1901<\/strong> – In Australia, the Duke of Cornwall and York declared the First Commonwealth Parliament open.<\/p>\n 1904<\/strong> – The Great Western Railway Number 3440 City of Truro became the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 miles per hour.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – German and French forces fought the Battle of Artois.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – A starting gate was used to start a Triple Crown race for the first time.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong> – Fascist Italy took Addis Abba and annexed Ethiopia.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong> – The first sheet of postage stamps of more than one variety went on sale in New York City.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – Vivien Leigh debuted in America on stage in “Romeo and Juliet” with Lawrence Olivier.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – The German submarine U-110 was captured at sea by Britain’s Royal Navy.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – U.S. officials announced that the midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicated and was replaced by Umberto.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – West Germany joined NATO.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – Richard Burton made his network television debut in the presentation of “Wuthering Heights” on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – Jim Gentile (Baltimore Orioles) set a major league baseball record when he hit a grand slam home run in two consecutive innings. The game was against the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – A laser beam was successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – The House Judiciary Committee began formal hearings on the Nixon impeachment.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – The bullet-riddled body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in the center of Rome. The Red Brigades had abducted him.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. 35 motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers were married.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa’s first black president.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR,\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – In Bethlehem, West Bank, a deal was reached that would end the 38-day standoff at the Church of the Nativity. Thirteen suspected militants were to be deported to several different countries. The standoff had begun on April 2, 2002.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – In Kaspiisk, Russia, 39 people were killed and at least 130 were injured when a remote-controlled bomb exploded during a holiday parade.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – In Bahrain, people were allowed to vote for representatives for the first time in nearly 30 years. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in the country’s history.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0Sukhoi Superjet 100\u00a0aircraft\u00a0crashes\u00a0into\u00a0Mount Salak\u00a0in\u00a0West Java,\u00a0Indonesia, killing 45 people.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An\u00a0Airbus A400M Atlas\u00a0military transport aircraft\u00a0crashes\u00a0near the Spanish city of\u00a0Seville\u00a0with three people on board killed.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Russia stages its\u00a0biggest ever military parade\u00a0in Moscow’s\u00a0Red Square\u00a0to commemorate the 70th anniversary of\u00a0Victory Day.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The historic defeat for\u00a0Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country’s independence in 1957 in\u00a0Malaysian General Election, 2018.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong> \u2013 At the height of the\u00a02018 East Africa floods, the\u00a0Patel dam breaks\u00a0in\u00a0Solai,\u00a0Kenya, killing 48 people and displacing another 2000.<\/p>\n History of 9 May 1901 – In Australia, the Duke of Cornwall and York declared the First Commonwealth Parliament open. 1904 – The Great Western Railway Number 3440 City of Truro became the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 miles per hour. 1915 – German and French forces fought the Battle of Artois. 1926 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[724,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-9-may","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1cT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24180,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/24180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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