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The 9t o Mey is the 129t day o the year (130t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 236 days ti come.
Events
1864: Naval Battle o Heligoland
1868: Reno, Nevada
1901: Australie's first pairlament
1956: Manaslu
- 1092 – The Cathedral in Lincoln, Ingland is consecratit.
- 1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinatit.
- 1864 – Denmark defeats Proushie an Austrick in the Naval Battle o Heligoland.
- 1868 – Reno, Nevada is foondit.
- 1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber o Deputies, the Declaration o Unthirldom o Romanie. This day acame the Unthirldom Day o Romanie.
- 1877 – A magnitude 8.8 yirdquauk off the coast o Peru kills 2,541, includin some as far away as Hawaii an Japan.
- 1901 – Australie's first pairlament opens in Melbourne.
- 1927 – Australie's pairlament convenes in Canberra for the first time.
- 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopie efter takin the caipital Addis Ababa on 5 Mey.
- 1945 – Warld War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst o the German uncondeetional surrender o Mey 8 in Rheims, Fraunce, wi the signaturs o Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, an for the Wastren Heidquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, Breetish Air Marshal an Eisenhower's deputy, an for the German side o Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative o the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief o Staff o OKW, an Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief o the Kriegsmarine.
- 1945 – Warld War II: The Channel Islands are liberatit bi the Breetish efter five years o German occupation.
- 1946 – Keeng Victor Emmanuel III o Italy abdicates an is succeedit bi Umberto II.
- 1949 – Rainier III o Monaco becomes Prince o Monaco.
- 1955 – Wast Germany jyns NATO.
- 1956 – Yuko Maki o Japan successfully climbs Manaslu (in Nepal), the warld's 8t-heichest muntain.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: 75,000 tae 100,000 fowk protest outside the White Hoose in Washington, D.C..
- 1988 – A new pairlament biggin is opened in Canberra, Australie.
- 1998 – Dana International o Israel becomes the first transgender person tae win the Eurovision Sang Contest.
- 2001 – 129 fowk are kilt in the Accra Stadium Disaster in Ghana.
- 2009 – Jacob Zuma becomes Preses o Sooth Africae.
- 2015 – Roushie haulds its biggest Victory Day parade in Moscow.
- 2017 – Moon Jae-in is electit Preses o Sooth Korea.
- 2017 – US Preses Donald Trump fires FBI director James Comey.
- 2018 – The Patel Dam in Kenyae's Nakaru Coonty bursts in heavy rains.
- 2018 – Mahathir Mohamad's opposeetion coaleetion wins Malaysie's general election.
Births
J. M. Barrie
Candice Bergen
- 1712 – William Pitcairn, Scots medicinar an botanist (d. 1791)
- 1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian componer (d. 1816)
- 1808 – John Scott Russell, Scots ceevil ingineer, naval airchitect an shipbigger (d. 1882)
- 1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scots writer (d. 1937)
- 1874 – Howard Carter, Inglis archaeologist (d. 1939)
- 1891 – Jimmy Paterson, Scots medicinar an fitbawer (d. 1959)
- 1909 – Robert Garioch, Scots poet an translator (d. 1981)
- 1911 – Scot Symon, Scots fitbawer (d. 1985)
- 1920 – Richard Adams, Inglis writer (d. 2016)
- 1921 – Sophie Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
- 1922 – Willie McNaught, Scots fitbawer (d. 1989)
- 1934 – Alan Bennett, Inglis playwricht
- 1936 – Glenda Jackson, Inglis actress an politeecian
- 1940 – James L. Brooks, American actor, director an producer
- 1943 – Vince Cable, Inglis politeecian
- 1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German fitbawer an manager
- 1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress
- 1947 – Dougal Dixon, Scots paleontologist, geologist an author
- 1949 – Billy Joel, American sangster
- 1959 – Janos Ader, Preses o Hungary
- 1961 – Tracy Brabin, Inglis actress an politeecian
- 1977 – Marek Jankulovski, Czech fitbawer
- 1977 – Craig Lee, Scots gowfer
- 1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
- 1993 – Laura Muir, Scots track an field athlete
- 1996 – Grace Reid, Scots diver
- 2016 – Alfie Evans, Inglis bairn in parental richts case (d. 2018)
Daiths
- 1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude, German componer (b. 1637)
- 1747 – John Dalrymple, 2nt Yerl o Stair, Scots sodger an diplomat (b. 1673)
- 1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet an playwricht (b. 1759)
- 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born pheesicist (b. 1852)
- 1949 – Louis II, Prince o Monaco (b. 1870)
- 1968 – Finlay Currie, Scots actor (b. 1878)
- 1976 – Aldo Moro, Prime meenister o Italy (b. 1916)
- 1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
- 2015 – Kenan Evren, Preses o Turkey (b. 1917)
- 2018 – Scott Hutchison, Scots sangster an muisicker (Frightened Rabbit) (b. 1981)
Halidays
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