History for May 9
History for May 9 - On-This-Day.com
- 1671 - Thomas "Captain" Blood stole the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
- 1754 - The first newspaper cartoon in America showed a divided snake "Join or die" in "The Pennsylvania Gazette."
- 1785 - Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle.
- 1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.
- 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
- 1978 - 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.
- 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.
- 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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