May 9th, 1983

Born on May 9th, 1983

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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, 1983

43

Alan Campbell

British rower

*May 9th, 1983, Coleraine

43

Ryūhei Matsuda

Japanese actor

*May 9th, 1983, Suginami-ku

43

Leandro Rinaudo

Italian association football player

*May 9th, 1983, Palermo

43

Gilles Muller

Luxembourgian tennis player

*May 9th, 1983, Luxembourg

43

Shinya Aoki

Japanese martial artist

*May 9th, 1983, Shizuoka

43

Christos Marangos

Cypriot footballer

*May 9th, 1983, Limassol

43

Flavio Sala

Guitarist

*May 9th, 1983, Bojano

43

Evelyn Stevens

American racing cyclist

*May 9th, 1983, Claremont

43

Carol Nakamura

Brazilian actress

*May 9th, 1983, Rio de Janeiro

43

Maria Lund

Actress and singer

*May 9th, 1983, Munich

43

Vitaly Shulakov

Russian ice hockey player

*May 9th, 1983, Angarsk

43

Bobby Goepfert

American ice hockey goaltender

*May 9th, 1983, Kings Park

43

Beate Baumgartner

Austrian singer

*May 9th, 1983, Windhoek

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Born in 1983

42

Kamilla Rytter Juhl

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1983, Skagen

42

Loreen

Moroccan and Swedish singer and songwriter

*October 16th, 1983, Danderyd

42

Katrina Kaif

British-Indian actress (born 1983)

*July 16th, 1983, Hong Kong

42

Petya Nedelcheva

Bulgarian badminton player

*July 30th, 1983, Stara Zagora

43

John Lundvik

Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter

*January 27th, 1983, London

43

Kaisa Mäkäräinen

Finnish biathlete

*January 11th, 1983, Ristijärvi

43

Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen

Member of the Danish parliament

*May 4th, 1983, Brovst

42

Carsten Mogensen

Danish badminton player

*July 24th, 1983, Roskilde

43

Bao Chunlai

Chinese badminton player

*February 17th, 1983, Changsha

43

Lee Jae-jin

South Korean badminton player

*January 26th, 1983, Miryang

43

Summer Cem

German rapper

*April 11th, 1983, Mönchengladbach

43

Liisi Koikson

Estonian singer

*June 4th, 1983, Kilingi-Nõmme

43

Seth Sentry

Australian rapper

*January 4th, 1983, Sorrento

42

Philipp Lahm

German association football player

*November 11th, 1983, Munich

42

Matthias Mangiapane

*September 29th, 1983, Langen

43

Laura de Boer

Dutch actress

*February 26th, 1983, Amsterdam

42

Daniel Norgren

Swedish singer

*July 18th, 1983, Borås

42

Mila Kunis

American actress (born 1983)

*August 14th, 1983, Chernivtsi

43

Julius Onah

American film director

*February 10th, 1983, Makurdi

42

Andrew Garfield

British-American actor

*August 20th, 1983, 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.

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Born on May 9th, 1983
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1983 is a normal year and no leap year.

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