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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Thomas Blood (requires undeletion)
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Wilhelm Keitel signing the WWII capitulation papers (requires undeletion)
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Thomas Blood
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 328 – Athanasius became the Patriarch of Alexandria. | refimprove section |
| 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, England, was consecrated. | refimprove |
| 1671 – Irish-born Colonel Thomas Blood was caught trying to steal the English Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. | refimprove section |
| 1901 – The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, exactly 26 years (1927) before it moved to Canberra's Provisional Parliament House, and exactly 87 years (1988) before it moved into the over AU$1.1 billion Parliament House in Canberra. | refimprove |
| 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. | lots of {{cn}} tags |
| 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 |
| 1950 – French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented the Schuman Declaration, a proposal to place France's and West Germany's coal and steel industries under joint management, triggering a series of events that eventually led to the founding of the European Union | refimprove, conflict of interest |
| 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. | tagged {{or}} |
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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: Yom Hazikaron (Israel, 2011); Victory Day in various Eastern European countries; Europe Day/Schuman Day in the European Union; Independence Day in Romania (1877)
- 1873 – Panic of 1873: The Vienna Stock Exchange crashed, following two years of overexpansion in the German and Austro-Hungarian economies.
- 1955 – Jim Henson's most famous Muppet Kermit the Frog made his debut on the television show Sam and Friends.
- 1964 – Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, was executed.
- 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.
- 2005 – Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor Pope John Paul II (pictured), waiving the standard five years required after the nominee's death.