Year 1753
Maharaja Surajmal attack on Delhi.
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9 May: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 9 May.
Observances & Special Days
Liberation Day (Guernsey and Jersey)
Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration. (European Union)
Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany
Year 1874
Horse-drawn trams introduced in Mumbai.
Year 1874
First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.
Year 1877
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru killed 2,541 peopl
Year 1904
Steam-powered City Truro becomes the first engine in Europe to reach speeds of over 160 km / h.
Year 1907
Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal.
Year 1917
Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
Year 1933
Gandhiji announced suspension of Civil Disobedience Movement for six weeks and called on the Government to withdraw its Ordinances.
Year 1955
West Germany became a part of NATO.
Year 1995
Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.
Year 1999
India’s Rupi Unnikrishnan won silver in the prone group at the Atlanta Grand Prix shooting event.
Born 1540
Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary, soldier and freedom fighter, was born.
Born 1661
Jahandar Shah, a Mughal Emperor.
Born 1866
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter and political leader, was born in Kotluk village of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
Born 1908
Arkalgudun Krishnarao, Kannad writer, was born.
Born 1919
Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.
Born 1954
Mallika Sarabhai, an activist, and Indian classical dancer and actress.
Born 1989
Deverakonda Vijay, an Indian film actor, and producer.
Born 1992
Sai Pallavi, an Indian film actress, and dancer.
Died 1338
Saint Chokhoba passed away.
Died 1931
Albert Michelson, an American physicist.
Died 1955
Anant Mane, a film director from Maharashtra, India.
Died 1959
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, founder of Rayat Educational Institute, passed away.
Died 1981
Pandit Sundarlal, great revolutionary and writer of 'Bharat Mein Angreji Raj', passed away.
Died 1981
Durga Bai Deshmukh, social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian passed away at Hyderabad.
Died 1993
S. Mulgaokar, 82, journalist, passed away.
Died 1995
Abha Gandhi, servant to Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. He was 68 years.
Died 1998
Playback singer Talat Mehmood, 75, passed away in Mumbai.
Died 1999
Karamsibhai Jethabhai Somaiya, an Indian Industrialist.
Died 2008
Firoz Dastur, an Indian film actor and an Indian classical vocalist.