05-09-2009, 05:37 AM
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May 9th
1874 ~ Birthday of Howard Carter, British archaeologist.
1901 ~ Australia opened its first parliament in Melbourne.
1903 ~ Death of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter.
1931 ~ Death of Albert Michelson, Physicist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1949 ~ Birthday of Billy Joel, American musician.
1961 ~ Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles became the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
1972 ~ Israeli commandos liberated a hijacked Sabena airliner at Lod airport in Tel Aviv.
1974 ~ The U.S. Congress’s House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
1986 ~ Death of Tenzing Norgay, Mountaineer.
1994 ~ Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
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