What Happened In May 2009 In History

Historical Events for May, 2009

• 1st » Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
• 7th » Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 2009 Napier shootings or 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.
• 18th » Sri Lankan Civil War: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam known as LTTE are defeated by the Government of Sri Lanka e.g Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
• 23rd » Former President of South Korea e.g South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, jumping from a 45 meter cliff in Bongha, Gimhae, South Korea.
• 25th » North Korea allegedly tests 2009 North Korean nuclear test named its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
• 27th » A 2009 Lahore bombing e.g suicide bombing kills at least 35 people and injures 250 more in Lahore, Pakistan.

Famous Birthdays on May in 2009

• 4th » Prince Henrik of Denmark

Famous Deaths for May 2009

• 1st » Danny Gans, American singer and comedian (b. 1956)
• 2nd » Kiyoshiro Imawano, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (RC Succession) (b. 1951)
• 2nd » Jack Kemp, American football player and politician (b. 1935)
• 3rd » Ton Lutz, Dutch actor (b. 1919)
• 3rd » Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (b. 1928)
• 3rd » Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar, Indian author and critic (b. 1931)
• 4th » Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933)
• 6th » Kevin Grubb, American race car driver (b. 1978)
• 6th » Viola Wills, American singer (b. 1939)
• 7th » Mickey Carroll, American actor (b. 1919)
• 7th » David Mellor (designer) named David Mellor, English designer (b. 1930)
• 7th » Danny Ozark, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1923)
• 8th » Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 8th » Bud Shrake, American journalist and author (b. 1931)
• 9th » Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 9th » Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer (b. 1924)
• 11th » Pat Booth, English model, photographer, and author (b. 1943)
• 11th » Lude Check, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• 11th » Abel Goumba, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1926)
• 11th » Claudio Huepe, Chilean economist and politician (b. 1939)
• 11th » Bill Kelso, American baseball player (b. 1940)
• 11th » Mark Landon, American actor (b. 1948)
• 11th » Shanthi Lekha, Sri Lankan actress (b. 1929)
• 11th » Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (b. 1915)
• 11th » Leonard Shlain, American surgeon and author (b. 1937)
• 12th » Antonio Vega (singer) e.g Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nacha Pop) (b. 1957)
• 13th » Frank Aletter, American actor (b. 1926)
• 13th » Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian rabbi (b. 1934)
• 13th » Achille Compagnoni, Italian skier and mountaineer (b. 1914)
• 15th » Bud Tingwell, Australian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
• 15th » Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)
• 17th » Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, author, and poet (b. 1920)
• 17th » Jung Seung-hye, South Korean journalist and producer (b. 1965)
• 18th » Dolla (rapper) called Dolla, American rapper (b. 1987)
• 18th » Wayne Allwine, American voice actor and sound editor (b. 1947)
• 18th » Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
• 19th » Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 19th » Nicholas Maw, English composer and academic (b. 1935)
• 19th » Clint Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1913)
• 19th » Herbert York, American physicist and academic (b. 1921)
• 20th » Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924)
• 20th » Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
• 20th » Lucy Gordon (actress) e.g Lucy Gordon, English model and actress (b. 1980)
• 23rd » Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (b. 1946)
• 24th » Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Wilco) (b. 1963)
• 25th » Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)
• 26th » Stanley Chapman, English architect (b. 1925)
• 26th » Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (b. 1941)
• 26th » Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
• 27th » Thomas Franck (lawyer) called Thomas Franck, American lawyer and educator (b. 1931)
• 27th » Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)
• 27th » Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (b. 1917)
• 27th » Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian-American priest (b. 1946)
• 27th » William Refshauge, Australian soldier and physician (b. 1913)
• 27th » Paul Sharratt, English-American television host (b. 1933)
• 29th » Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
• 30th » Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
• 30th » Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (b. 1916)
• 31st » Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer (b. 1912)
• 31st » Danny La Rue, Irish-English actor and singer (b. 1927)
• 31st » George Tiller, American physician (b. 1941)

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