May 9th, 1977

Born on May 9th, 1977

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What happened on May 9th, 1977?

May 9th, 1977

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

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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, 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.

May 9th, 2020

The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.

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

Born on May 9th, 1977

46

Svein Tuft

Racing cyclist

*May 9th, 1977, Langley

46

Thibaud Chapelle

French rower

*May 9th, 1977, Bron

46

Jason Flickinger

American rower

*May 9th, 1977, Ohio

46

Charles-Henri Grétouce

French basketball player

*May 9th, 1977, Les Abymes

46

Averno

Mexican professional wrestler

*May 9th, 1977, Mexico City

46

Marek Jankulovski

Czech association football player

*May 9th, 1977, Ostrava

46

Hugo Horn

Namibian rugby union player

*May 9th, 1977, Mariental

46

Mauro Néstor Gerk

Argentine footballer

*May 9th, 1977, Coronel Dorrego

46

Markus Oscarsson

Canoeist

*May 9th, 1977, Västerås

46

Iñigo Landaluze

Road bicycle racer

*May 9th, 1977, Getxo

22

Manuel Sanroma

Spanish racing cyclist

*May 9th, 1977, Almagro †June 19th, 1999, Sant Pere de Ribes

46

Choi Jung-yoon

South Korean actress

*May 9th, 1977, Seoul

46

Keak da Sneak

American rapper

*May 9th, 1977, Oakland

46

Roy Fink

Israeli footballer

*May 9th, 1977, Israel

46

Naoki Matoba

Baseball player

*May 9th, 1977, Sumiyoshi-ku

46

Michelle Fournier

Athletics competitor

*May 9th, 1977, Edmundston

46

Johnny McBride

Gaelic football player

*May 9th, 1977, County Londonderry

46

Dean Lawford

English rugby league footballer

*May 9th, 1977, Dewsbury

46

Irinel Voicu

Romanian footballer

*May 9th, 1977, Târgoviște

46

Brian Wesenberg

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 9th, 1977, Peterborough

46

Anthony Scott Burns

Canadian filmmaker; recording artist

*May 9th, 1977, Kitchener

46

David Janin

French Rugby union footballer

*May 9th, 1977, Tremblay-en-France

46

Milena Nekvapilová

Czech tennis player

*May 9th, 1977, Czechoslovakia

46

Vladislav Duyun

Footballer

*May 9th, 1977, Izmail

46

Aleksy Kuziemski

Polish boxer

*May 9th, 1977, Świecie

46

Ruth Corset

Cyclist

*May 9th, 1977, Wewak

46

Andrey Strokin

Russian Paralympic swimmer

*May 9th, 1977, Chernushka

46

Manuela Grillo

Sprinter

*May 9th, 1977, Pavia

46

Karl Otto Thaning

South African actor and former professional swimmer and water polo player

*May 9th, 1977, Cape Town

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37

Johanna Goliszewski

Badminton player

*May 9th, 1986, Olsztyn

49

Neli Boteva

Badminton player

*May 9th, 1974, Sofia

43

Angela Nikodinov

American figure skater

*May 9th, 1980, Spartanburg

92

Erik Dammann

Norwegian writer and environmentalist

*May 9th, 1931, Oslo

35

Jillie Cooper

Scottish badminton player

*May 9th, 1988, Edinburgh

56

Ralph Lenkert

German politician

*May 9th, 1967, Apolda

44

Rubens Bertogliati

Swiss cyclist

*May 9th, 1979, Lugano

28

Chae Yoo-jung

South Korean badminton player

*May 9th, 1995, Busan

40

Alan Campbell

British rower

*May 9th, 1983, Coleraine

42

Johnny Herrera

Chilean footballer

*May 9th, 1981, Angol

44

Rosario Dawson

American actress (born 1979)

*May 9th, 1979, New York City

71

Joan Sims

English actress (1930-2001)

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

42

Steven Caethoven

Road bicycle racer

*May 9th, 1981, Ghent

54

Annalee Newitz

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

*May 9th, 1969, Irvine

42

Oliver Zaugg

Road bicycle racer

*May 9th, 1981, Lachen

76

Michael Levitt

Biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology

*May 9th, 1947, Pretoria

31

Per Imerslund

Norwegian national socialist

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

70

Johannes Singhammer

German politician

*May 9th, 1953, Munich

82

Albert Finney

British actor

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

43

Carolin Kebekus

German comedian

*May 9th, 1980, Bergisch Gladbach

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Born in 1977

46

Zhang Jun

Chinese badminton player

*November 26th, 1977, Suzhou

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

46

Carsten Linnemann

German economist, politician

*August 10th, 1977, Paderborn

46

Anne Marie Waters

UK far-right politician (1977-)

*August 24th, 1977, Dublin

46

Emmanuel Macron

President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017

*December 21st, 1977, Amiens

46

Vanessa Trump

American model and actress

*December 18th, 1977, New York City

46

Gong Zhichao

Badminton player

*December 15th, 1977, Anhua County

46

Paul Kalkbrenner

German electronic musician

*June 11th, 1977, Leipzig

46

Ji Xinpeng

Chinese badminton player

*December 30th, 1977, Shashi District

47

Wong Choong Hann

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1977, Kuala Lumpur

46

Gail Emms

Badminton player

*July 23rd, 1977, Hitchin

46

Pernille Harder

Badminton player

*September 3rd, 1977, Odder Municipality

46

Melanie Lynskey

New Zealand actress

*May 16th, 1977, New Plymouth

46

José Antonio Crespo

Spanish badminton player

*June 24th, 1977, Arroyo de la Miel

46

Dave McCullen

Musician, music producer

*December 28th, 1977, Bonheiden

47

Shakira

Colombian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 2nd, 1977, Barranquilla

47

Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil

Danish politician

*January 17th, 1977, Zealand

47

Claudia Hiersche

German actress

*February 22nd, 1977, Frankfurt (Oder)

47

Sverre Rotevatn

Norwegian Nordic combined skier

*January 17th, 1977, Lillehammer Municipality

46

Anthony Clark

English badminton player

*November 1st, 1977, Derby

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, 1977
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1977 is a normal year and no leap year.

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