It happened on this day, May 9
events:
1876 - Ueno Park opened in Tokyo, considered the first public park in Japan.
1927 – Australia's capital moved to Canberra from Melbourne.
1941 – The German submarine “U-110” falls into the hands of British forces, allowing the British to obtain a German cipher device, which allows the Allies to decipher the German cipher.
(1945–Soviet Union victory over Nazi GermanyGermany evacuated Czechoslovakia and declared it a republicItaly announced independence after World War II
1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III abdicates the throne of Italy in favor of his son Umberto II.
1947 – Declaration of independence of Romania.
1955 – West Germany joins NATO.
1974 – An earthquake on Japan's Izu Peninsula kills 30 people.
1978 – The Red Brigades execute former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, detained since his kidnapping on March 16.
1994 – African leader Nelson Mandela becomes the first African president of the Republic of South Africa.
2004 – Pro-Russian Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in an explosion at a football stadium.
2009 – Jacob Zuma is sworn in as President of the Republic of South Africa.
2015 – An Egyptian court hands down an aggravated prison sentence of 3 years against deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons in the presidential palaces affair.
✴️ The World Health Organization announces that Liberia has become completely free of the Ebola virus.
2016 – Werner Faymann resigns as Austrian chancellor and leader of the Social Democratic Party.
2018 – More than 45 people died and hundreds were injured after a flood hit Kenya's Nakuru County.
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Births:
1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese commander.
1882 – Muhammad Rifaat, Egyptian reader.
1907 – Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Hitler Youth.
1927 – Manfred Eigen, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
1930 – Khalifa Al-Talisi, Libyan writer and poet.
1933 – Jamal Mirsadeghi, Iranian novelist and short story writer.
1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator.
1938 – Charles Simic, American poet.
1940 – James Brooks, American director.
(1945-GamalEl-GhitaniEgyptian novelistMuhammadAl-TawyanaSaudi actor
1946 – Candice Bergen, Swedish actress.
** Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat and director of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
1952 – Zdenek Nehoda, Czechoslovak footballer.
1955 – Samira Baroudi, Lebanese actress.
1978 – Massimo Bacchi, Italian footballer. Ahmed Haroun, Egyptian actor.
1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress.
1981 – Mohamed Mamdouh, Egyptian actor.
1982 – Hossam Abu Saleh, Palestinian footballer.
1983 – Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer.
** Giles Müller, Luxembourg tennis player.
1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress.
1988 – Felix Bastians, German footballer.
1990 – Diego Marinho, Spanish footballer.
1991 – Genki Haraguchi, Japanese footballer.
1996 – Cameron Brannagan, English footballer.
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Death:
1791 – Abd al-Wahhab bin Muhammad al-Fayrouz, Hanbali jurist and Saudi religious writer.
1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet.
1810 – Benjamin Lincoln, American officer participating in the War of Independence.
1850 – Louis Joseph Guy-Lussac, French physicist and chemist.
1931 – Albert Michelson, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907.
1950 – Muhammad Refaat, Egyptian reader.
1951 – Rashid Yasemi, Iranian writer.
1978 – Aldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister.
1996 – Tawfiq Suleiman Assaf, Lebanese politician and businessman.
1997 – Rawya Attia, Egyptian politician.
2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, first president of the Chechen Republic.
2005 – Marouf Rafiq Mahmoud, Palestinian poet.
2010 – Lena Horne, American actress and singer.
2018 – Khadija Al-Hadithi, Iraqi Arabic linguist.
2020 – Badia bint Ali bin Al Hussein, an Iraqi princess.
** Ahmed Al-Kurd, Palestinian philanthropist, imam and politician.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ Europe Day (in the European Union).
◀️ Independence Day in Romania.
◀️ Emancipation Day in Russia and Ukraine.
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