Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 9
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May 9: Europe Day in the European Union; Liberation Day in the Channel Islands (1945); Home Front Heroes Day in the United States
Battle of Heligoland
- 1761 – The inaugural exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain opened at Spring Gardens in London.
- 1864 – Second Schleswig War: The Battle of Heligoland (depicted), the last naval engagement fought by squadrons of wooden ships, took place between the Danish and Austro-Prussian fleets.
- 1961 – In a speech to U.S. broadcasters, Newton Minow, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, described commercial television programming as "a vast wasteland".
- 2001 – Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stampede that killed 126 people.
- 2023 – Pakistani protests: Riots broke out following the arrest of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan.
- Francis Hopkinson (d. 1791)
- Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood (b. 1801)
- Beth Mead (b. 1995)
- Rieko Kodama (d. 2022)
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Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Lincoln Cathedral
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- Wilhelm Keitel signing the WWII capitulation papers (requires undeletion)Wilhelm Keitel signing the WWII capitulation papers (requires undeletion)
Pope John Paul II
Punch and Judy show
Athanasius of Alexandria
Mihail Kogălniceanu
Jim Henson
Birth-control pills
The Big Picture, depicting the opening of the first Australian Parliament
Hotel Polen fire
Kermit the Frog
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 328 – Athanasius took office as Patriarch of Alexandria. | page needed |
| 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, England, was consecrated. | refimprove |
| 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch of the Punch and Judy show made his first recorded appearance in England. | refimprove section |
| 1671 – Irish-born Colonel Thomas Blood was caught trying to steal the English Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. | refimprove section |
| 1837 – The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was held in New York City. | missing page numbers |
| 1873 – Panic of 1873: The Vienna Stock Exchange crashed, following two years of overexpansion in the German and Austro-Hungarian economies. | refimprove section |
| 1877 – Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu made a speech in Parliament that declared Romania was discarding Ottoman suzerainty. | primary sources |
| 1901 – The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, exactly 26 years before it moved to Canberra's Provisional Parliament House, and exactly 87 years before it moved into the Parliament House also in Canberra. | |
| 1904 – On a trip from Plymouth to London Paddington, the City of Truro reputedly became the first steam locomotive in Europe to travel in excess of 100 mph (160 km/h), although this was not verified by physical recording of speed. | outdated, refimprove section |
| 1946 – Italian King Victor Emmanuel III abdicated, hoping to influence the vote on a referendum to decide whether Italy should retain the monarchy or become a republic. | multiple inline CN tags |
| 1950 – French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented a proposal to place France's and West Germany's coal and steel industries under joint management, eventually leading to the founding of the European Union. | Schuman: refimprove; Declaration: refimprove |
| 1950 – Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard was first published, describing his self-improvement techniques known as Dianetics, which later became part of the wider subject of Scientology. | original research, refimprove section |
| 1955 – Kermit the Frog, a Muppet created by Jim Henson, made his debut on the television show Sam and Friends. | date not mentioned and contradicts the infobox |
| 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, the first President of the Chechen Republic, and about 30 others were killed by a bomb during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny. | refimprove section |
| 2018 – The Barisan Nasional coalition, which had governed Malaysia since independence in 1957, was voted out of power. | Orange tag for section with no citations |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale |b|1866 | unreferenced section |
| Billy Joel |b|1949 | refimprove section |
| Ulrike Meinhof |d|1976| | |
| Victory Day in various Eastern European countries (1945); | Many citations needed, uncited section |
Eligible
- 1877 – An earthquake struck northern Chile, leading to the deaths of 2,385 people, mostly victims of the ensuing tsunami, as far away as Hawaii and Fiji.
- 1915 – World War I: British forces launched the Battle of Aubers, an offensive on the Western Front, as part of the larger Second Battle of Artois.
- 1918 – First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
- 1944 – World War II: The Japanese Take Ichi convoy arrived at Halmahera in the Dutch East Indies after losing many ships and thousands of troops to Allied attacks while attempting to carry two divisions of troops from China to New Guinea.
- 1949 – Rainier III became Prince of Monaco, beginning a 56-year reign, which would make him one of the longest ruling monarchs of the 20th century.
- 1960 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid, the first combined oral contraceptive pill.
- 1964 – Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Nguyễn Khánh's military junta.
- 1968 – About 200 students at Bucks County Community College held a protest after the college canceled a planned speech by gay rights activist Dick Leitsch.
- 1977 – The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire (pictured), leaving 33 people dead.
- 1979 – Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various charges, triggering a mass exodus of Jews from Iran.
- 1980 – Part of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida collapsed after a pier was struck by MV Summit Venture, killing 35 people.
- 1992 – An underground methane explosion occurred at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killing all 26 Canadian coal miners who were working at the time.
- 2005 – Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years required after the nominee's death.
- 2012 – The pilots of a Sukhoi Superjet, ignoring alerts from the terrain warning system, crashed the aircraft into Mount Salak in Indonesia, resulting in the deaths of all 45 people on board.
- Born/died this day: | Shi Pu |d|893| Al-Adid |b|1151| Maharana Pratap<!-Indian king--> |b|1540| William Bradford |d|1657| Gaspard Monge |b|1746| John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair |d|1747| Ferdinand Monoyer |b|1836| Zita of Bourbon-Parma |b|1892| Hilde Levi |b|1909| Anthony Wilding |d|1915| Yukiya Amano |b|1947| Kate Molale |d|1980| Nuala O'Faolain |d|2008| Tom Farmer |d|2025|
Notes
- The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power appears on May 6, so Dianetics should not be used in the same year
- Huế Phật Đản shootings appears on May 8, so Ngô Đình Cẩn should not be used in the same year (as he was responsible for ordering the shootings), if possible.