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Events from History on May 09

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
1754 : 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1766 : John Byron back in England after trip around the world
1785 : British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1788 : English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade
1836 : HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius
1837 : "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
1846 : Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
1862 : Battle of Farmington, MS
1862 : Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
1862 : US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
1864 : -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
1864 : Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)
1864 : Battle of Dalton, GA
1864 : Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1868 : Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres
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
1901 : Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2
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 : German & French fight Battle of Artois
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 : Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
1929 : NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates
1929 : WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
1932 : Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
1932 : WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
1933 : Spanish anarchists call for general strike
1934 : Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University!
1936 : 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
1936 : Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
1937 : Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
1939 : Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
1941 : English Army breaks German spy codes
1943 : 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
1943 : Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
1944 : 1st eye bank opens (NYC)
1944 : Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana
1944 : Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
1944 : Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness
1944 : Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
1945 : Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1945 : Jersey liberated from nazis
1945 : Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
1945 : New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier
1945 : Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested
1945 : Victory celebration at Red Square
1946 : 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
1946 : 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres
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 : French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
1950 : Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville
1951 : Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
1955 : German Federal Republic joins NATO
1959 : Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
1960 : Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1960 : US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1960 : US send U-2 over USSR
1961 : Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins
1961 : FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
1961 : Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings
1962 : Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
1962 : Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 : Khrushchev visits Egypt
1964 : Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"
1965 : Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
1965 : Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1966 : 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
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
1969 : BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick
1970 : 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1971 : 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton
1971 : Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
1971 : Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history
1974 : House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1975 : Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
1975 : Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead
1976 : "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1977 : Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1977 : Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
1977 : Patty Hearst let out of jail
1978 : "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 perfs
1978 : Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found
1978 : Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
1978 : Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in NYC
1978 : PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth
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
1982 : "9" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 739 performances
1982 : Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in NYC
1983 : 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson
1984 : Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000
1984 : Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8)
1987 : 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1987 : Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
1988 : A's winning streak hits 14, ends tommorow
1988 : Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
1988 : Belgium: 8th govt of Martens forms
1989 : "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
1989 : Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press
1989 : VP Quayle say in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it
1989 : is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"
1990 : NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
1991 : Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
1991 : Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
1992 : After trailing 9-0, St Louis Cards beat Atlanta Braves 12-11
1992 : America Cup finals begin in San Diego
1992 : Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
1992 : Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe
1993 : "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
1993 : "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1993 : Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
1993 : Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies," premieres in NYC
1993 : Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years
1994 : "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances
1994 : Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY
1995 : Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
1997 : 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
1998 : ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by
2002 : Daughter of Senior Congress Leader Mr. Natwar Sign - Rity Singh commits suicide
2002 : Indian Air Force aircraft Jagaur crashes
2002 : 2 LeT Militants killed in Delhi
2002 : 30 persons died while 140 injured when a bomb blasted in Victory Day Celebrations.

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