Today is Saturday, May 9, the 129th day of 2015. 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
1753 ― King Louis XV disbands French parliament
1868 ― Anton Bruckner’s 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1899 ― Lawn mower patented
1914 ― President Wilson proclaims Mother’s Day
1944 ― First eye bank opens (NYC)
1960 ― U.S. is first country to use the birth control pill legally
1965 ― Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
1970 ― 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1995 ― Kinshasa, Zaire, under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
1997 ― First U.S. ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam