Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 9

This is a list of selected May 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
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  Lincoln Cathedral
• Thomas Blood (requires undeletion)
  Thomas Blood (requires undeletion)
• Wilhelm Keitel signing the WWII capitulation papers (requires undeletion)
  Wilhelm Keitel signing the WWII capitulation papers (requires undeletion)
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  Pope John Paul II
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  Thomas Blood
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  Punch and Judy show
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  Athanasius of Alexandria

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Europe Day/Schuman Day in the European Union;	refimprove section
Victory Day in various Eastern European countries	refimprove section
1092 – Lincoln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, England, was consecrated.	refimprove
1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch of the Punch and Judy show made his first recorded appearance in England.	refimprove sections
1671 – Irish-born Colonel Thomas Blood was caught trying to steal the English Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.	refimprove section
1837 – The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was held in New York City.	refimprove
1873 – Panic of 1873: The Vienna Stock Exchange crashed, following two years of overexpansion in the German and Austro-Hungarian economies.	refimprove section
1904 – On a trip from Plymouth to London Paddington, the City of Truro reputedly became the first steam locomotive in Europe to travel in excess of 100 mph (160 km/h), although this was not verified by physical recording of speed.	refimprove section
1946 – Italian King Victor Emmanuel III abdicated, hoping to influence the vote on a referendum to decide whether Italy should retain the monarchy or become a republic.	refimprove
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.	unreferenced section
1950 – French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented a proposal to place France's and West Germany's coal and steel industries under joint management, eventually leading to the founding of the European Union.	Schuman: refimprove; Declaration: refimprove
1950 – Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard was first published, describing his self-improvement techniques known as Dianetics, which later became part of the wider subject of Scientology.	original research
1980 - The MV Summit Venture collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning Tampa Bay; the main span of the southbound bridge collapsed, resulting in 35 deaths.	lead too long, refimprove section
2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, the first President of the Chechen Republic, and about 30 others were killed by a bomb during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1877 – An 8.5 M_s earthquake struck the northern portion of Chile, resulting in the death of 2,541 people, including victims of the ensuing tsunami as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• 1915 – British forces launched the Battle of Aubers Ridge, an offensive on the Western Front which was part of the larger French Second Battle of Artois.
• 1955 – Jim Henson's first and most famous Muppet Kermit the Frog made his debut on the television show Sam and Friends.
• 1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration announced it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid for birth control, making it the first oral contraceptive pill.
• 1961 – In a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow described commercial television programming as "a vast wasteland".
• 1964 – Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother, President Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed.
• 1977 – The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire, leaving 33 people dead and 21 injured.
• 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.
• 1992 – An underground methane explosion at the Westray Mine occurred in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, killing all 26 coal miners who were working at the time.
• 2001 – After a football match between Ghana's two most successful teams, police fired tear gas into the crowd to quell some unrest, causing a stampede that killed 127 people.
• 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.
• Born/died this day: Shi Pu (d. 893) · Zita of Bourbon-Parma (b. 1892) · Hilde Levi (b. 1909)

Notes

• Huế Phật Đản shootings appears on May 8, so Ngô Đình Cẩn should not be used in the same year (as he was responsible for ordering the shootings), if possible.

May 9: Liberation Day in the Channel Islands (1945)

Mihail Kogălniceanu

• 328 – Athanasius became the Patriarch of Alexandria.
• 1877 – Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu (pictured) made a speech in the Parliament that declared Romania was discarding Ottoman suzerainty.
• 1901 – The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, exactly 26 years before it moved to Canberra's Provisional Parliament House, and exactly 87 years before it moved into the Parliament House in Canberra.
• 1918 – First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
• 2012 – Pilots of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 ignored alerts from the terrain warning system and crashed into Mount Salak in Indonesia, resulting in the deaths of all 45 people on board.

Gaspard Monge (b. 1746) · Gopal Krishna Gokhale (b. 1866) · Anthony Wilding (d. 1915)

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