1914
Mother's Day became a public holiday.
1926
Explorers Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole.
1936
Fascist Italy annexed Ethiopia.
1962
The Beatles signed their first recording contract and hired George Martin to be their producer.
1978
The body of slain former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in Rome.
1984
It took the Chicago White Sox 25 innings, eight hours, and six minutes, over two days, to finally defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6. It was the longest game (in elapsed time) in major-league history.
1994
The South African parliament chose Nelson Mandela as president.
2004
Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader, Akhmad Kadyrov, was killed in a bombing. Six others were killed and another 60 wounded.
Source:This Day in history/May-9

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A small passenger aeroplane has crashed and burst into flames along a busy Atlanta motorway, killing all four people onboard.
No one on the ground was hurt although the plane nearly stuck a vehicle.
"It's a miracle, literally a miracle, that no other cars were hit," DeKalb Fire Capt Eric Jackson said.
The Piper PA-32 crashed minutes after taking off from DeKalb Peachtree Airport on Friday.
Rescue workers shut down Interstate 285 in both directions so investigators could determine what happened. The closure created traffic problems through the city.
Authorities did not immediately release the names of the victims.
"It looked like it was struggling. You could see him trying to get the nose of the plane up. It was edging up, and then it just dropped," witness Don McGhee told the Associated Press. "It was just a huge fire, just smoke and fire."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32632519#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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1794
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
1877
The first Westminister Dog Show was held.
1902
Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted, destroying the town of St. Pierre, and killing 40,000 people.
1945
V-E Day marks the European victory of the Allies in World War II.
1973
The 10-week Wounded Knee occupation ended when members of the American Indian Movement surrendered.
1978
David Berkowitz, a.k.a. the “Son of Sam,” plead guilty to killing six people in New York City.
1999
The Citadel in South Carolina graduated its first female cadet, Nancy Mace.
Source:This day in history/May-8

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LAS VEGAS — To many Americans, the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett is the “Oracle of Omaha.” To another billionaire investor, Daniel S. Loeb, he is a hypocrite.

Mr. Loeb, who runs the $17.4 billion hedge fund Third Point, told an audience of hedge fund faithful on Wednesday that Mr. Buffett “has a lot of wisdom, but I think we need to be aware of the disconnect between his wisdom and how he behaves.”

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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi struck twice and set up Neymar in the final 13 minutes as Pep Guardiola’s return to the Camp Nou as Bayern Munich coach ended in a 3-0 defeat in the first-leg of their Champions League semi-final.

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Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a government official in Mogadishu on Wednesday and, in a separate attack, bombed an African Union troop convoy outside the capital, police and a spokesman for the group said. Abdifatah Barre, the Deputy District Commissioner of Mogadishu’s Wadajir district, was shot dead in his car.

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1882
Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act over President Chester A. Arthur's veto.
1889
The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, marking the completion and dedication of the Eiffel Tower.
1937
The German airship Hindenburg blew up and burst into flames at Lakehurst, N.J.
1941
Dictator Joseph Stalin became the premier of Russia.
1954
British athlete Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes (3:59:4).
1994
The Chunnel between England and France officially opened.
1999
Scotland elected its first separate parliament in three centuries.
Source: This day in history/May-6

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