May 9......

May 9 is the 129th (130th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Families "I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week." — Mario Cuomo

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Absurdity "How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshippers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?" — Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of The 700 Club.

Thought for the day: "Honi soit qui mal y pense. (Shamed be he who thinks evil of it.)"

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

● 328 - Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.

● 1092 - Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.

● 1386 - Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England

● 1429 - Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans.

● 1432 - Charges of witchcraft dismissed against Margery Jourdemain, John Virley, and John Ashwell, in England. They're executed for littering instead.

● 1450 - 'Abd al-Latif Mirza (Timurid monarch) assassinated.

● 1460 - Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings

● 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the "New World".

● 1519 - Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government

● 1573 - Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king

● 1588 - Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris France

● 1619 - In Holland, the six month long Synod of Dort ended. Confirming the authority of the "Heidelberg Catechism," the decisions of the Synod led to some 200 Arminian clergy being afterward deprived of their offices.

● 1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

● 1689 - English King William III declares war on France

● 1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.

● 1738 - England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies

● 1753 - King Louis XV disbands French parliament

● 1766 - John Byron back in England after trip around the world

● 1785 - Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles

● 1788 - English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

● 1800 - Birth of abolitionist John Brown. Torrington, Conn.

● 1828 - Birth of Andrew Murray, South African Dutch Reformed clergyman and devotional writer. His most famous writing was "Abide in Christ" (1864).

● 1836 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius

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

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

● 1862 - Battle of Farmington MS

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

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

● 1864 - Battle of Cloyd's Mount & Swift Creek VA (Drewery's Bluff, Fort Darling)

● 1864 - Battle of Dalton GA

● 1864 - Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark

● 1864 - Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church VA

● 1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.

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

● 1874 - The first horse-drawn omnibus made its début in the city of Mumbai, plying on two routes.

● 1897 - U.S. cruiser ordered to Honduras to protect "U.S. interests."

● 1899 - Lawn mower patented

● 1901 - In Australia, the Duke of Cornwall and York declared the First Commonwealth Parliament open.

● 1905 - Birth of Merrill Dunlop, American sacred chorister and hymnwriter. He directed the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle for many years, and is author of the hymn, "My Sins Are Blotted Out, I Know."

● 1908 - Dirk Fock becomes Governor of Suriname

● 1913 - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote

● 1914 - President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day

● 1915 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.

● 1916 - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey

● 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrated their capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.

● 1921 - Radical priest and anti-war activist Daniel Berrigan is born.

● 1925 - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid

● 1926 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).

● 1927 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.

● 1933 - Spanish anarchists call for general strike

● 1933 - First Nazi-inspired mass public book-burning, Germany.

● 1934 - West Coast longshoremen (ILA) go out on strike to gain control of hiring.

● 1936 - The first sheet of postage stamps of more than one variety went on sale in New York City.

● 1936 - Troops attack workers on general strike in Saloniki, Greece, killing 25, wounding 200.

● 1936 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.

● 1939 - Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha

● 1940 - World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.

● 1941 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.

● 1942 - World War II: Belgrade becomes the first Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its Jewish population, largely with the help of Serbian collaborators.

● 1942 - Holocaust: German SS murder 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The victims were shot with machine gun in ravine on the order from Gebietskomissar Eggers and Chief of Gendarmerie Busse.

● 1943 - 5th German Panser army surrenders in Tunisia

● 1943 - Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens

● 1944 - Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana

● 1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested

● 1944 - Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol

● 1945 - Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested

● 1945 - Norwegian Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling arrested

● 1945 - Victory celebration at Red Square

● 1945 - World War II: The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

● 1945 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.

● 1945 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling is arrested in Norway.

● 1945 - World War II: Red Army enters Prague (capitulation of Nazi occupation troops).

● 1945 - World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day.

● 1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British.

● 1945 - U.S. officials announced that the midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.

● 1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.

● 1949 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.

● 1950 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, 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.

● 1951 - Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River

● 1955 - West Germany accepted into NATO; West Germany formally joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at a special ceremony in Paris.

● 1956 - Mystery of missing frogman deepens; Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden refuses to give details about the disappearance of a naval diver during a goodwill visit by the Soviet leadership.

● 1956 - First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.

● 1960 - Nigeria becomes a member of the British Commonwealth

● 1960 - US send U-2 over USSR

● 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves sale of the birth control pill.

● 1961 - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow decries television as a "vast wasteland."

● 1961 - English apologist C.S. Lewis, offering an evaluation of English Bible translations, wrote in a letter: 'A modern translation is for most purposes far more useful than the Authorized [i.e., King James] Version.'

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

● 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

● 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1964 - Khrushchev visits Egypt

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

● 1966 - 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)

● 1966 - China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China

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

● 1967 - Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam

● 1967 - Muhammed Ali stripped of world heavyweight boxing title for refusing military draft.

● 1969 - New York Times reveals the United States has been secretly bombing Cambodia--officially a noncombatant, neutral country.

● 1970 - Five days after the Kent State killings, 100,000 march in Washington, D.C. against Vietnam War. About 600 Canadian protesters deface the Peace Arch at the U.S.-Canadian border, Blaine, Washington.

● 1971 - Nguyen Thi Co immolates herself in protest of Vietnam War.

● 1971 - Resistance to militarization of Larzac begins with march from Millau to La Cavalerie, France.

● 1971 - Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes

● 1972 - Israeli commandos storm hijacked jet; Twelve Israeli soldiers disguised as maintenance staff have stormed a hijacked Sabena Boeing at Lod airport in Tel Aviv and released the 100 people on board.

● 1972 - Some 2,000 anti-war protesters march from the Univ. of Washington to Seattle's Federal Court House, where they make camp.

● 1973 - End of American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Protesters, U.S. sign agreement in which the U.S. government agrees to examine Lakota treaty rights; due to government inaction, the treaty never takes effect.

● 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.

● 1977 - Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed

● 1977 - Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Republic of Cameroon

● 1977 - Patty Hearst let out of jail

● 1978 - The bullet-riddled body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in the center of Rome. The Red Brigades had abducted him.

● 1979 - El Salvador cathedral bloodbath; At least 18 demonstrators are shot dead and many wounded after police opened fire on anti-government protesters in El Salvador.

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

● 1980 - Auto workers in Gorky, U.S.S.R. strike to protest food shortages.

● 1980 - In Florida, Liberian freighter SS Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses.

● 1980 - In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunman and two police officers were killed while thirty-three police and civilian vehicles were destroyed in the chase.

● 1980 - The first meeting of Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in Ghana.

● 1981 - Kazimiroff Blvd in the Bronx named for a Bronx historian

● 1982 - One hundred fifty protest against visit of nuclear warship, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

● 1983 - John Paul II announced the reversal of the Catholic Church's 1633 condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the scientist who first espoused the Copernican (i.e., heliocentric) view of our solar system. {This was too little much, much too late.}

● 1987 - A Polish LOT Ilyushin IŁ 62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG). crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.

● 1988 - Syria threatens force in Beirut; Syria has hinted for the first time it may send in troops to halt the bloodshed in the slums of southern Beirut.

● 1988 - The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.

● 1988 - Belgium: 8th Government of Martens forms

● 1989 - Journalists petition Chinese Government for freedom of press

● 1989 - Vice President Dan Quayle says in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"

● 1992 - At 5:18 a.m. ADT The Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia experiences a methane explosion killing all 26 miners who were working.

● 1992 - Armenian forces capture Shusha in the Karabakh War, marking a major turning point in that conflict.

● 1993 - Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300

● 1993 - Paraguay holds its 1st presidential & parliamentary elections in 50 years

● 1993 - Network for deserters and conscientious objectors from former Yugoslavia established, Salzburg, Austria.

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

● 1994 - Massachusetts murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York

● 1994 - Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus

● 1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.

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

● 1999 - Chinese anger at embassy bombing; Major cities in China see their biggest demonstrations for years since the destruction by NATO bombs of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

● 1999 - On Mother's Day, a bus carrying 43 mostly elderly passengers to a Mississippi casino crashes on Interstate 610 in New Orleans, LA when the driver apparently passes out. Twenty-two passengers die.

● 2000 - Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards was convicted of extortion schemes to manipulate the licensing of riverboat casinos.

● 2002 - Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening suspended executions in his state while a study was done on whether the death penalty was being meted out in a racially discriminatory way. (Glendening's successor, Gov. Robert Ehrlich, lifted the moratorium seven months later.)

● 2002 - 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 militants among them deported to several different countries.

● 2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.

● 2002 - In Bahrain, people were allowed to vote for representatives for the first time in nearly 30 years. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in the country's history

● 2004 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a landmine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.

● 2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is selected as the successor of Pope John Paul II.

● 2006 - 2 miners, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, were freed after 14 days trapped underground in a goldmine at Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.

● 2006 - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.

BIRTHS

● 1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)

● 1439 - Pope Pius III (d. 1503)

● 1741 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)

● 1800 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)

● 1837 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1895)

● 1844 - Belle Boyd, American actress and Confederate spy during the Civil War (d. 1900)

● 1845 - Carl Gustaf Laval, Swedish scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1913)

● 1860 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)

● 1873 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)

● 1874 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)

● 1874 - Lilian Mary Baylis, English theatrical manager (d. 1937)

● 1882 - George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)

● 1882 - Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder (d. 1967)

● 1883 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)

● 1892 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)

● 1893 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman)

● 1895 - Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)

● 1895 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)

● 1888 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)

● 1907 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)

● 1907 - Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)

● 1907 - Fred Warngård, Swedish athlete (d. 1950)

● 1912 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)

● 1912 - Per Imerslund, "The aryan idol" (d. 1943)

● 1914 - Hank Snow, Canadian-born musician (d. 1999)

● 1916 - William du Bois, American author and illustrator of children's books (d. 1993)

● 1918 - Mike Wallace, American journalist ("60 Minutes")

● 1918 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)

● 1918 - Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek member of the World War II resistance

● 1920 - Richard Adams, English author

● 1920 - William Tenn, American author

● 1921 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)

● 1921 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)

● 1924 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)

● 1927 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

● 1928 - Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer (d. 1982)

● 1928 - Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)

● 1928 - Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater

● 1930 - Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)

● 1932 - Geraldine McEwan, Actor

● 1934 - Alan Bennett, British author

● 1936 - Albert Finney, British actor

● 1936 - Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician

● 1937 - Sonny Curtis, Rock musician (Buddy Holly and the Crickets)

● 1937 - José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect

● 1939 - Ralph Boston, American athlete

● 1939 - Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis player and businessman

● 1940 - James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer

● 1942 - Tommy Roe, Singer

● 1942 - John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General

● 1944 - Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)

● 1946 - Candice Bergen, American actress ("Murphy Brown")

● 1946 - Clint Holmes, Singer

● 1947 - Anthony Higgins, Actor

● 1948 - Calvin Murphy, Basketball Hall of Famer

● 1949 - Bob Margolin, Blues guitarist

● 1949 - Billy Joel, American musician

● 1950 - Tom Petersson, Rock singer, musician (Cheap Trick)

● 1951 - Mike D'Antoni, Basketball coach

● 1951 - Alley Mills, Actress ("The Wonder Years")

● 1955 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)

● 1955 - Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano

● 1956 - Wendy Crewson, Actress

● 1960 - Tony Gwynn, Hall of Fame baseball player

● 1961 - John Corbett, Actor

● 1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)

● 1963 - Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili)

● 1964 - Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey

● 1965 - Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player

● 1965 - Janu Tornell, American model and Survivor contestant

● 1968 - Marie-José Perec, French athlete

● 1969 - Amber, Dutch musician

● 1970 - Ghostface Killah, American rapper (Wu Tang Clan)

● 1971 - Mike Myerson, Country musician (Heartland)

● 1972 - Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist

● 1972 - Daniela Silivaş, Romanian gymnast

● 1973 - Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress

● 1975 - Lane Kiffin, Football coach

● 1976(75? NYT) - Tamia, Canadian R&B singer

● 1977 - Dan Regan, Rock musician (Reel Big Fish)

● 1977 - Choi Jeong-yun, South Korean actress

● 1977 - Maggie Dixon, Women's college basketball coach (d. 2006)

● 1978 - Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine football player

● 1978 - Aaron Harang, baseball pitcher

● 1979 - Rosario Dawson, American actress

● 1979 - Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

● 1979 - Andrew W.K., American musician

● 1980 - Cho Hyeon Jae, South Korean actor

● 1980 - Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer.

● 1980 - Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater

● 1980 - Tony Schmidt, German racing driver

● 1980 - Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player

● 1982 - Rachel Boston, American actress ("American Dreams")

● 1997 - Zane Huett, American child actor

DEATHS

● 1315 - Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)

● 1446 - Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368)

● 1657 - William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)

● 1707 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer

● 1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer(b. 1663)

● 1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)

● 1760 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)

● 1789 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)

● 1790 - William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress

● 1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)

● 1805 - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)

● 1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)

● 1889 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)

● 1903 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)

● 1915 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)

● 1918 - George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)

● 1931 - Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)

● 1938 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)

● 1949 - Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)

● 1950 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)

● 1955 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)

● 1957 - Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)

● 1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)

● 1970 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)

● 1970 - Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)

● 1976 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)

● 1976 - Ulrike Meinhof, German revolutionist (b. 1934)

● 1977 - James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)

● 1978 - Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)

● 1981 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)

● 1985 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)

● 1986 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b. 1914)

● 1989 - Keith Whitley, American country music singer (b. 1955)

● 1994 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)

● 1998 - Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)

● 2003 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)

● 2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)

● 2004 - Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927)

● 2005 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Flanders
● St. Beatus of Vendome
● St. Brynoth
● St. Carolina
● St. Gerontius (died 501)
● St. Gorfor
● St. Hermas
● St. John of Chalons
● St. Pachomius (died 346)
● St. Sanctan
● St. Tudi
● St. Vincent
● Bl. Thomas Pickering

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for (Civil Date: May 9)
● Hieromartyr Symeon the kinsman of the Lord.
● St. Stephen, abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop Vladimir in Volhynia.
● St. John, abbot of Cathares Monastery at Constantinople.
● New-Martyr Elias Ardunis of Mt. Athos.
● St. Seraphim, Bishop of Phanar.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Poplion.
● St. Eulogius the Hospitable at Constantinople.
● Martyr Longinus the New.

● old Roman Catholic, Anglican:
● St. Gregory Nazianzen, bishop of Constantinople/doctor

● Christian:
● St. Joan

● Roman Empire – Feast of the Lemures

● Russia and some other parts of the former Soviet Union – Victory Day as the end of the "Great Patriotic War".

● Armenia celebrates Victory Day to simultaneously mark the capture of Shusha in the Karabakh War and the victorious end of WWII.

● European Union – Europe day, commemorating the "Schuman declaration".

● Jersey, Guernsey – Liberation Day (commemorating the end of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II).

● Poland: Victory Day [in World War II]

● World : North Pole Flight Day (1926)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Mother's Day, give her a call today - ( Sunday )
● Ireland : Feis Ceoil music festival (1897) - ( Monday )
● US : Native American/Indian Day - ( Saturday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

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