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Notable anniversaries in history for today: May 9
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones; Brigadier General (Confederate Army).
- 150th: 1874 - The first horse-drawn omnibus makes its debut in the city of Mumbai, India.
- 150th: 1874 - Victoria Embankment, in London, England, opens.
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Howard Carter in Swaffham, Norfolk, England; British archaeologist/Egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Bulat S Okudzjava; Russian author (Student!).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Connie Russell in New York City, New York, USA; singer (Garroway at Large TV show (1949), variety TV shows of Morey Amsterdam, Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Gerard Wernars; Dutch graphic designer (Library stamps 1991).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Jean J A Girault; French director/screenwriter (l'Amour).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Alan Bennett in England; playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Beyond the Fringe).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of John Robertson; deputy chairman (Barclays de Zoete Wedd).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Roy Massey; Master of Choristers (Hereford Cathedral).
- 90th: 1934 - Donald Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Don Dannemann; rocker (Cyrkle).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Richard [Richie] Furay in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA; rock vocalist (Buffalo Springfield, Poco).
- 80th: 1944 - Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana.
- 80th: 1944 - Joe McCarthy returns as New York Yankees' manager after an illness.
- 80th: 1944 - Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Miloslav Mecir in Czechoslovakia; tennis player (Olympics-gold-1988).
- 60th: 1964 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev visits Egypt.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Pete Kelley; 218.25 pounds (99kg) US weightlifter (Olympics-14th-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Shin Yahata; hockey forward (Team Japan 1998).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Stephane Yelle in Ottawa, Canada; NHL center (Colorado Avalanche).
- 50th: 1974 - House Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on President Richard Nixon impeachment.
- 40th: 1984 - Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 innings (started May 8; 8 hour 6 minute game-longest timed baseball game).
- 40th: 1984 - Alexander Calder's Big Crinkly 24-foot high standing mobile statue sells for US$852,000.
- 20th: 2004 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by a landmine placed under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial parade in Grozny.
- 20th: 2004 - Canada wins the World Ice Hockey Championship in Prague, Czech Republic.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Alan King AKA Irwin Kniberg at age 76 from lung cancer; standup comedian and actor (33 times on Ed Sullivan Show TV show, co-hosted Tony Awards and the Oscar Awards).
- 15th: 2009 - In the Indonesian parliamentary election, the president's Democrat Party takes first place with 20.85% of the vote.
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