May 9th, 1969

Born on May 9th, 1969

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What happened on May 9th, 1969?

May 9th, 1969

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lamarca

What else happened on May 9th?

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 the 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, FCC chairman Newton Minow 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.

May 9th, 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.

May 9th, 2022

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

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

Born on May 9th, 1969

54

Annalee Newitz

American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction

*May 9th, 1969, Irvine

54

Marek Erhardt

German actor and voice actor

*May 9th, 1969, Hamburg

54

Desi Wilson

American basketball player

*May 9th, 1969, Glen Cove

54

Larisa Matveyeva

Writer

*May 9th, 1969, Mykolaiv

54

Hugo Hoyama

Brazilian table tennis player

*May 9th, 1969, São Bernardo do Campo

54

Janni Goslinga

Dutch actress

*May 9th, 1969, Rotterdam

54

Joe Carnahan

American actor, director and producer

*May 9th, 1969, Sacramento

54

Hudson Leick

American actress

*May 9th, 1969, Cincinnati

54

Yelena Andreyeva

Russian athletics competitor

*May 9th, 1969, Revda

54

David Bull

British doctor (born 1969)

*May 9th, 1969, Farnborough

54

Paul Nehlen

American businessman, white supremacist, and politician

*May 9th, 1969, Ohio

52

Hugo Maradona

Argentine association football player

*May 9th, 1969, Lanús †December 28th, 2021, Monte di Procida

54

Agnieszka Maciąg

Polish model

*May 9th, 1969, Białystok

54

Samir Seliminski

Bulgarian footballer

*May 9th, 1969, Isperih

54

Brent Grieve

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 9th, 1969, Oshawa

54

Benjamín Rivera

Mexican voice actor

*May 9th, 1969, Mexico

54

Frédéric Arpinon

Footballer

*May 9th, 1969, Nîmes

54

Ronny Gaspercic

Belgian footballer

*May 9th, 1969, Genk

54

Teresa Hill

Actress, interior designer

*May 9th, 1969, Burley

54

Joy Brook

British actress

*May 9th, 1969, Scarborough

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Who's birthday is on May 9th?

56

Ralph Lenkert

German politician

*May 9th, 1967, Apolda

37

Johanna Goliszewski

Badminton player

*May 9th, 1986, Olsztyn

49

Neli Boteva

Badminton player

*May 9th, 1974, Sofia

92

Erik Dammann

Norwegian writer and environmentalist

*May 9th, 1931, Oslo

35

Jillie Cooper

Scottish badminton player

*May 9th, 1988, Edinburgh

28

Chae Yoo-jung

South Korean badminton player

*May 9th, 1995, Busan

71

Joan Sims

English actress (1930-2001)

*May 9th, 1930, Basildon †June 27th, 2001, London

43

Angela Nikodinov

American figure skater

*May 9th, 1980, Spartanburg

70

Johannes Singhammer

German politician

*May 9th, 1953, Munich

76

Michael Levitt

Biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology

*May 9th, 1947, Pretoria

40

Alan Campbell

British rower

*May 9th, 1983, Coleraine

31

Per Imerslund

Norwegian national socialist

*May 9th, 1912, Christiania †December 7th, 1943, Oslo

82

Albert Finney

British actor

*May 9th, 1936, Salford †February 7th, 2019, Royal Marsden Hospital

46

Svein Tuft

Racing cyclist

*May 9th, 1977, Langley

55

Hardy Krüger Jr.

German actor

*May 9th, 1968, Lugano

62

Tracy Brabin

British politician and former actress (born 1961)

*May 9th, 1961, Batley

64

János Áder

President of Hungary from 2012 to 2022

*May 9th, 1959, Csorna

101

Ole Mørk Sandvik

Norwegian musicologist and educator

*May 9th, 1875, Ringsaker Municipality †August 5th, 1976, Oslo

42

Johnny Herrera

Chilean footballer

*May 9th, 1981, Angol

55

Nataša Pirc Musar

President of Slovenia since 2022

*May 9th, 1968, Ljubljana

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Born in 1969

55

Brian Krause

American actor

*February 1st, 1969, Lake Forest

54

Justine Frischmann

English musician

*September 16th, 1969, Kensington

54

Lucero

Mexican singer and actress

*August 29th, 1969, Mexico City

54

Thomas Vinterberg

Danish film director

*May 19th, 1969, Copenhagen

54

Søren Rasted

Danish musician

*June 13th, 1969, Blovstrød

54

Magnus Samuelsson

Swedish strongman

*December 21st, 1969, Kisa

54

Jens Eriksen

Danish badminton player

*December 30th, 1969, Copenhagen

55

Michael Schumacher

German racing driver

*January 3rd, 1969, Hürth

54

Ansgar Brinkmann

German footballer

*July 5th, 1969, Vechta

54

Brad Beven

Triathlete

*September 18th, 1969, Mirriwinni

54

Catrine Bengtsson

Badminton player

*September 21st, 1969, Gothenburg

54

Jyri Aalto

Finnish badminton player

*July 11th, 1969, Helsinki

54

Markus Gisdol

German association football player and manager

*August 17th, 1969, Geislingen an der Steige

55

Jintara Poonlarp

Thai female singer

*March 6th, 1969, Kaset Wisai

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

54

Linus Torvalds

Finnish-American software engineer

*December 28th, 1969, Helsinki

54

Jennifer Lopez

American singer and actress

*July 24th, 1969, The Bronx

54

Maj Helen Sorkmo

Norwegian cross-country skier

*August 14th, 1969, Os Municipality

55

Bettina Stucky

Swiss actress

*January 1st, 1969, Bern

54

Matthew Perry

American-Canadian actor (1969–2023)

*August 19th, 1969, Williamstown †October 28th, 2023, Los Angeles

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on May 9th, 1969
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1969 is a normal year and no leap year.

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