📜 This Day in History
May 9
1761The inaugural exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain opened at Spring Gardens in London.- 1918First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
- 1960The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid, the first combined oral contraceptive pill.
- 1977The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire, leaving 33 people dead.
- 1992An underground methane explosion occurred at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killing all 26 Canadian coal miners who were working at the time.
- 2023Pakistani protests: Riots broke out following the arrest of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan.
