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Athanasius is elected by the Alexandrian Council on May 9, 328 to be Bishop Patriarch of Alexandria after the death of Alexander. Athanasius was believed to be about 30 years old at the time.
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On This Day in History: May 9
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The Anglo- Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (The Treaty of Windsor) is ratified at Windsor on May 9, 1386, establishing an alliance between England and Portugal, which remains the world's oldest diplomatic alliance. It was only interrupted once during the Anglo- Spanish war.
President Wilson makes his first Mothers Day proclamation on May 9, 1914, after the U.S. Congress set the second Sunday of every May as the official Mothers Day celebration. By then most U.S. States were already celebrating Mother's Day.
Julia Ward Howe (1872), a key women's rights figure and participant in the American Woman Suffrage Association and Anna Jarvis (1907) are also credited for suggesting and promoting the idea. The custom developed of wearing a red or pink carnation to represent a living mother or a white carnation for a mother who was deceased. The modern American version of the holiday has been criticized for becoming too commercialized. Many other countries have a multi-century history of a day to celebrate mothers on different dates. More
Benito Mussolini Italian government proclaims on May 9, 1936, the annexation of Ethiopia as part of Italian East Africa, seven months after invading Ethiopia and driving Emperor Haile Selassie I into exile.
The FDA announces the approval of Enovid for birth control.on May 9, 1960. The approval limited its use to no more than two years.
Nine years later, in 1969 Barbara Seaman’s book, “The Doctor’s Case Against the Pill,” show testimony and research showing that the high doses of estrogen in the early Pill put women at risk of blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. History of Birth Control in the U.S.
William M. Beecher, New York Times military correspondent publishes on May 9, 1969, a one-page dispatch from Washington, "Raids in Cambodia by US Unprotested," describing the first of recent B-52 raids in Cambodia and exposing President Richard M. Nixon's secret bombing campaign over Cambodia.
Within hours, Henry Kissinger, presidential assistant for national security affairs, contacts J. Edgar hoover, the director of the FBI, asking him to find the government sources of Beecher’s article. During the next two years, Alexander Haig, a key Kissinger assistant, transmitted the names of national Security Council staff members and reporters who were to have their telephones wiretapped by the FBI. More
The U.S. House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee begins formal televised hearings, on May 9, 1974, in the impeachment investigation of President Richard M. Nixon., regarding his involvement in the Watergate scandal cover-up.