• May 09 2006

    19 Years ago

    Estonia ratifies the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.


  • May 09 2006

    19 Years ago

    George Preca is canonised as the first Malta saint in history.


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  • May 09 2004

    21 Years ago

    Chechnya president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a Very Important Person (person) stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.


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  • May 09 2002

    23 Years ago

    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 militants among them deported to several different countries.


  • May 09 2002

    23 Years ago

    In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.


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  • May 09 2001

    24 Years ago

    In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.


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  • May 09 1998

    27 Years ago

    Transsexual Israeli singer Dana International wins the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest


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  • May 09 1992

    33 Years ago

    Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.


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  • May 09 1988

    37 Years ago

    The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.


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  • May 09 1987

    38 Years ago

    A Poland LOT Ilyushin Il-62 "Tadeusz Kosciuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.


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  • May 09 1980

    45 Years ago

    In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses.


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  • May 09 1980

    45 Years ago

    In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to Norco shootout and one of the largest pursuits in History of California. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.


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  • May 09 1980

    45 Years ago

    The first meeting of Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in Ghana.


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  • May 09 1974

    51 Years ago

    Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President of the United States Richard Nixon.


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  • May 09 1970

    55 Years ago

    Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.


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  • May 09 1961

    64 Years ago

    Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit Grand slam (baseball)s in consecutive innings.


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  • May 09 1960

    65 Years ago

    The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication (medicine) for G. D. Searle & Company's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved combined oral contraceptive pill.


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  • May 09 1956

    69 Years ago

    First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.


  • May 09 1955

    70 Years ago

    Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.


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  • May 09 1955

    70 Years ago

    ''Sam and Friends'' debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and the Muppets.


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