May 9
People born on this day are Taurus.
- 1979
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.
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In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 430-meter (1,400 ft) section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 46 metres (150 ft) into the water and die.
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In Norco, California, United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
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LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
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New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
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Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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Mother's Day bus crash kills 22 passengers and injures another 22, including the driver in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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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.
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The 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.
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Barisan Nasional, the coalition that had governed Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957, suffer a historic defeat in the 2018 Malaysian general election.
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The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.
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Russo-Ukrainian war: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy attempting to expedite American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.
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1996Noah Centineo, American actor
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1995Tommy Edman, American baseball player
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1995Beth Mead, English footballer
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1995Shaboozey, American rapper and singer-songwriter
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1992Dan Burn, English footballer
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1991Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka
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1989Ellen White, English footballer
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1989Daniel Rosenfeld, German musician
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1988J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian racing driver
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1987Kevin Gameiro, French footballer
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1984Prince Fielder, American baseball player
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1983Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
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