9 Mey

The **9t o Mey** is the 129t day o the year (130t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 236 days ti come.

## Events

*1092 &ndash; The Cathedral in Lincoln, Ingland is consecratit.
*1450 &ndash; 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinatit.
*1864 &ndash; Denmark defeats Proushie an Austrick in the Naval Battle o Heligoland.
*1868 &ndash; Reno, Nevada is foondit.
*1877 &ndash; Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber o Deputies, the Declaration o Unthirldom o Romanie. This day acame the Unthirldom Day o Romanie.
*1877 &ndash; A magnitude 8.8 yirdquauk off the coast o Peru kills 2,541, includin some as far away as Hawaii an Japan.
*1901 &ndash; Australie's first pairlament opens in Melbourne.
*1927 &ndash; Australie's pairlament convenes in Canberra for the first time.
*1936 &ndash; Italy formally annexes Ethiopie efter takin the caipital Addis Ababa on 5 Mey.
*1945 &ndash; Warld War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst o the German uncondeetional surrender o Mey 8 in Rheims, Fraunce, wi the signaturs o Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, an for the Wastren Heidquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, Breetish Air Marshal an Eisenhower's deputy, an for the German side o Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative o the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief o Staff o OKW, an Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief o the Kriegsmarine.
*1945 &ndash; Warld War II: The Channel Islands are liberatit bi the Breetish efter five years o German occupation.
*1946 &ndash; Keeng Victor Emmanuel III o Italy abdicates an is succeedit bi Umberto II.
*1949 &ndash; Rainier III o Monaco becomes Prince o Monaco.
*1955 &ndash; Wast Germany jyns NATO.
*1956 &ndash; Yuko Maki o Japan successfully climbs Manaslu (in Nepal), the warld's 8t-heichest muntain.
*1970 &ndash; Vietnam War: 75,000 tae 100,000 fowk protest outside the White Hoose in Washington, D.C..
*1988 &ndash; A new pairlament biggin is opened in Canberra, Australie.
*1998 &ndash; Dana International o Israel becomes the first transgender person tae win the Eurovision Sang Contest.
*2001 &ndash; 129 fowk are kilt in the Accra Stadium Disaster in Ghana.
*2009 &ndash; Jacob Zuma becomes Preses o Sooth Africae.
*2015 &ndash; Roushie haulds its biggest Victory Day parade in Moscow.
*2017 &ndash; Moon Jae-in is electit Preses o Sooth Korea.
*2017 &ndash; US Preses Donald Trump fires FBI director James Comey.
*2018 &ndash; The Patel Dam in Kenyae's Nakaru Coonty bursts in heavy rains.
*2018 &ndash; Mahathir Mohamad's opposeetion coaleetion wins Malaysie's general election.

## Births

*1712 &ndash; William Pitcairn, Scots medicinar an botanist (d. 1791)
*1740 &ndash; Giovanni Paisiello, Italian componer (d. 1816)
*1808 &ndash; John Scott Russell, Scots ceevil ingineer, naval airchitect an shipbigger (d. 1882)
*1860 &ndash; J. M. Barrie, Scots writer (d. 1937)
*1874 &ndash; Howard Carter, Inglis archaeologist (d. 1939)
*1891 &ndash; Jimmy Paterson, Scots medicinar an fitbawer (d. 1959)
*1909 &ndash; Robert Garioch, Scots poet an translator (d. 1981)
*1911 &ndash; Scot Symon, Scots fitbawer (d. 1985)
*1920 &ndash; Richard Adams, Inglis writer (d. 2016)
*1921 &ndash; Sophie Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
*1922 &ndash; Willie McNaught, Scots fitbawer (d. 1989)
*1934 &ndash; Alan Bennett, Inglis playwricht
*1936 &ndash; Glenda Jackson, Inglis actress an politeecian
*1940 &ndash; James L. Brooks, American actor, director an producer
*1943 &ndash; Vince Cable, Inglis politeecian
*1945 &ndash; Jupp Heynckes, German fitbawer an manager
*1946 &ndash; Candice Bergen, American actress
*1947 &ndash; Dougal Dixon, Scots paleontologist, geologist an author
*1949 &ndash; Billy Joel, American sangster
*1959 &ndash; Janos Ader, Preses o Hungary
*1961 &ndash; Tracy Brabin, Inglis actress an politeecian
*1977 &ndash; Marek Jankulovski, Czech fitbawer
*1977 &ndash; Craig Lee, Scots gowfer
*1979 &ndash; Rosario Dawson, American actress
*1993 &ndash; Laura Muir, Scots track an field athlete
*1996 &ndash; Grace Reid, Scots diver
*2016 &ndash; Alfie Evans, Inglis bairn in parental richts case (d. 2018)

## Daiths
*1707 &ndash; Dieterich Buxtehude, German componer (b. 1637)
*1747 &ndash; John Dalrymple, 2nt Yerl o Stair, Scots sodger an diplomat (b. 1673)
*1805 &ndash; Friedrich Schiller, German poet an playwricht (b. 1759)
*1931 &ndash; Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born pheesicist (b. 1852)
*1949 &ndash; Louis II, Prince o Monaco (b. 1870)
*1968 &ndash; Finlay Currie, Scots actor (b. 1878)
*1976 &ndash; Aldo Moro, Prime meenister o Italy (b. 1916)
*1986 &ndash; Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
*2015 &ndash; Kenan Evren, Preses o Turkey (b. 1917)
*2018 &ndash; Scott Hutchison, Scots sangster an muisicker (Frightened Rabbit) (b. 1981)

## Halidays
* Victory Day (Roushie an several Eastren European an umwhile Soviet Union kintras)
* Europe Day
* Leeberation Day (Channel Islands)