May 9th, 1987

Born on May 9th, 1987

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What happened on May 9th, 1987?

May 9th, 1987

LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_5055

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, 1987

39

Terry Reintke

German politician

*May 9th, 1987, Gelsenkirchen

39

Dan Cole

English rugby union footballer

*May 9th, 1987, Leicester

39

Heath Davidson

Australian quad wheelchair tennis player

*May 9th, 1987, Australia

39

Vitaliy Pushkar

Rally driver

*May 9th, 1987, Chișinău

39

Loïc Costerg

French bobsledder

*May 9th, 1987, Moûtiers

39

Tetsuya Fujimori

Japanese shogi player

*May 9th, 1987, Ota

39

Khyril Muhymeen

Malaysian footballer

*May 9th, 1987, Alor Setar

39

Travis Turner

Canadian actor

*May 9th, 1987, Oliver

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Born in 1987

39

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

38

Greysia Polii

Indonesian badminton player

*August 11th, 1987, Jakarta

39

Tontowi Ahmad

Indonesian badminton player

*July 18th, 1987, Banyumas

39

Annari Viljoen

Badminton player

*January 16th, 1987, Bloemfontein

38

Vance Joy

Australian singer-songwriter

*December 1st, 1987, Melbourne

39

Jax Jones

British DJ and record producer

*July 25th, 1987, London

39

Sandra Lyng

Norwegian singer

*April 18th, 1987, Mosjøen

39

Kontra K

German rapper

*July 3rd, 1987, Berlin

39

Eva Avila

Canadian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 25th, 1987, Gatineau

38

Milan Borjan

Canadian association football player

*October 23rd, 1987, Knin

39

Lionel Messi

Argentine association football player

*June 24th, 1987, Rosario

38

Philippa Strache

Austrian presenter and politician

*December 1st, 1987, Vienna

38

Rosalie Thomass

German actress

*August 14th, 1987, Munich

39

Shendy Puspa Irawati

Indonesian badminton player

*May 20th, 1987, Nganjuk

39

Andrew Ellis

Badminton player

*January 21st, 1987, Leeds

39

Vladimir Ivanov

Russian badminton player

*July 3rd, 1987, Kusa

38

Lukas Runggaldier

Italian Nordic combined skier

*July 31st, 1987, Bolzano

38

Sevdaliza

Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter, record producer, visual artist and director

*September 1st, 1987, Tehran

39

Joel Turner

Australian rapper and beatboxer

*March 3rd, 1987, Mullumbimby

39

Anna Hopkins

Canadian actress

*February 12th, 1987, Montreal

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, 1987
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1987 is a normal year and no leap year.

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