FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008

Today is Friday, May 9, the 130th day of 2008. There are 236 days left in the year.

1936 _ Italy takes Addis Ababa, annexing Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1944 _ Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol

1945 _ Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)

1945 _ Victory celebration at Red Square

1949 _ Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco

1960 _ U.S. is first country to use the birth control pill legally

1966 _ People's Republic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor

1974 _ House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment

1995 _ Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus

1997 _ First U.S. ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam