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 This Day In History.

May   9
1997--  1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam

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

1977--  Patty Hearst let out of jail

1967--  1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship

1966--  China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1965--  Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)

1963--  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1962--  US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1962--  Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time

1960--  US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally

1960--  US send U-2 over USSR

1955--  German Federal Republic joins NATO

1951--  Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River

1946--  1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres

1945--  Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)

1945--  Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested

1945--  Jersey liberated from nazis

1944--  1st eye bank opens (NYC)

1944--  Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol

1943--  5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia

1941--  English Army breaks German spy codes

1914--  Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day

1899--  Lawn mower patented

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

1882--  Telegraph Hill RR Co organized

1864--  Battle of Dalton, GA

1864--  Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)

1864--  -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia

1862--  US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI

1862--  Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS

1862--  Battle of Farmington, MS

1846--  Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande

1837--  "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies

1754--  1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"

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

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