Historical Events on May 9

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• 328 Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria
• 1092 Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
• 1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England (oldest diplomatic alliance in the world still in force)
• 1450 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated
• 1460 Courtyard of the episcopal palace in Atrecht (akak Arras) has witch burnings

• 1519 Austrian adel and burgerij in uprising against central government
• 1573 Polish Parliament selects Duke of Anjou as king
• 1588 Duke Henri de Guise's troops occupy Paris
• 1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
• 1689 English King William III declares war on France
• 1726 Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn
• 1738 Britain sends fleet to the 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 British parliament accepts abolition of slave trade
• 1793 Explorer Alexander Mackenzie sets out on his second expedition to the Pacific from Fort Fork (arrives at Pacific 22nd July)

• 1837 "Sherrod" burns in the Mississippi River below Natchez, Mississippi; 175 die
• 1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
• 1862 Battle of Farmington, Mississippi
• 1862 Battle of Fort Pickens, Florida, Pensacola evacuated by Confederates
• 1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island
• 1864 -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
• 1864 Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, Virginia (Drewery's Bluff, Fort Darling)
• 1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark

• 1868 Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres
• 1868 The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded
• 1873 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression
• 1874 London's Victoria Embankment opens
• 1874 The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, plying two routes
• 1877 Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day becomes the Independence Day of Romania.
• 1882 Telegraph Hill RR Co (Cable Cars) in San Francisco organized
• 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London
• 1889 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34.50
• 1896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
• 1899 John Burr patents an improved rotary blade lawn mower in the US


• 1901 Cleveland's Earl Moore no-hits Chicago White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2

• 1901 A financial panic begins in the USA following the struggle between two groups to control the railroads between the Great Lakes and the Pacific
• 1904 The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100mph.
• 1908 Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
• 1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1914 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4

• 1914 J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
• 1915 German & French fight Battle of Artois
• 1916 British-France Sykes-Picot conference over division of Turkey

• 1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem, laid

• 1927 52nd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6
• 1927 Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia, and the Australian Parliament convenes there for the first time.
• 1929 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
• 1930 55th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6

• 1931 56th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59
• 1932 57th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8
• 1932 Piccadilly Circus, London, first lit by electricity
• 1932 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
• 1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike

• 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)

• 1942 67th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57
• 1943 5th German Panzer army surrenders in Tunisia
• 1943 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
• 1944 1st eye bank opens in New York
• 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 (National Day)
• 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
• 1945 World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana.

• 1945 World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day
• 1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British
• 1946 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
• 1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by his son Umberto II
• 1949 Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway, London
• 1949 Prince Rainier III becomes monarch of Monaco
• 1950 French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
• 1950 Norman Dello Joio's opera, The Triumph of St. Joan, premieres in Bronxville, New York
• 1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
• 1955 German Federal Republic (West Germany) joins NATO
• 1956 First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.

• 1958 Russian Mikhail Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship

• 1960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
• 1960 US becomes the first country to legalize the birth control pill
• 1961 Baltimore Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minnesota 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 The Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Parlophone
• 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 Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"
• 1965 The 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 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
• 1969 Following his release from prison Ian Paisley, North Ireland Loyalist holds a 'victory' meeting
• 1971 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton win
• 1971 Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)
• 1971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
• 1971 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history

• 1974 US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
• 1975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
• 1976 "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 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 performances

• 1978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
• 1979 Iranian-Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is the 1st Jew executed by the Islamic government firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran
• 1980 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
• 1980 Slasher horror film "Friday the 13th" is released in US cinemas
• 1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian
• 1982 Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine" premieres in NYC
• 1982 Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic

• 1984 Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 innings (started 5/8)
• 1986 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Montreal Canadians beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1
• 1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw

• 1987 32nd Eurovision Song Contest: Johnny Logan for Ireland wins singing "Hold Me Now" in Brussels

• 1988 Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms
• 1989 "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
• 1989 Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press


• 1989 NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
• 1989 NY Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher
• 1989 VP Quayle says in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it 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
• 1990 Sampdoria of Italy win 30th European Cup Winner's Cup against Anderlecht of Belgium 2-0 in Gothenburg
• 1990 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Boston Bruins beat Washington Capitals, 4 games to 0
• 1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession (conviction overturned 2006)
• 1991 Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
• 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
• 1992 Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War
• 1992 Salem Village Witchcraft Victims' Memorial dedicated in Danvers (formally Salem Village) to mark 300 year anniversary of trials
• 1992 37th Eurovision Song Contest: Linda Martin for Ireland wins singing "Why Me" in Malmo
• 1993 "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
• 1993 "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 performances
• 1993 Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
• 1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
• 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 Rifkin found guilty in New York
• 1995 Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
• 1995 Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus

• 1997 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
• 1997 San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones
• 1998 43rd Eurovision Song Contest: Dana International for Israel wins singing "Diva" in Birmingham
• 1999 45th British Academy Television Awards: "Father Ted" Best Comedy, "The Cops" Best Drama
• 2001 Accra Sports Stadium Disaster: 129 Ghanian football fans die in a stampede caused by the firing of teargas by police following a decision by the referee in a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko
• 2002 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported
• 2002 In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130
• 2004 Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya

• 2006 Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
• 2006 George Preca is canonized as the first Maltese saint in history
• 2009 Jacob Zuma is sworn in as President of South Africa
• 2010 Oakland A's Dallas Braden becomes 19th pitcher to throw a perfect game (4-0 vs Tampa Bay)
• 2012 Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars
• 2012 A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board

• 2013 Everton Manager David Moyes is announced as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor at Manchester United (he only lasts 10 months)
• 2015 A gun fight erupts in Macedonian town of Kumanovo between police and Albanian separatists adding to the government crisis
• 2016 Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippine presidential election, promising war on drug trade and killing of criminals

• 2017 Moon Jae-in elected President of South Korea after a snap election to replace Park Geun-hye
• 2017 Fossil of Chinese feathered baby dinosaur formally identified as Beibeilong sinensis (baby dragon in Chinese)
• 2017 Jakarta’s Christian governor Ahok jailed for 2 years for blasphemy

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