History Events on May 09

The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.

#Food_and_Drug_Administration

Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.

#Robert_Schuman

England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.

#England

World War II: The German occupation of the Channel Islands comes to an end.

#German_occupation_of_the_Channel_Islands

World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.

#World_War_I

In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.

#Florida

World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.

#German_submarine_U-110_(1940)

Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.

#Cold_War

Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-?mig?y celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.

#Polish-Soviet_War

The first horsebus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.

#Horsebus

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.

#1877_Iquique_earthquake

In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.

#Ghana

World War II: The final German Instrument of Surrender is signed at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst.

#German_Instrument_of_Surrender

American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.

#American_Civil_War

Mihail Kog?lniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.

#Mihail_Kog?lniceanu

The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.

#Barisan_Nasional

An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.

#Airbus_A400M_Atlas

Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)

#Richard_E._Byrd

The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.

#Siege_of_Fort_Detroit

FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.

#Newton_N._Minow

Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.

#2015_Moscow_Victory_Day_Parade

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 terrorists among them deported to several different countries.

#Siege_of_the_Church_of_the_Nativity_in_Bethlehem

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

#Armenia

Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.

#Alfred_Hitchcock

Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.

#The_Holocaust

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.

#Victor_Emmanuel_III_of_Italy

A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.

#Sukhoi_Superjet_100

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

#Vietnam_War

Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.

#Hernando_de_Alarcón

Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.

#Lincoln_Cathedral

Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.

#Czechoslovakia

Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.

#Rainier_III,_Prince_of_Monaco

The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).

#GWR_3700_Class_3440_City_of_Truro

Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.

#Norman_conquest_of_southern_Italy

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

#Watergate_scandal

Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.

#Parliament_of_Australia

The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.

#Gabriele_D'Annunzio

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

#Norco,_California

Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.

#Persian_Jews

Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.

#Ethiopian_Empire

The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.

#Punch_and_Judy

Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.

#Panic_of_1873

Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

#Thomas_Blood

World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.

#World_War_II

Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.

#Second_Schleswig_War

At the height of the 2018 East Africa floods, the Patel dam breaks in Solai, Kenya, killing 48 people and displacing another 2000.

Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.

LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.

Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.

Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.

Ngô ?ình C?n, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngô ?ình Di?m before the family's toppling, is executed.

World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.

American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.

Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.

'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.

Ninth Crusade, Edward I of England disembarks at Acre.