Calendar page on May 7: events, birthdays, days of death

Events, birthdays, anniversaries

Today is Tuesday, May 9th, 2023

• 19th calendar week, 129th day of the year, 236 days until the end of the year
• Star sign Taurus
• Name day: Adalgar, Beatus, Theresia, Volkmar

What happened on May 9th?

2018 – In the city center of Frankfurt am Main, the Dom-Römer-Areal, reconstructed according to historical models, is opened to the public. The costs amount to around 200 million euros.

1998 – Guildo Horn takes seventh place at the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson in Birmingham with his song “Guildo hat Euch lieb”. Victory goes to Dana International from Israel with “Diva”.

1978 – Police officers find the body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was murdered by left-wing terrorists of the “Red Brigades” in Rome.

1973 – Rainer Barzel resigns as chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. The reason for this is a lost vote in the parliamentary group on the Federal Republic’s accession to the UN.

1960 – The American health authority FDA approves the first birth control pill for the USA.

1950 – French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposes the formation of a “European Coal and Steel Community”. In doing so, he lays the foundation for the European Union.

1948 – The National Assembly of Czechoslovakia adopts a Soviet-style constitution.

1873 – A sharp drop in prices on the Vienna Stock Exchange ended the economic boom of the Wilhelminian period. A severe recession follows.

1868 – The First Symphony in C minor by Anton Bruckner is premiered in Linz.

Celebrity Birthdays: Who Was Born On May 9th?

1968 – Hardy Krueger Jr. (55), German actor (ZDF series “Forsthaus Falkenau”, TV film “Stauffenberg”)

1968 – Hendrik Martz (55), German actor (“Patrik Pacard”)

1938 – Charles Simic, American poet (“Medici Penny Grab. The Art of Joseph Cornell”), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1990, died 2023

1928 – Peter Merseburger, German television journalist and publicist, moderator of the TV political magazine “Panorama” 1967-75, ARD correspondent in East Berlin 1982-87, died 2022

1883 – Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (“The Revolt of the Masses”), died 1955

Celebrities Death Days: Who Died on May 9th?

2018 – Per Kirkeby, Danish painter and sculptor, known for his brick sculptures, ‘Kirkeby-Monument’ (Stuttgart), born 1938

2013 – Ottavio Missoni, Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur, founder of fashion company Missoni, born 1921

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