May 9: Europe Day/Schuman Day in the European Union; Victory Day in various Eastern European countries
Punch and Judy show
- 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch of the Punch and Judy show (pictured) made his first recorded appearance in England.
- 1877 – Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu made a speech in the Parliament that declared Romania was discarding Ottoman suzerainty.
- 1918 – First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
- 1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration announced it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid for birth control, making it the first oral contraceptive pill.
- 1977 – The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire, which resulted in 33 deaths and 21 injuries.
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