In Events:
| May 9th 1002 | | After trailing 9-0, St Louis Cards beat Atlanta Braves 12-11
| | May 9th 1092 | | Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
| | May 9th 1336 | | Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
| | May 9th 1386 | | Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England
| | May 9th 1460 | | Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings
| | May 9th 1502 | | Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
| | May 9th 1519 | | Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government
| | May 9th 1573 | | Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king
| | May 9th 1588 | | Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris
| | May 9th 1671 | | Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
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In Births:
| May 9th 1265 | | Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia)
| | May 9th 1596 | | Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
| | May 9th 1738 | | John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet
| | May 9th 1740 | | Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
| | May 9th 1783 | | Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
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In Deaths:
| May 9th 1079 | | Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered
| | May 9th 1280 | | Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42
| | May 9th 1443 | | Niccol¢ d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies
| | May 9th 1460 | | Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies
| | May 9th 1474 | | Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded
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