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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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