SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2009

Today is Saturday, May 9, the 129th day of 2009. There are 236 days left in the year.

1502 _ Columbus left Spain on his fourth and final trip to New World

1788 _ English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

1868 _ Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres

1899 _ Lawn mower patented

1944 _ First eye bank opens (NYC)

1945 _ Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)

1978 _ Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found

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"

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