May 9, 2004 (Sunday)
- Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a landmine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya. (Reuters) Archived 2004-06-04 at archive.today (AP) (BBC)
- The scandal about U.S. torture in Iraq widens as The New Yorker reports about guards setting dogs against naked prisoners. (The New Yorker)
- Twenty-two passengers, two stoweaways and crew are injured when an American Eagle ATR 42, flight 1450, crash-lands in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP)