TIME TRAVELING, MAY 9 1429 Joan of Arc recovers France from English domination late in the Hundred Years War at the siege of Orleans. 1502 Italian explorer Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his final trip to the Western Hemisphere. 1671 Thomas Blood, an Irish adventurer better known as “Captain Blood,” is captured, disguised as a priest, trying to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. 1945 Herman Goering, commander-in-chief of the German Luftwaffe, president of the Reichstag, head of the Gestapo, prime minister of Prussia, and Adolf Hitler’s designated successor, is taken prisoner by the U.S. Seventh Army in Bavaria. 1960 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time. 1961 Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles sets a Major League baseball record when he hits a grand slam home run in two consecutive innings in a game against the Minnesota Twins. 1964 At age 63, the great Louis Armstrong breaks the Beatles’ stranglehold on the U.S. pop charts with the #1 hit “Hello, Dolly.” 1970 Up to 100,000 young people demonstrate peacefully in Washington, D.C., demanding the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Vietnam and other Southeast Asia nations. A few hundred militants spread through surrounding streets, and police attack the most threatening crowds with tear gas. 1971 The last original episode of the sitcom “The Honeymooners” starring Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph is aired. 1974 The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. 1978 The bullet-riddled body of five-time former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro is found in an automobile in the center of Rome. He had been kidnapped by Red Brigade terrorists on March 16, but the Italian government refuses to negotiate with the extreme left-wing group. 1980 A Liberian freighter hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, killing 35 motorists and collapsing a 1,400-foot section of the bridge. 1996 In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, Ark., President Bill Clinton says he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners. 1997 Former Florida Representative Douglas “Pete” Peterson, a U.S. Air Force captain who was held prisoner of war for 6 ½ years after his bomber was shot down near Hanoi in 1966, returns to Hanoi as the first ambassador to Vietnam since the fall of Saigon in April 1975.
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