May 9, 2006: China is elected a member of the UN Human Rights Council

May 9, 1932: The Interim Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic issues a "telegram on opposing the Kuomintang to betray the Songhu Agreement", denouncing the traitorous acts of the National Government and calling for revolutionary war

May 9, 1948: The CPC Central Committee and Central Military Commission decide to merge two liberated areas of the Shanxi-Chahaer-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan regions to form the North China Bureau

May 9, 2006: China is elected a member of the UN Human Rights Council

May 9, 2010: President Hu Jintao attends Russia's celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War Victory