1914<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – H.P. Whitney’s Regret became the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – The U.S. Navy’s first transatlantic flight took off with three Curtiss NC flying boats.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – Sweden abolished capital punishment.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – Clay Puett’s electric starting gate was used for the first time.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Harry Truman\u00a0announced that World War II had ended in Europe.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – Parry O’Brien became the first to toss a shot put over 60 feet. O’Brien achieved a distance of 60 feet 5 1\/4 inches.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of “Mad Magazine” for the first time.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Eisenhower\u00a0ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Mike and Marian Ilitch founded “Little Caesars Pizza Treat”.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union resumed.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – New Yorkers selected a new name for their new\u00a0National League\u00a0baseball franchise. They chose the\u00a0Mets.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City’s Wall Street.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – The Soviet Union announced that they would not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Joanie (Erin Moran) and Chachi (Scott Baio) got married on ABC-TV’s “Happy Days.”<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – “New Coke” was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Larry King received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – A pipe burst leaving a million residents without water in Malaysia’s capital area. This added to four days of shortages that 2 million already faced.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The first female cadet graduated from The Citadel military college.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a02019 South African general election\u00a0is held.<\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n History of 8 May 1914 – The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. 1915 – H.P. 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