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On this Day ~ May 9th

1386
Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England

1502
Columbus departed Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World

1689
English King William III declares war on France

1740
Italian composer, Giovanni Paisiello was born (Barber of Seville)

1868
The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.

1874
Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who discovered the Egyptian tomb of King Tutankhamen, was born.

1882
Telegraph Hill RR Company organized

1896
1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)

1914
President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day

1918
American journalist Mike Wallace, is born

1932
Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity

1946
American actress Candice Bergen, is born

1955
Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.

1960
The Food and Drug Administration approved use of a birth control pill.

1965
Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert

1970
100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War

1978
The body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is found, riddled by bullets, in the back of a car in the center of historic Rome.

1979
US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons

1979
Northwestern University student John Harris opens a cigar box left sitting on a table in the Technological Institute. The resulting blast only manages to inflict minor lacerations and burns. It is later determined to be the second explosive device fabricated by the Unabomber.

1993
Pope John Paul II retracts the Catholic Church's condemnation of astronomer Galileo Galilei, issued in 1633 by Pope Urban VIII. The Church had convicted the scientist of heresy, sentenced him to house arrest, and forced him to recant central scientific truths.

1994
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

2004
Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov and 23 other people were killed when a bomb destroyed the VIP section at a stadium during a Victory Day celebration