Today in History - History - May 9th

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

1836HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius

1973For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game

1987Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games

1934Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University!

1941Louis Buchalter is arraigned in New York state court on the 1936 Joseph Rosen murder along with three other murders

1964Khrushchev visits Egypt

2012United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same sex marriage

2005Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched

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

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

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

1965Steve Yzerman, Cranbrook British Columbia, NHL forward (Team Canada, Detroit)

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

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

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

1942Physicist Robert Hofstadter (27) weds Nancy Givan

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

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

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

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

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