FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014

Today is Friday, May 9, the 129th day of 2014. There are 236 days left in the year.

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

1788 ― English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

1899 ― Lawn mower patented

1944 ― Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol

1951 ― Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River during Korean War

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

1970 ― 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War

1979 ― U.S. and USSR sign Salt 2 Treaty, limiting nuclear weapons

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 fall of Saigon arrives in Vietnam