History for May 9

History for May 9 - On-This-Day.com
John Brown 1800, Henry J. Kaiser 1882, Mike Wallace 1918 - Broadcast journalist ("60 Minutes") 


Tommy Roe 1942, Billy Joel 1949 - Musician, Prince Fielder 1984 - Baseball player 


1671 - Thomas "Captain" Blood stole the crown jewels from the Tower of London. 


1754 - The first newspaper cartoon in America showed a divided snake "Join or die" in "The Pennsylvania Gazette." 


1785 - Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle. 


1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole. 


1941 - The German submarine U-110 was captured at sea by Britain's Royal navy. 


1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time. 


1980 - A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. 35 motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed. 


1987 - Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers were married. 


1994 - Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa's first black president. 


1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.