Wednesday, May 09, 2018

History for May 9

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History for May 9 - On-This-Day.com:
John Brown 1800, Sir James Barrie 1860, Howard Carter 1873
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 Henry J. Kaiser 1882, Mike Wallace 1918 - Broadcast journalist ("60 Minutes"), Billy Joel 1949 - Musician
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 1671 - Thomas "Captain" Blood stole the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
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 1754 - The first newspaper cartoon in America showed a divided snake "Join or die" in "The Pennsylvania Gazette."
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 1936 - Fascist Italy took Addis Abba and annexed Ethiopia.
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 1941 - The German submarine U-110 was captured at sea by Britain's Royal navy.
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 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
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 1980 - 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.
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 1987 - Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers were married.
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 1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.
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