May 9th, 1946

Born on May 9th, 1946

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What happened on May 9th, 1946?

May 9th, 1946

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_III

What else happened on May 9th?

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 1761

The inaugural exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain opened at Spring Gardens in London.

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 1980

Part of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida collapsed after a pier was struck by MV Summit Venture, killing 35 people.

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 1977

The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire (pictured), leaving 33 people dead.

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 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".

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 9th

Born on May 9th, 1946

80

Candice Bergen

American actress

*May 9th, 1946, Beverly Hills

60

Drafi Deutscher

German singer and songwriter of Sinti origin (1946-2006)

*May 9th, 1946, Berlin †June 9th, 2006, Frankfurt

80

Erik Aurelius

Swedish theologian

*May 9th, 1946, Lund

80

George Stack

Irish Roman Catholic archbishop

*May 9th, 1946, Cork

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Born in 1946

80

Donald Trump

45th President of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 14th, 1946, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

80

George W. Bush

President of the United States from 2001 to 2009

*July 6th, 1946, New Haven

79

Bill Clinton

President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)

*August 19th, 1946, Hope

80

Charlotte Rampling

British actress (born 1946)

*February 5th, 1946, Sturmer

80

Kabir Bedi

Indian actor (1946-)

*January 16th, 1946, Lahore

79

Jean-Claude Arnault

Swedish photographer

*August 15th, 1946, Marseille

80

Svein Ludvigsen

Norwegian politician

*July 18th, 1946, Hillesøy Municipality

79

Steven Spielberg

American filmmaker (born 1946)

*December 18th, 1946, Cincinnati

76

Suzanne Somers

American actress (1946–2023)

*October 16th, 1946, San Bruno †October 15th, 2023, Palm Springs

79

Berti Vogts

German footballer and manager

*December 30th, 1946, Büttgen

71

Jiří Bělohlávek

Czech conductor (1946-2017)

*February 24th, 1946, Prague †May 31st, 2017, Prague

80

Sylvester Stallone

American actor and filmmaker (born 1946)

*July 6th, 1946, Hell's Kitchen

69

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

*February 21st, 1946, Acton †January 14th, 2016, London

78

David Lynch

American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor (1946–2025)

*January 20th, 1946, Missoula †January 16th, 2025, Los Angeles

80

Gerard 't Hooft

Dutch theoretical physicist

*July 5th, 1946, Den Helder

80

Liza Minnelli

American actress and singer

*March 12th, 1946, Los Angeles

80

Mireille Mathieu

French singer

*July 22nd, 1946, Avignon

80

Dolly Parton

American singer, songwriter and actress

*January 19th, 1946, Pittman Center

80

David Gilmour

English musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)

*March 6th, 1946, Cambridge

80

Timothy Dalton

British actor of stage, film and television

*March 21st, 1946, Colwyn Bay

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 9th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Commemoration of the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands related observances, Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany) which are celebrated on May 9th.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1946 is a normal year and no leap year.

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