TMN STAFF<\/p>\n
May 9, there are 237 days left in this year.<\/p>\n
1914<\/strong>– Mother’s Day became a public holiday.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong>– Explorers Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong>– Fascist Italy annexed Ethiopia.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong>– The Beatles signed their first recording contract and hired George Martin to be their producer.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong>– The body of slain former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in Rome.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong>– It took the Chicago White Sox 25 innings, eight hours, and six minutes, over two days, to finally defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6. It was the longest game (in elapsed time) in major-league history.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong>– The South African parliament chose Nelson Mandela as president.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong>– Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader, Akhmad Kadyrov, was killed in a bombing. Six others were killed and another 60 wounded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1800<\/strong>– John Brown, American abolitionist.<\/p>\n 1844<\/strong>– Belle Boyd, spy during the American Civil War.<\/p>\n 1860<\/strong>– Sir James Barrie, playwright, novelist, author of Peter Pan.<\/p>\n 1873<\/strong>– Howard Carter, Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of King Tutankhamen.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong>– Glenda Jackson, Actress<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong>– Albert Finney, Actor<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong>– John Ashcroft, former Attorney General<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong>– Billy Joel, musician, singer, songwriter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 9, there are 237 days left in this year. 1914– Mother’s Day became a public holiday. 1926– Explorers Richard E. Byrd and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26837,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836\/revisions\/26837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}