Today in History
May 9
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| 1092, Lincoln Cathedral consecrated | ||
| 1336 Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux | ||
| 1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England | ||
| 1460 Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings | ||
| 1502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World | ||
| 1519 Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government | ||
| 1573 Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king | ||
| 1588 Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris | ||
| 1671 Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels | ||
| 1689 English King Willem III declares war on France | ||
| 1738 England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies | ||
| 1753 King Louis XV disbands French parliament | ||
| 1766 John Byron back in England after trip around the world | ||
| 1785 British inventor Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle | ||
| 1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius | ||
| 1837 "Sherrod" burns in Mississipi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies | ||
| 1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande | ||
| 1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark | ||
| 1874 Victoria Embankment, in London opens | ||
| 1882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized | ||
| 1896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models) | ||
| 1899 Lawn mower patented | ||
| 1901 Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne | ||
| 1908 Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname | ||
| 1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland | ||
| 1913 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote | ||
| 1914 Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day | ||
| 1915 In World War I, the battle of Artois began. By the time the battle ended on May 27, 216,000 men were killed or wounded | ||
| 1916 British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey | ||
| 1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid | ||
| 1926 Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole | ||
| 1927 Australian Parliament 1st convenes in new capital, Canberra | ||
| 1932 Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity | ||
| 1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike | ||
| 1936 Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia) | ||
| 1936 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire | ||
| 1941 English Army breaks German spy codes | ||
| 1943 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia | ||
| 1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana | ||
| 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested | ||
| 1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana | ||
| 1945 Germany's Field Marshal Keitel signed final surrender documents at the end of World War II; the German garrison in the Channel Islands surrendered on the same day | ||
| 1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day) | ||
| 1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto | ||
| 1949 Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London | ||
| 1949 Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco | ||
| 1950 Robert Schuman announces the Schuman Plan for European integration | ||
| 1950 French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS | ||
| 1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River | ||
| 1955 German Federal Republic joins NATO | ||
| 1958 Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship | ||
| 1960 The United States became the first country to legalize the birth control pill | ||
| 1960 Nigeria becomes a member of the British Commonwealth | ||
| 1960 US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally | ||
| 1960 US send U-2 over USSR | ||
| 1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time | ||
| 1964 Khrushchev visits Egypt | ||
| 1966 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC | ||
| 1967 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship | ||
| 1967 Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam | ||
| 1970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War | ||
| 1971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes | ||
| 1971 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history | ||
| 1977 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed | ||
| 1977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon | ||
| 1978 The body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found in the trunk of a car; he had been kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades terrorist group | ||
| 1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found | ||
| 1979 US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons | ||
| 1980 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge | ||
| 1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian | ||
| 1988 Australia's new parliment house is opened by Queen Elizabeth | ||
| 1989 Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press | ||
| 1993 Paraguay held its first presidential and parliamentary elections in nearly 50 years | ||
| 1996 President Yoweri Museveni won a landslide victory in Uganda's first presidential election in 16 years | ||
C.H. OSTFELD INC.