MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011

Today is Monday, May 9, the 129th day of 2011. There are 236 days left in the year.

1336 ― Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux

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

1766 ― John Byron back in England after trip around the world

1788 ― English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

1899 ― Lawn mower patented

1914 ― President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day

1944 ― First eye bank opens (NYC)

1965 ― Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert

1989 ― Journalists petition Chinese Government for freedom of press

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