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May 9th, 2006 | Event | Estonia ratifies the European Constitution. |
May 9th, 2006 | Event | George Preca is canonised as the first Maltese saint in history. |
May 9th, 2004 | Event | Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya. |
May 9th, 2002 | Event | The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries. |
May 9th, 2002 | Event | In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130. |
May 9th, 2001 | Event | In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko. |
May 9th, 1992 | Event | Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War. |
May 9th, 1988 | Event | The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra. |
May 9th, 1987 | Event | A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kosciuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people. |
May 9th, 1980 | Event | In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses. |
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