Today, May\u00a0 9<\/p>\n
1540 \u2013 Hernando de Alarc\u00f3n sets sail from Acapulco with 2 ships, the San Pedro, <\/em>and the Santa Catalina<\/em>, later joined by the San Gabriel<\/em> at St. Jago de Buena Esperanza, in Colima, to travel up the Gulf of California, explore the Baja California Peninsula and contact and resupply the overland expedition by Francisco V\u00e1zquez de Coronado.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.<\/p>\n 1926 \u2013 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 The German submarine U-110<\/em> is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 4 Days after having its sovereignty returned and recognized by France, Britain and the United States, West Germany joins the NATO alliance.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle’s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 The House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran by the shiite moslem theocratic government, prompting the mass exodus of the Jewish community in Iran.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 The Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture<\/em> collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, causing a 1,400 foot long section of the southbound span collapse. 6 cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water killing 35 people in the vehicles. 2002 \u2013 A 38 day long stand off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, May\u00a0 9 1540 \u2013 Hernando de Alarc\u00f3n sets sail from Acapulco with 2 ships, the San Pedro, and the Santa Catalina, later joined by the San Gabriel at St. Jago de Buena Esperanza, in Colima, to travel up the Gulf of California, explore the Baja California Peninsula and contact and resupply the overland expedition … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92593,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67651\/revisions\/92593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn Norco, California, 5 masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. 2 of the gunmen and 1 police officer are killed and 33 police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.<\/p>\n