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