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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 9 May.

1. Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to the New World
2. 1st newspaper cartoon in America Divided snake `Join or die'
3. Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
4. 17th amendment providing for election of senators by popular vote
5. Cornerstone for Hebrew University layed
6. Americans Byrd & Bennett make 1st airplane flight over North Pole
7. Italy annexed Ethiopia
8. 1st eye bank opened in NYC
9. Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
10. 1st Variety show - NBC's Hour Glass premiers
11. Robert Schuman announces Plan for European integration
12. Jim Gentile hits grand slammers in consecutive innings
13. FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a `vast wasteland'
14. House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
15. Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)

These famous people were born on 9 May.

1. 1800 - John Brown, abolitionist, leader of attack on Harpers Ferry
2. 1843 - Belle Boyd, Confederate spy, Actress, lecturer
3. 1860 - James M Barrie, Scotland
4. 1860 - Sir James Barrie, Scottish author (Peter Pan, The Little Minister)
5. 1873 - Howard Carter, Egyptologist found King Tut
6. 1882 - Henry J Kaiser, (built Liberty Ships, Jeeps)
7. 1883 - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (Revolt of the Masses)
8. 1910 - Barbara Woodhouse, Dog training expert
9. 1914 - Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator
10. 1918 - Mike Wallace, host of 60 Minutes (or 0519)
11. 1928 - Pancho Gonzales, U.S. tennis champion
12. 1931 - Vance D. Brand, U.S. astronaut (Apollo-Soyuz, STS-5, 41B)
13. 1936 - Terry Drinkwater, CBS newsman
14. 1936 - Glenda Jackson, in Cheshire England
15. 1936 - Albert Finney, Actor (The Dresser, Under the Volcano)
16. 1940 - James L Brooks, Producer-director
17. 1946 - Candice Bergen, in Beverly Hills, her father spoke to wood
18. 1948 - Billy Joel, Bronx (Pianoman)