Today is Friday, May 9, the 129th day of 2014. There are 236 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a
proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
On this date:
In 1864, Union Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick was killed by a Confederate sniper during the Civil War Battle of
Spotsylvania in Virginia.
In 1914, country music star Hank Snow was born in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada.
In 1936, Italy annexed Ethiopia.
In 1945, U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.
In 1951, the U.S. conducted its first thermonuclear experiment as part of Operation Greenhouse by
detonating a 225-kiloton device on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific nicknamed "George."
In 1961, in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Newton N. Minow decried the majority of television programming as a "vast wasteland."

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened public hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of
President Richard Nixon.
In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in
Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section of the southbound span to collapse.
In 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first black
president.