THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013

Today is Thursday, May 9, the 129th day of 2013. There are 236 days left in the year.

1502 ― Columbus left Spain on his fourth & 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

1914 ― President Wilson proclaims Mother’s Day

1950 ― French Foreign minister Robert Schuman announces the Schuman Plan for European integration

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

1964 ― Peter & Gordon release “World Without Love”

1970 ― 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War

1974 ― House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment