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Events on May 9

• 1502 From Cádiz, Christopher Columbus sets out with his son Fernando and the four ships Capitana, La Gallega, Santiago de Palos and Vizcaína on his fourth voyage to the New World.
• 1873 The Gründerkrach, a stock market crash on the Vienna Stock Exchange triggered by reckless speculation surrounding the Vienna World's Fair, leads to a severe international recession following the Gründer era. When the speculative bubble bursts on “Black Friday,” around 120 companies alone become insolvent.
• 1876 The German inventor Nicolaus Otto runs his first four-stroke engine, the Otto engine, on an experimental basis.
• 1927 Canberra, founded 14 years earlier, becomes Australia's new capital with the opening of the Provisional Parliament House by the future King George VI and Prime Minister Stanley Bruce, thereby replacing Melbourne.
• 1950 Building on Jean Monnet's idea, France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presents the Schuman Plan in the Salon de l’Horloge at the Quai d’Orsay. In it, he proposes the creation of a coal and steel production community as the nucleus of European cooperation.
• 1955 As part of the Western integration of the Federal Republic of Germany, its accession to NATO is formalized at a ceremony in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.
• 1958 In San Francisco, Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Vertigo premieres, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak in the lead roles. The film receives mixed reviews.
• 1964 1. FC Köln becomes the first champion of the German Bundesliga, which was introduced in the previous year.
• 1976 Ulrike Meinhof, a member of the first generation of the Red Army Faction, is found hanged in her cell at Stuttgart-Stammheim prison.
• 1994 After the ANC's victory in the first democratic elections in South Africa, Nelson Mandela is elected president. He is the first Black president in the country's history.
• 1998 1. FC Kaiserslautern, coached by Otto Rehhagel, becomes the first promoted club in the history of the Bundesliga to win the German championship.
• 2006 Armin Meiwes, who became known as the “Cannibal of Rotenburg,” is sentenced to life imprisonment by the Regional Court following a retrial on charges of murder and disturbance of the peace of the dead.

Born on May 9

• 1860 J. M. Barrie, British writer and playwright
• 1874 Howard Carter, British archaeologist
• 1892 Zita von Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of Austria
• 1921 Sophie Scholl, German student and resistance fighter
• 1940 James L. Brooks, American film director and screenwriter
• 1962 Dave Gahan, English singer
• 1972 Tommy Krappweis, German author and director
• 1980 Carolin Kebekus, German cabaret artist
• 1980 Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
• 2000 Juri Knorr, German handball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „9. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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