[[05-08]] | [[05-10]] [[Victory Day]] ## Events - [[1.1386-05-09 - England and Portugal ratify alliance with Treaty of Windsor]] - [[1.1707-05-09 - Dieterich Buxtehude born]] - [[1.1860-05-09 - J. M. Barrie born]] - [[1.1865-05-09 - Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders at Gainesville, Alabama]] - [[1.1936-05-09 - Italy annexes Ethiopia]] - [[1.1945-05-09 - German Instrument of Surrender signed at Soviet HQ in Berlin-Karlshorst]] - [[1.1948-05-09 - Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution goes into effect]] - [[1.1949-05-09 - Billy Joel born]] - [[1.1950-05-09 - Schuman Declaration presented, origins of European Union]] - [[1.1955-05-09 - West Germany joins NATO]] - [[1.1955-05-09 - Anne Sofie von Otter born]] - [[1.1974-05-09 - Impeachment hearings against Richard Nixon begin]] - [[1.1979-05-09 - Rosario Dawson born]] - [[1.2020-05-09 - Little Richard died]] - [[1.2020-05-09 - U.S. unemployment hit 14.9, worst since Great Depression]]