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