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Events on the 9th of May in history

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09 May 1002 After trailing 9-0, St. Louis Cardinals beat Atlanta Braves 12-11
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09 May 1092 Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
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09 May 1336 Italian Poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
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09 May 1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England
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09 May 1386 England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
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09 May 1450 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
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09 May 1460 Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings
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09 May 1502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to New World
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09 May 1519 Austrian adel / burgerij in uprising against central government
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09 May 1573 Polish Parliament selects Duke of Anjou as King
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09 May 1588 Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris
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09 May 1662 The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
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09 May 1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
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09 May 1671 Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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09 May 1689 English King Willem III declares war on France
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09 May 1726 Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
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09 May 1738 England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea and West-Indies
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09 May 1753 King Louis XV disbands French parliament
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09 May 1754 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
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09 May 1763 The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
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09 May 1766 John Byron back in England after trip around the world
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09 May 1785 British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
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09 May 1788 English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade
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09 May 1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius
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09 May 1837 "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
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09 May 1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
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09 May 1862 Battle of Farmington, Mississippi
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09 May 1862 Battle of Ft Pickens, Florida (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
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09 May 1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, Rhode Island
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09 May 1864 Battle of Dalton, Georgia
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09 May 1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
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09 May 1864 Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
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09 May 1865 American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
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09 May 1865 American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
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09 May 1873 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
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09 May 1874 Victoria Embankment, in London opens
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09 May 1874 The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
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09 May 1877 A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
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09 May 1877 Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
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09 May 1882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
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09 May 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
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09 May 1896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
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09 May 1899 Lawn mower patented
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09 May 1901 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
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09 May 1904 The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
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09 May 1908 Dirk Fock becomes Governor of Suriname
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09 May 1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
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09 May 1911 The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
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09 May 1913 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
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09 May 1914 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4
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09 May 1915 German and French fight Battle of Artois
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09 May 1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
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09 May 1916 British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
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09 May 1918 World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
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09 May 1920 Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
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09 May 1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
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09 May 1926 Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
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09 May 1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
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09 May 1927 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6
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09 May 1927 Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
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09 May 1927 The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
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09 May 1929 New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates
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09 May 1929 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
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09 May 1930 56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6
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09 May 1931 57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59
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09 May 1932 58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8
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09 May 1932 Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
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09 May 1932 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
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09 May 1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike
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09 May 1936 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
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09 May 1936 Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
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09 May 1936 Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
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09 May 1937 Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
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09 May 1939 Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
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09 May 1940 World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
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09 May 1941 English Army breaks German spy codes
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09 May 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
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09 May 1942 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57
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09 May 1942 Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
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09 May 1943 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
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09 May 1943 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
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09 May 1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana
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09 May 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
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09 May 1944 Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness
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09 May 1944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
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09 May 1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
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09 May 1945 Jersey liberated from Nazis
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09 May 1945 Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
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09 May 1945 New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier
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09 May 1945 Norwegian Nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested
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09 May 1945 Victory celebration at Red Square
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09 May 1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
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09 May 1945 World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
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09 May 1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto
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09 May 1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
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09 May 1948 Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
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09 May 1949 Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco
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09 May 1949 Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
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09 May 1950 French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
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09 May 1950 Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
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09 May 1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
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09 May 1955 German Federal Republic joins NATO
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09 May 1955 Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
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09 May 1958 Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
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09 May 1958 Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
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09 May 1959 Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
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09 May 1960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
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09 May 1960 US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
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09 May 1960 US send U-2 over USSR
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09 May 1960 The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
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09 May 1961 Baltimore Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs. Minn Twins
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09 May 1961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
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09 May 1961 Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings
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09 May 1961 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
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09 May 1962 Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
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09 May 1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
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09 May 1964 Khrushchev visits Egypt
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09 May 1964 Peter and Gordon release "World Without Love"
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09 May 1964 Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
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09 May 1965 Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
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09 May 1965 Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
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09 May 1966 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
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09 May 1967 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
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09 May 1967 Gijsbert van Hall resigns as Mayor of Amsterdam
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09 May 1969 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick
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09 May 1969 Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
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09 May 1970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
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09 May 1970 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
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09 May 1971 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton
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09 May 1971 Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)
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09 May 1971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
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09 May 1971 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history
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09 May 1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open
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09 May 1973 For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game
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09 May 1974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
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09 May 1974 Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
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09 May 1975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
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09 May 1975 Flyers 1-Isles 5 - Semifinals - Flyers hold 3-2 lead
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09 May 1976 "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 performances
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09 May 1976 Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament
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09 May 1977 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
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09 May 1977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon
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09 May 1977 Patty Hearst let out of jail
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09 May 1977 Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
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09 May 1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found
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09 May 1978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
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09 May 1978 PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth
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09 May 1979 US and the USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
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09 May 1979 Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
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09 May 1980 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
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09 May 1980 In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
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09 May 1980 In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
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09 May 1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx Historian
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09 May 1982 "9" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 739 performances
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09 May 1982 Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
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09 May 1983 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson
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09 May 1984 White Sox and Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
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09 May 1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
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09 May 1987 Actor Tom Cruise (27) and actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
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09 May 1987 Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games
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09 May 1987 LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
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09 May 1988 Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms
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09 May 1989 "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
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09 May 1989 Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press
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09 May 1989 New York Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
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09 May 1989 New York Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher
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09 May 1990 New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
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09 May 1990 Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II
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09 May 1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
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09 May 1991 Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
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09 May 1992 America Cup finals begin in San Diego
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09 May 1992 Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
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09 May 1992 Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe
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09 May 1992 Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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09 May 1992 Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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09 May 1993 "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 performances
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09 May 1993 Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
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09 May 1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
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09 May 1993 Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years
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09 May 1994 "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances
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09 May 1994 Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York
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09 May 1995 Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
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09 May 1995 Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
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09 May 1997 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
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09 May 1997 San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones
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09 May 1998 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by
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09 May 2001 In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
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09 May 2002 The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
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09 May 2012 A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
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09 May 2015 Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
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09 May 2015 An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
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