May 9th, 1965

Born on May 9th, 1965

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What 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.

May 9th, 1918

First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.

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

Born on May 9th, 1965

61

Tomás Roncero

Spanish sports journalist

*May 9th, 1965, Villarrubia de los Ojos

61

Marcus Kretzer

German pianist and music teacher

*May 9th, 1965, Hilden

61

Steve Yzerman

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1965)

*May 9th, 1965, Cranbrook

61

Zhanar Aitzhanova

Kazakh politician

*May 9th, 1965, Turkistan Region

61

Mark Leibovich

American journalist and writer

*May 9th, 1965, Boston

61

Lothar Sippel

German football player and manager

*May 9th, 1965, Göttingen

61

Charley Drayton

American musician

*May 9th, 1965, Brooklyn

61

Sandra Corveloni

Brazilian actress

*May 9th, 1965, São Paulo

61

Gundars Daudze

Latvian politician

*May 9th, 1965, Riga

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61

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

61

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

61

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

*July 23rd, 1965, Freiberg †June 24th, 2019, Dresden

60

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

60

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

61

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

61

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

60

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

60

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

61

Bastian Sick

German journalist

*July 17th, 1965, Lübeck

61

Gero Miesenböck

Austrian neuroscientist

*July 15th, 1965, Braunau am Inn

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

German novelist, painter, and illustrator (1965-2013)

*June 12th, 1965, Hamburg †August 26th, 2013, Berlin

60

Shah Rukh Khan

Indian actor, producer and television personality

*November 2nd, 1965, New Delhi

61

Brooke Shields

American actress (born 1965)

*May 31st, 1965, Manhattan

60

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

60

Winfried Bausback

German politician

*October 22nd, 1965, Aschaffenburg

60

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

60

Petro Poroshenko

5th President of Ukraine

*September 26th, 1965, Bolhrad

60

Laurent Blanc

French association football player and manager

*November 19th, 1965, Alès

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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Born on May 9th, 1965
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1965 is a normal year and no leap year.

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