Historically Speaking of May 9th...

The following notable events occurred this day:

• 1994 - Kinshasa, capital of Zaire, was placed under quarantine after an outbreak of the Ebola virus
• 1974 - The House Judiciary Committee opens hearings on whether to impeach President Richard Nixon
• 1971 - The last episode of The Honeymooners airs
• 1960 - The Food and Drug Administration approved use of a birth control pill
• 1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to make an airplane flight over the North Pole
• 1914 - President Woodrow Wilson proclaims the first Mother’s Day holiday
• 1887 - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show opens in London, England

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