Friday May 9, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and days ago
  • month since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • week ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap’s molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph.
The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
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 teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
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.
Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.

Who were born on ?

Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)
Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis manager
Calvin Murphy, American basketball player
Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
Doug Christie, American basketball player
Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

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