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Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 02:55:36 -0500
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Saturday, May 09, 2009
Only 236 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Childhood Depression Awareness Day
On The Way To Today... May 9th
1386 - England and Portugal signed the Treaty of Windsor, pledging
permanent alliance and friendship.
1502 - Christopher Columbus set out from Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth
and last voyage.
1671 - Thomas Blood, Irish adventurer better known as Captain Blood,
stole the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
1754 - The first published political cartoons in the American colonies
appeared in The Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper founded by Benjamin
Franklin. Many of the early cartoons did not have the element of
satire so common in today's political cartoons.
1785 - British inventor Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle.
1825 - The first gaslit theatre in America opened. It was the Chatham
Theatre in New York City.
1846 - Zachary Taylor with 1,700 U.S. troops beat back 5,700 Mexicans
under Arista at the battle of Resaca de la Palma and went on to
recover Fort Texas in the U.S.-Mexican Wars.
1901 - Australia opened its first parliament in Melbourne.
1915 - In World War I, the battle of Artois began. When the battle
ended on May 27, 216,000 men had been killed or wounded.
1926 - Americans Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first to
fly over the North Pole.
1927 - The new city of Canberra replaced Melbourne as Australia's
capital.
1936 - Italy formally annexed Abyssinia, now Ethiopia.
1937 - Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy started their own radio show
program. W.C. Fields, Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour were a few of the
stars that helped Bergen and the little blockhead, McCarthy, jump to
1945 - The unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allied forces
began, which virtually ended World War II. The surrender document was
signed the day before, in what became known as the Victory in Europe
(V-E) Day. A separate German surrender to the USSR was signed near
Berlin, Germany, and also came into effect on May 9th.
1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicated and the monarchy
was replaced by a republic.
1950 - French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed the creation of
a supranational European federation to strengthen the European
economies. "The Schuman Declaration," as it became known, would
eventually lead to the creation of the European Economic Community,
now the European Union.
1960 - The United States became the first country to legalize the
birth control pill.
1961 - In a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters,
Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow condemned TV
programming as "a vast wasteland."
1962 - The Beatles inked their first recording contract. George Martin
Parlophone.
milestone put Louis Armstrong on the "Billboard" music chart in the
top spot for the first time in his 41-year music career. Later,
1965 - Vladimir Horowitz played his first public concert in 12 years
at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The audience applauded the piano
virtuoso with a standing ovation that lasted for 30 minutes.
1965 - Lunar 5, an unmanned Soviet spacecraft, was launched toward the
moon from a rocket already in Earth's orbit. It later crashed on the
moon rather than making the projected soft landing.
1967 - Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, was indicted on this date
by a Federal grand jury for refusing to be inducted into the Army. The
World Boxing Association took away his title as World Heavyweight
Champion, and all published records of his title were deleted.
1979 - 18 people were killed when troops opened fire on terrorists
occupying San Salvador cathedral in El Salvador.
1980 - Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury met for the
first time in Ghana.
1987 - 183 people were killed when a New York-bound Polish jetliner
crashed while attempting an emergency return to Warsaw.
1993 - Paraguay held its first presidential and parliamentary
elections for nearly 50 years.
1995 - World leaders marked the 50th anniversary of the end of World
War II in Europe with three days of emotional Victory Day celebrations
and ringing calls for global reconciliation.
1996 - President Yoweri Museveni won a landslide victory in Uganda's
first presidential election in 16 years.
1999 - "The Mummy" took advantage of a pre-"Star Wars" box office
drought to wrap up the year's biggest opening weekend with $44.6
million. The cat-burglar caper "Entrapment" slipped to second with
$12.2 million and the cyberspace adventure, "The Matrix", placed third
with $6 million, estimates showed.
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