9 May

1875 - Gregoria de Jesus, future Filipina patriot and first woman initiated in the Katipunan, the secret revolutionary organization aimed at overthrowing Spanish colonial rule,  is born in Caloocan, Manila; nicknamed Oriang, she will become the wife of Gat Andres Bonifacio, the revolutionary movement's founder and leader--to be wedded first under Catholic Church rites in Binondo and later, under Katipunan rites in the house of their sponsors.

1950 - The roots of Scientology sprouts with the publication of "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" a book wherein Lafayetter Ronald Hubbard introduces a branch of self-help psychology; with the success of the book that sold over 100,000 just in two years of publication, Hubbard would later found Scientology that expanded on Dianetics by bringing his popular version of psychotherapy into the realm of philosphy and later, religion.

1972 - Twelve Israeli commandos disguised as maintenance staff successfully storms the hijacked Sabena Boeing at Lod airport in Tel Aviv releasing 100 people on board and killing two of the Arab hijackers; two women hijackers recruited by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will be found guilty and jailed for life in August 1972 based on evidence that they boarded the Sabena aircarft with explosives packed into the lining of their corsets, apart from the possession of concealed pistol and grenade.

1979 - Twenty four demonstrators are killed when El Salvador police open fire outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in El Salvador during the protest organized by the left-wing Popular Revolutionary Bloc; the carnage is but one of the many violent clashes between protesters and the country's police, including the La Matanza (slaugher) peasant revolt incident that killed some 30,000 people over 50 years earlier.

1999 - The Chinese people demonstrate their anger at the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade which killed four people during the 1998 air strikes conducted by  NATO countries following international pressure on Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic to stop the escalating violence against ethnic Albanians; the demonstrations in China are the biggest and angriest yet to date, with students chanting anti-Nato and anti-American slogans such as "Clinton, We're not Monica!"