Today is Thursday, May 9, the 130th day of 2024. There are 236 days left in the year. On May 9, 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first Black president.
In File Photo: Then-Mayor Rodrigo Duterte poses for a selfie with a supporter after voting in a polling precinct in Davao City during presidential elections on May 9, 2016.Today’s Highlights in History:
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. In 1962, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in reflecting a laser beam off the surface of the moon. In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened public hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
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