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1079May 9Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, was murdered.
1265May 9Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Comedy), was born.
1429May 9Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans.
1443May 9Niccolo d’Albergati, Italian cardinal, died.
1460May 9In the Netherlands the courtyard Episcopal palace at Atrecht had witch burnings.
1474May 9Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight, land guardian, was beheaded.
1502May 9Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere. He explored Central America, and discovered St. Lucia, the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Columbus left 52 Jewish families in Costa Rica.
1588May 9Duke Henri de Guise’s troops occupied Paris.
1657May 9William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), died.
1667May 9Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48), died.
1671May 9Colonel Thomas Blood (1618-1680), Irish adventurer, attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1707May 9Dietrich Buxtehude (~69), German organist, composer, died.
1738May 9John Pindar, [Peter], physician, poet, was born.
1740May 9Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville), was born.
1745May 9Tomaso Antonio Vitali (82), composer, died.
1753May 9King Louis XV disbanded the French parliament.
1754May 9The first American newspaper cartoon was published. The illustration in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, “Join or die.”
1783May 9Alexander Ross, pioneer, fur trader, was born in Canada.
1785May 9James Pollard Espy, meteorologist (Philosophy of Storms), was born in Pennsylvania.
1791May 9Francis Hopkinson (53), US writer, music, lawyer, died.
1800May 9John Brown, American abolitionist, was born. His adventures came to an end at Harper’s Ferry, where he tried to start a revolution against slavery.
1805May 9Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (45), poet, playwright, died in Weimar.
1810May 9Louis Gallait, historical painter, was born.
1813May 9U.S. troops under William Henry Harrison rescued Fort Meigs from British and Canadian troops.
1836May 9HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departed Port Louis, Mauritius.
1837May 9“Sherrod” burned in Mississippi River below Natchez, Miss., and 175 died.
1843May 9Belle Boyd, Confederate spy, was born. She helped ‘Stonewall’ Jackson during his Valley campaign.
1846May 9US forced Mexico back to Rio Grande in the Battle of Resaca de la Palma.
1859May 9Threatened by the advancing French army, the Austrian army retreated across the River Sesia in Italy.
1860May 9James Matthew Barrie (d.1937), novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan), was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland.
1861May 9The Banshee, a British ship designed to run the American blockade on Confederate ports, departed Nassau for Wilmington, NC, on the first of many successful runs directed by Thomas E. Taylor, a shipping clerk for the Anglo-Confederate Trading Company.
1862May 9Battle of Ft. Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CSA.
1864May 9Union General John Sedgwick was shot and killed by a confederate sharpshooter during fighting at Spotsylvania, Va. His last words before getting hit were ” From this distance they couldn’t hit an elephant.”
1865May 9William Smith (1797-1887) was forced out of office as governor of Virginia following the Confederate surrender.
1868May 9Anton Bruckner’s 1st Symphony in C premiered.
1873May 9Howard Carter, discoverer of King Tutankhamen’s tomb, was born.
1880May 9Johann Hermann Berens (54), composer, died.
1882May 9Henry J. Kaiser, builder of Liberty Ships for U.S. war effort, was born.
1883May 9Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset was born in Madrid.
1885May 9In the Battle of Batoche, Saskatchewan, Metis rebels ran out of ammunition and resorted to firing pebbles from their guns, until they were forced to retreat.
1896May 9The 1st horseless carriage show in London featured 10 models.
1899May 9A lawn mower was patented.
1907May 9Baldur von Schirach, German writer, Nazi Youth leader, convicted war criminal, was born.
   
1908May 9Dirk Fock became governor of Suriname.
1909May 9In San Francisco 135 delegates of the anti-Japanese Laundry League took steps at a convention at Golden Gate Hall, 222 Van Ness Ave., to boycott all Japanese enterprises on the Pacific Coast.
1913May 9The 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the election of US senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures, was ratified. [see May 31]
1914May 9Pres. Wilson proclaimed Mother’s Day.
1915May 9German and French forces fought the Battle of Artois.
1918May 9Mike Wallace, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes), was born in Brookline, Mass.
1919May 9Arthur English, comedian, actor (Malachi’s Cove), was born.
1921May 9The play “Sei Personaggi in Cerca d’Autore” (Six Characters in Search of an Author) by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) premiered in Rome.
1925May 9Cornerstone for Hebrew University in Jerusalem was laid. It was founded in Jerusalem in part by Aharon and Yocheved Shulov.
1926May 9Joseph Malaby Dent (b.1849), British bookbinder turned publisher, died. He began Everyman’s Library in 1906, a collection of low cost classic books. Random House and Knopf debuted a revived line in 1991.
1932May 9Piccadilly Circus was lit by electricity.
1933May 9Spanish anarchists called for a general strike.
1934May 9Alan Bennett, playwright, actor (Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, Beyond the Fringe), was born in England.
1936May 9Glenda Jackson, actress (Women in Love), was born in Cheshire, England.
1940May 9James L. Brooks, producer, director (Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic), was born.
1941May 9The German submarine U-110 was captured at sea by the Royal Navy, revealing considerable Enigma material. Enigma was the German machine used to encrypt messages during World War II.
1942May 9John Ashcroft, later Missouri governor (1984-1992) senator (1995-2000) and US Attorney Gen’l (2001-2004), was born in Chicago, Ill.
1943May 9The 5th German Panzer army surrendered in Tunisia.
1944May 9Russians recaptured Crimea by taking Sevastopol.
1945May 9U.S. officials announced that the midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.
1946May 9King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicated and was replaced by his son, Umberto II. He served until a June referendum abolished the monarchy.
1949May 9Billy Joel, Bronx, rock vocalist (Piano man, Capt Jack, Bridge), was born.
1951May 9The U.S. Far East Air Force launched a strike on Sinuiju, North Korea, on the Yalu River.
1957May 9Ezio F. Pinza, Italian bass (La Scala of Milan, NY Met Opera, Broadway musicals), died.
1958May 9The film “Vertigo” with James Stewart and Kim Novak was released. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and had been shot in the SF Bay Area. “Vertigo” premiered in San Francisco.
1960May 9US sent a U-2 over USSR.
1961May 9In a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned television programming as a “vast wasteland.”
   
1962May 9A laser beam was successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.
1964May 9Khrushchev visited Egypt.
1967May 9Marine Sgt. James Neil Tycz (22) and three other US servicemen were killed on Hill 665 near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, close to the Laos border. In 2005 three of the men were buried at Arlington National Cemetery on the 38th anniversary of their deaths.
1970May 9Walter Reuther (1907-1970) died in a plane crash. He was a die maker who pioneered the establishment of the United Automobile Workers union and served as the UAW president from 1946 for 24 years.
1971May 9Friends of Earth returned 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes. Friends of Earth became an international network this year with a meeting of representatives from the US, Sweden, the UK and France.
1974May 9The House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Nixon.
1976May 9Harvey Fite, professor of art at Bard College, died in Saugerties, NY, while working on his multi-acre Opus 40 landscape sculpture. In 2010 the 37-year project was listed for sale for $3.5 million.
1977May 9Pink Floyd opened a 2-night stand at the Oakland Coliseum.
1978May 9“Ain’t Misbehavin'” opened at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 performances.
1980May 9In Florida 35 motorists were killed when a Liberian-flagged freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay. The freighter MV Summit Venture collided with a pier (support column) during a blinding thunderstorm, sending over 1200 feet (366m) of the bridge plummeting into Tampa Bay. The collision caused six cars, a truck, and a Greyhound bus to fall 150 feet (46 m) into the water.
1981May 9Nelson Algren (72), US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), died.
1982May 9The musical “Nine,” inspired by Federico Fellini’s film “Eight and a-Half,” opened on Broadway.
1984May 9In San Francisco a 5-alarm fire engulfed Piers 30 and 32 along the Embarcadero at the foot of Bryant Street. Damages were estimated at $2.5 million.
1985May 9Laurent Fabius, head of the French Socialist government, blocked the sale of an AIDS virus detection test made by Abbott Laboratories. Fabius and others were later charged with criminal negligence and manslaughter in the deaths of hundreds who died from transfusions of tainted blood. In 1999 Fabius and Georgina Dufoix were cleared of the charges. Edmond Herve, the health minister under Dufoix, was convicted of negligence in 2 cases.
1986May 9Tenzing Norgay (b.1914), Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), died.
1987May 9All 183 people aboard a Polish jetliner were killed when the plane, bound for New York, crashed and burned in Warsaw after the pilot attempted an emergency return.
1988May 9Education Secretary William J. Bennett announced he would leave his position in mid-September.
1989May 9President Bush complained that Panama’s elections were marred by “massive irregularities,” and he called for worldwide pressure on General Manuel Antonio Noriega to step down as military leader.
1990May 9President Bush and congressional leaders announced plans for emergency budget talks, with tax increases and spending cuts on the negotiating table.
1991May 9President Bush met at the White House with UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who relayed Iraq’s rejection of a US-backed proposal for a UN civilian force in northern Iraq.
   
1992May 9Final episode of “Golden Girls” aired on NBC-TV.
1993May 9The White House said President Clinton had directed Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher to contact U.S. allies to discuss how they could ensure Serbia’s promise to cut supplies to the Bosnian Serbs.
1994May 9“Passion” opened at Plymouth Theater in NYC for 280 performances.
1995May 9President Clinton arrived in Moscow for a summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin
1996May 9In dramatic video testimony to a hushed courtroom in Little Rock, Ark., President Clinton insisted he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan at the heart of the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.
1997May 9During a visit to a rain forest in Costa Rica, President Clinton urged nations not to sacrifice their environment in pursuit of economic gain.
1998May 9In Britain the Israeli transsexual, Dana International (Yaron Cohen), won the annual Eurovision Song Prize with the song “Diva.”
1999May 9On Oahu, Hawaii, a landslide at Sacred Falls State Park killed 8 people and injured dozens.
2000May 9Senator John McCain endorsed Texas Governor George W. Bush for president.
2001May 9Pres. Bush told Pres. Kostunica of Yugoslavia that aid would depend on cooperation with the Balkan war crimes tribunal.
2002May 9Veteran Mexican musician Juan Gabriel won four awards, including top songwriter, at the Billboard Latin Music Awards held in Miami Beach, Florida.
2003May 9The US and its allies asked the UN Security Council to legitimize their occupation of Iraq and sought permission to use revenue from the world’s second-largest oil reserves to rebuild the war-battered country.
2004May 9Alan King, comedian, died in NYC. King was born in Brooklyn as Irwin Alan Kniberg. His books included “Is Salami and Eggs Better than Sex?” (1985).
2005May 9Actress Renee Zellweger married country music star Kenny Chesney on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands. The marriage was annulled just months later.
2006May 9The United States bowed to pressure from its allies and agreed to support a new program to temporarily funnel additional aid directly to the Palestinian people.
2007May 9The NY Times reported on its Web site that Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson are paying doctors hundreds of millions of dollars every year in return for prescribing anemia drugs which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses.
2008May 9Dominica legislators balked at deciding who can marry whom. Chief Charles Williams, the leader of the last remaining pre-Columbian tribe in the eastern Caribbean, recently suggested outlawing marriage to outsiders to save a dwindling indigenous population.
2009May 9Chuck Daly (b.1930), NBA basketball coach, died in Florida. He coached the Dream Team to the Olympic gold medal in 1992 after winning back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons.
   
2010May 9US Attorney General Eric Holder said Washington had evidence that Pakistani Taliban were behind a failed car bomb attack in the heart of New York City.
2011May 9Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver announced their separation, cleaving a sometimes-turbulent 25-year relationship. On May 17 Schwarzenegger acknowledged that he had fathered a child with a member of his household staff over a decade ago.
2012May 9President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage and boosted the hopes of gay rights groups around the world. Opponents denounced his switch as a shameless appeal for votes.
2013May 9In Ohio an amber alert was issued for Blain (14) and Blake Romes (17) of Ottawa. Michael Fay (17) told authorities where the bodies of the two brothers could be found. Murder charges against Fay were announced on May 17.
   
 Source: Timelines of History

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