Today in History - History - May 9th

1978Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found

1922The International Astronomical Union formally adopt Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system, which with only minor changes, is still used today

1964Khrushchev visits Egypt

1502Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World

1958Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, is released

1993Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic

198318th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson

1768John Hancock pays duties on 25 pipes of wine, only one fourth of his ship's carrying capacity, and British officials accuse him of unloading the rest during the night to avoid paying the duties on the entire cargo

1836HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius

2005Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched

1964Miloslav Mecir, Bojnice Czechoslovakia, tennis player (Olympic-gold-1988)

1949Billy Joel, Bronx, rock vocalist (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)

1882Henry J. Kaiser, Sprout Brook NY, ship builder and industrialist (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam)

1873Howard Carter, London, British archaeologist and egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)

1800John Brown, Torrington, Connecticut, American revolutionary abolitionist (d. 1859)

1918Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes), (d. 2012)

1987Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry

1942Physicist Robert Hofstadter (27) weds Nancy Givan

1979Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and steel magnate, dies at 95

1986Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71

2012Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser and businessman, dies from leukemia at 84

1978Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization Red Brigades at 61