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lunes, 9 de mayo de 2011

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On This Day: May 9

On May 9, 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
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On May 9, 1874, Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who discovered the Egyptian tomb of King Tutankhamen, was born. Following his death on March 2, 1939, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1502Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
1913The 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was ratified.
1926Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett made what they claimed was the first airplane flight over the North Pole. (Evidence suggests they may have missed their target by 150 miles.)
1936Italy annexed Ethiopia.
1961Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned TV programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
1974The House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
1974A concert in Cambridge, Mass., prompted rock critic Jon Landau to write, "I saw rock and roll future and it's name is Bruce Springsteen."
1978The bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.
1994South Africa's newly-elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
1994Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, was placed under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus.
2004Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov and 23 other people were killed in a bombing in the capital Grozny.
2010Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history, leading the Oakland Athletics in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
2010Singer Lena Horne died at age 92.

Current Birthdays

Rosario Dawson, Actress
Actress Rosario Dawson turns 32 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
Mike D’Antoni, Basketball coach
New York Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni turns 60 years old today.
AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek
1918Mike Wallace, Broadcast journalist ("60 Minutes"), turns 93
1936Albert Finney, Actor, turns 75
1936Glenda Jackson, Actress, turns 75
1937James L. Brooks, Director, turns 74
1942John Aschroft, Former attorney general, turns 69
1946Candice Bergen, Actress ("Murphy Brown"), turns 65
1948Calvin Murphy, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 63
1949Billy Joel, Rock singer, musician, turns 62
1950Tom Petersson, Rock singer, musician (Cheap Trick), turns 61
1951Alley Mills, Actress ("The Wonder Years"), turns 60
1960Tony Gwynn, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 51
1970Ghostface Killah, Rapper (Wu-Tang Clan), turns 41
1979Brandon Webb, Baseball player, turns 32
1982Rachel Boston, Actress ("American Dreams"), turns 29
1984Prince Fielder, Baseball player, turns 27
1985Audrina Patridge, TV personality ("The Hills"), turns 26

Historic Birthdays

59John Brown 5/9/1800 - 12/2/1859
American abolitionist; led raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859
56Belle Boyd 5/9/1844 - 6/11/1900
American actress and Confederate spy during the Civil War
67Carl Gustaf Laval 5/9/1845 - 2/2/1913
Swedish scientist, engineer and inventor
77Sir James Barrie 5/9/1860 - 6/19/1937
Scottish dramatist and novelist; wrote "Peter Pan"
63Lilian Mary Baylis 5/9/1874 - 11/25/1937
English theatrical manager
85Henry J. Kaiser 5/9/1882 - 8/24/1967
American industrialist; built dams, bridges and ships
72Jose Ortega y Gasset 5/9/1883 - 10/18/1955
Spanish philosopher and humanist
76William du Bois 5/9/1916 - 2/5/1993
American author and illustrator of children's books
67Pancho Gonzales 5/9/1928 - 7/3/1995
American tennis player; U.S. Open single's champion 8 times between 1953 and 1961

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