne

d. 2010

American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)

Chuck Daly

d. 2009

American basketball coach (1930–2009)

Walter Reuther

d. 1970

American labor union leader and progressive activist (1907–1970)

On This Day in History

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2023

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

May 9 riots

2022

Russo-Ukrainian war: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy attempting to expedite American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.

Russo-Ukrainian war

2020

The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.

COVID-19 recession

2018

Barisan Nasional, the coalition that had governed Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957, suffer a historic defeat in the 2018 Malaysian general election.

Barisan Nasional

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.

Siege of the Church of the Nativity

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.

Ghana

1992

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

Armenia

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1992

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

Westray Mine

1988

New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.

Parliament House, Canberra

1987

LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055

1980

In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 430-meter (1,400 ft) section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 46 metres (150 ft) into the water and die.

Florida

1980

In Norco, California, United States, five masked gunmen 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.

Norco, California

1979

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

Iranian Jews

1974

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

Watergate scandal

1969

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

Carlos Lamarca

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.

Food and Drug Administration