Editing May 9 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[328]] &ndash; [[Athanasius of Alexandria|Athanasius]] is elected [[Patriarch of Alexandria]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert S.|last=Phillips|title=New Encyklopedia|publisher=Funk&Wagnalls |year=1971|page=33|isbn=0-8343-0051-6}}</ref>
*[[1009]] &ndash; [[Norman conquest of southern Italy#Lombard revolt, 1009–1022|Lombard Revolt]]: Lombard forces led by [[Melus of Bari|Melus]] revolt in [[Bari]] against the Byzantine [[Catepanate of Italy]].
*[[1386]] &ndash; [[England]] and [[Portugal]] formally ratify [[Anglo-Portuguese Alliance|their alliance]] with the signing of the [[Treaty of Windsor (1386)|Treaty of Windsor]], making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
*[[1450]] &ndash; [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] monarch [[Abdal-Latif Mirza|'Abd al-Latif]] is assassinated.
*[[1540]] &ndash; [[Hernando de Alarcón]] sets sail on an expedition to the [[Gulf of California]].

===1601–1900===
*[[1662]] &ndash; The figure who later became [[Punch and Judy|Mr. Punch]] makes his first recorded appearance in England.<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpZhAAAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Society|page=315}}</ref>
*[[1671]] &ndash; [[Thomas Blood]], disguised as a [[clergyman]], attempts to steal England's [[Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom|Crown Jewels]] from the [[Tower of London]].
*[[1726]] &ndash; Five men arrested during a raid on [[Margaret Clap|Mother Clap]]'s [[molly house]] in London are executed at [[Tyburn, London|Tyburn]].
*[[1761]] &ndash; [[Exhibition of 1761]], the inaugural exhibition of the [[Society of Artists of Great Britain]] opens at [[Spring Gardens]] in London.<ref>Hargreaves, Matthew. ''Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791''. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005. p.174</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Second Schleswig War]]: The Danish navy defeats the [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussian]] fleets in the [[Battle of Heligoland (1864)|Battle of Heligoland]].
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]] surrenders his forces at [[Gainesville, Alabama]].
*  1865   &ndash; American Civil War: [[President Andrew Johnson]] issues a [[Conclusion of the American Civil War#Andrew Johnson's May 9 declaration (May 9)|proclamation ending belligerent rights]] of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
*[[1873]] &ndash; ''[[Panic of 1873|Der Krach]]'': The [[Wiener Börse|Vienna stock exchange]] crash begins the [[Panic of 1873]] and heralds the [[Long Depression]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Pieter M. Judson|title=Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1914|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1996|isbn=9780472107407|page=166}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Mihail Kogălniceanu]] reads, in the [[Chamber of Deputies (Romania)|Chamber of Deputies]], the Declaration of Independence of [[Romania]]. The date will become recognised as the Independence Day of Romania.

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; Australia opens its first [[Parliament of Australia|national parliament]] in [[Melbourne]].
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: [[Second Battle of Artois]] between German and French forces.
*[[1918]] &ndash; World War I: Germany repels Britain's [[Second Ostend Raid|second attempt]] to blockade the port of [[Ostend]], Belgium.
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: The Polish army under General [[Edward Rydz-Śmigły]] celebrates its [[Kiev offensive (1920)|capture of Kiev]] with a [[victory parade]] on [[Khreshchatyk]].
*[[1926]] &ndash; Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] and [[Floyd Bennett]] claim to have flown over the [[North Pole]] (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
*[[1927]] &ndash; The [[Old Parliament House, Canberra]], Australia, officially opens.<ref name="APH">{{cite web |title=No. 2 - The Opening of Parliament |url=https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Senate_Briefs/Brief02 |website=www.aph.gov.au |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=23 November 2019 |location=Canberra, Australia |language=en-AU |date=July 2019 |archive-date=18 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318145113/https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Senate_Briefs/Brief02 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1936]] &ndash; Italy formally annexes [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopia]] after taking the capital [[Addis Ababa]] on [[May 5]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The German submarine [[German submarine U-110 (1940)|''U-110'']] is captured by the [[Royal Navy]]. On board is the latest [[Enigma machine]] which [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[cryptographer]]s later use to break coded German messages.
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[The Holocaust in Ukraine]]: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the [[Podolia]]n town of [[Zinkiv]] ([[Khmelnytska oblast]]. The [[Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe|Zoludek Ghetto]] (in [[Belarus]]) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: the [[Channel Islands]] are [[Liberation of the German-occupied Channel Islands|liberated from Nazi occupation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://liberationday.je/|title=Marking 80 years of liberation in Jersey and freedom across Europe|website=liberationday.je|access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]] abdicates and is succeeded by [[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Czechoslovakia]]'s [[Ninth-of-May Constitution]] comes into effect.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Robert Schuman]] presents the "[[Schuman Declaration]]", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: [[West Germany]] joins [[NATO]].
*[[1960]] &ndash; The [[Food and Drug Administration]] announces it will approve [[birth control]] as an additional [[indication (medicine)|indication]] for [[G. D. Searle & Company|Searle]]'s [[Mestranol/noretynodrel|Enovid]], making Enovid the world's first approved [[combined oral contraceptive pill|oral contraceptive pill]].
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Carlos Lamarca]] leads the first urban guerrilla action against the [[Brazilian military government|military dictatorship]] of [[Brazil]] in [[São Paulo]], by robbing two banks.
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Watergate scandal]]: The  [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary]] opens formal and public [[Federal impeachment in the United States|impeachment]] hearings against President [[Richard Nixon]].
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Persian Jews|Iranian Jewish]] businessman [[Habib Elghanian]] is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
*[[1980]] &ndash; In [[Florida]], United States, [[Liberia]]n freighter {{ship|MV|Summit Venture}} collides with the [[Sunshine Skyway Bridge]] over [[Tampa Bay]], making a {{convert|1400|ft|m|order=flip|adj=on|sp=us}} section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a [[Greyhound bus]] fall {{convert|150|ft|m|order=flip}} into the water and die.
*  1980   &ndash; In [[Norco, California]], United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to [[Norco shootout|a violent shoot-out]] and one of the largest pursuits in [[History of California|California history]]. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[LOT Flight 5055|LOT Flight 5055 ''Tadeusz Kościuszko'' crashes after takeoff]] in [[Warsaw]], Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Parliament House, Canberra|New Parliament House, Canberra]] officially opens.<ref name=APH/>
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Armenia]]n forces capture [[Shusha]], marking a major turning point in the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Westray Mine disaster]] kills 26 workers in [[Nova Scotia]], Canada.
*[[2001]] &ndash; In [[Ghana]], 129 football fans die in what became known as the [[Accra Sports Stadium disaster]]. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
*[[2002]] &ndash; The [[Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem|38-day stand-off]] in the [[Church of the Nativity]] in [[Bethlehem]] comes to an end when the [[Palestinians]] inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.<ref>{{Cite web|last=agencies|first=Staff and|date=2002-05-07|title=Bethlehem standoff deal stalled|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/07/israel1|access-date=2021-05-23|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2018]] &ndash; [[Barisan Nasional]], the coalition that had governed Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957, suffer an historic defeat in the [[2018 Malaysian general election]].
*[[2020]] &ndash; The [[COVID-19 recession]] causes the [[Unemployment in the United States|U.S. unemployment rate]] to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=CDC|date=2022-01-05|title=CDC Museum COVID-19 Timeline|url=https://www.cdc.gov/museum/timeline/covid19.html|access-date=2022-01-11|website=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|language=en-us|archive-date=2023-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523041908/https://www.cdc.gov/museum/timeline/covid19.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Russo-Ukrainian War]]: United States President [[Joe Biden]] signs the [[Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022|2022 Lend-Lease Act]] into law, a rebooted [[Lend-Lease|World War II-era policy]] expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-biden-eastern-europe-congress-9e8d81200b45687795f2a084f3942574|title=Biden signs Ukraine bill, seeks $40B aid, in Putin rejoinder|author1=Miller, Zeke|author2=Lisa Mascaro|website=APNews.com|date=May 9, 2022|access-date=May 9, 2022|archive-date=May 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509202739/https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-biden-eastern-europe-congress-9e8d81200b45687795f2a084f3942574|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; The [[May 9 riots|May 9]] riots following the [[arrest of Imran Khan]] in [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{Cite web |author=Al Jazeera Staff |title=A year since Pakistan's May 9 riots: A timeline of political upheaval |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/9/timeline-a-year-of-ex-pm-imran-khans-arrest-may-9-violence-in-pakistan |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>