(Kelly was later acquitted on all counts.) Kelly, accused of videotaping himself having sex with a girl as young as 13. In 2008, jury selection began in the Chicago trial of R&B superstar R. In 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first black president. In 1970, President Richard Nixon made a surprise and impromptu pre-dawn visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where he chatted with a group of protesters who’d been resting on the Memorial steps after protests against the Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings. In 1962, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in reflecting a laser beam off the surface of the moon. Minow decried the majority of television programming as a “vast wasteland.” In 1961, in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. In 1958, “Vertigo,” Alfred Hitchcock’s eerie thriller starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, premiered in San Francisco, the movie’s setting. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately. In 1945, with World War II in Europe at an end, Soviet forces liberated Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation. scholars announced in 1996 that their examination of Byrd’s flight diary suggested he had turned back 150 miles short of his goal.) In 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett supposedly became the first men to fly over the North Pole. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. In 1712, the Carolina Colony was officially divided into two entities: North Carolina and South Carolina. On May 9, 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section of the southbound span to collapse. Today is Thursday, May 9, the 129th day of 2019. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.

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