41st year - Nr 129 Saturday, 9 May 2026

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41st year - Nr 129 Saturday, 9 May 2026

9 May / Today's 40 Events:

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(-) 221 years ago Thursday 9th of May 1805 Poet, philosopher, historian and playwright Friedrich Johann Christoph Schiller dies of tuberculosis at the age of 46 in Schillerhaus, Schillerstraße 12, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(+) 189 years ago Tuesday 9th of May 1837 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Adam Opel is born in Rüsselsheim, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 166 years ago His Friends Were not Electric Wednesday 9th of May 1860 Murderer William Francis Kemmler aka John Hart known for becoming the first man executed using an electric chair is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 152 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1874 Archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter known for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun is born in Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 119 years ago Thursday 9th of May 1907 Nazi leader and Reichsjugendführer Baldur Benedikt von Schirach is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 118 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1908 Arbeitseinsatzführerin in Ravensbrück KZ Greta Bösel, originally Greta Müller is born in Elberfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 114 years ago Thursday 9th of May 1912 Actor Pedro Armendáriz, originally Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings is born in Mexico City, Mexico.

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(+) 105 years ago War Sie Eine Weiße Rose Monday 9th of May 1921 Founding member of the Weiße Rose resistant group Sophie Magdalena Scholl is born in Rathaus, Hauptstraße 14, Forchtenberg am Kocher, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 102 years ago Friday 9th of May 1924 Heinz Martin is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 90 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1936 Murderer Zane Brown Hill is born in Beaverdam, North Carolina, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago Monday 9th of May 1938 Serial killer Carroll Edward Cole aka Silent Rage is born in Sioux City, Iowa, United States.

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(-) 84 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1942 Pauline Coral Buchan O'Brien Thompson is strangled by serial killer Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler in Spring Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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(-) 67 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1959 Dorothy Pearce is raped and beaten to death by serial killer Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy in Southlands Beach, Bermuda, British Overseas Territories.

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(-) 58 years ago Thursday 9th of May 1968 Poet and Lesbian Rights pioneer Mercedes de Acosta dies of a brain tumour at the age of 75 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 50 years ago Sunday 9th of May 1976 Marcella Claxton is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Roundhay Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Claxton survived but required extensive brain surgery and needed 52 stitches to close the wounds in her head.

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(-) 50 years ago Sunday 9th of May 1976 Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof commits suicide by hanging with a towel at the age of 42 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. On demand of Meinhof's attorney Klaus Croissant and the International Committee for Political Prisoners an international investigation commission was created in order to examine the conditions surrounding Meinhof's death. The German authorities refused to give the complete (first) autopsy report to the commission, hindering their investigation. In 1978 the committee published its report, concluding that: "The formal claim that Ulrike Meinhof committed suicide by hangin g is unfounded, given the fact that the investigation results reasonably converge to the conclusion that she could not hang herself. Most probably Ulrike Meinhof was already dead before she was hanged and there are warning signs indicating the involvement of a third party regarding her death."

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(-) 48 years ago Tuesday 9th of May 1978 Italian Christian Democratic politician Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro is murdered by the Red Brigades at the age of 62 in Via Michelangelo Caetani, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Moro's body was left in the trunk of a red Renault 4.

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(+) 48 years ago Tuesday 9th of May 1978 9/11 terrorist Marwan al-Shehhi is born in Ras Al Khaimah, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. al-Shehhi was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 175 crashing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks. al-Shehhi was the youngest hijacker-pilot to participate in the attacks.

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(x) 47 years ago He Glued Finger-Sized Pieces of Wood Wednesday 9th of May 1979 Graduate student John Harris is injured when he opens a box left by 37-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber in Northwestern University Technological Institute, Evanston, Illinois, United States. Harris suffered minor cuts and burns. Bomb #2 consisted of a cigar box and a pipe bomb triggered by a battery-operated filament that ignited explosive powders. The package contained a number of small finger-sized pieces of wood glued to its outer container.

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(x) 45 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1981 30-year-old Irish republican hunger striker Joe Joseph McDonnel, originally Seosamh Mac Domhnaill starts hungerstriking in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. McDonnel went 61 days without food before dying on 8 July 1981.

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(-) 44 years ago Sunday 9th of May 1982 Regina Spielman is stabbed to death by serial killer Michael Wolpert aka Der Neu-Isenburger Frauenmörder in Dietzenbach, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 44 years ago Sunday 9th of May 1982 26-year-old Serial killer David Edwin Mason garottes his cellmate Boyd Johnson to death with a towel in Alameda County Santa Rita Jail, 5325 Broder Blvd, Dublin, California, United States.

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(-) 43 years ago Monday 9th of May 1983 Jimmy Roberts is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Monday 9th of May 1983 The body of 21-year-old Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer Daniel Scott McNieve is found in Clayton, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Friday 9th of May 1986 Pierre Carette, Bernard Sassoye, Didier Chevolet and Pascale Vandegeerde of Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC start hungerstriking in the prisons of St. Gillis and Vorst in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 40 years ago Friday 9th of May 1986 Laurent Bureau is raped and beaten to death by serial killer Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer aka Le Routard du Crime in Périgueux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

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(-) 40 years ago Friday 9th of May 1986 Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, originally Namgyal Wangdi dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 72 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.

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(x) 39 years ago They Were Dying Saturday 9th of May 1987 183 die in LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 Ilyushin Il-62M 'Tadeusz Kościuszko' crash in Rezerwat przyrody Las Kabacki im. Stefana Starzyńskiego, Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland. The last words inside the cockpit recorded by the CVR at 11:12:13 were: "Dobranoc! Do widzenia! Cześć, giniemy!" (Good night! Goodbye! Bye, we're dying!).

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(x) 36 years ago Wednesday 9th of May 1990 34 Jewish graves are destroyed, and the freshly buried body of 81-year-old Félix Germon is mutilated with a spear thrust through the chest and rectum by a so-called neo-Nazi commando in Cimetière Juif, Place Maurice Charretier, Carpentras, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. On 24 April 1997 four skinheads were sentenced between 20 months and two years imprisonment.

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(-) 29 years ago Friday 9th of May 1997 William R. Reese is shot dead by serial killer Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho in Finn’s Point National Cemetary, Pennsville, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Friday 9th of May 1997 Sam Samuel Joseph Arcuri, originally Salvador Arcuri is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Daniel Blank aka The Parish River Killer in LaPlace, Louisiana, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago Tuesday 9th of May 2000 Rapist and murderer William Joseph Kitchens aka Red is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Wednesday 9th of May 2001 127 die in Accra Hearts of Oak (The Phobians) Sporting Club and the Asante Kotoko (Porcupine Warriors) Sporting Club football game stampede in Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. Accra scored two late goals, and a referee called 2–1 Accra, resulting in disappointed Kotoko fans throwing plastic seats and bottles onto the pitch. The police responded by firing tear gas into the crowd.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 9th of May 2002 A plot forbidden for flying objects in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(-) 24 years ago Thursday 9th of May 2002 Rapist and murderer Reginald Lenard Reeves is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Reeves' final meal request was for four pieces of fried chicken and two Cokes.

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(-) 19 years ago Wednesday 9th of May 2007 Cop killer Philip Ray Workman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 54 in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Workman's last meal request was a large vegetarian pizza to be given to a homeless person. The prison officials denied his request and Workman refused to eat anything.

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(-) 14 years ago Wednesday 9th of May 2012 Hair stylist Vidal Sassoon dies of leukemia at the age of 84 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 6 years ago Saturday 9th of May 2020 Musician Little Richard, originally Richard Wayne Penniman dies of bone cancer at the age of 88 in Tullahoma, Tennessee, United States.

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(-) 4 years ago Monday 9th of May 2022 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Inge Viett dies of natural causes at the age of 78 in Falkensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 2 years ago He Went in the Pit with His Pendulum Thursday 9th of May 2024 Film director Roger William Corman aka The Pope of Pop Cinema dies of natural causes at the age of 98 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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