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May 9 in History
Historical Events on May 9
1092
Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1386
England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
1450
'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1540
Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
1662
The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
1671
Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1726
Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1763
The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
1864
Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1865
American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
1865
American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
1873
Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874
The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
1877
Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1887
Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1901
Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1904
The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1911
The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
1915
World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1918
World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1920
Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
1926
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
1936
Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1940
World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1941
World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942
Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
1945
World War II: The final German Instrument of Surrender is signed at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst.
1945
World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1946
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
1948
Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
1949
Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950
Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1955
Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1958
Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
1960
The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1961
FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
1964
Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngô Đình Diệm before the family's toppling, is executed.
1969
Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1970
Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974
Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1977
Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
1979
Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
1980
In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980
In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987
LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
1992
Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1992
Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
2001
In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002
The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2012
A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
2015
An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
2015
Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
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