Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 May 9

Hurricane Dean

The

• ... that four months after its creation, a Facebook group dedicated to the halal snack pack (pictured) had almost 90,000 members?
• ... that Emilia Baeyertz preached to crowds on Christianity but her son, Charles Nalder Baeyertz, was concerned about the moral dangers of "a prevalence of bad English"?
• ... that after losing a
  steel cage match in the main event of the 2016 Guerra de Golfo, professional wrestler Astro was forced to take off his mask
  ?
• ... that L. Douglas Smoot made contributions both locally and nationally with his chemical engineering work in combustion research?
• ... that in the Microsoft Windows and Wii video game Snail Mail, players navigate the various levels by controlling the main character, a snail named Turbo with a jetpack?
• ... that the Belgian folklorist Emiel van Heurck never graduated, but wrote books on religious popular culture and translated Multatuli into French?
• ... that American slaveholders altered "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness" because they felt they could not sing a hymn that endorsed educating "the Negro"?
• ... that the footballer Emily Allen once scored 15 goals in one match?

Mario Gutierrez

• In horse racing, Nyquist, ridden by Mario Gutierrez (pictured), wins the Kentucky Derby.
• Enda Kenny of Fine Gael is re-elected Taoiseach of Ireland and forms a minority coalition government.
• A wildfire in Canada displaces 88,000 people and destroys more than 1,600 buildings in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
• In association football, Leicester City win the English Premier League for the first time.
• Mark Selby defeats Ding Junhui to win the World Snooker Championship.
• The Kenyan government burns the largest-ever pile of ivory to combat illegal ivory trade.

May 9: Europe Day/Schuman Day in the European Union; Victory Day in various Eastern European countries

Punch and Judy show

• 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch of the Punch and Judy show (pictured) made his first recorded appearance in England.
• 1877 – Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu made a speech in the Parliament that declared Romania was discarding Ottoman suzerainty.
• 1918 – First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
• Searle's Enovid for birth control, making it the first oral contraceptive pill
  .
• 1977 – The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire, leaving 33 people dead and 21 injuried.

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Kevin Faulconer

The Mayor of the City of San Diego is the official head and chief executive officer of the city of San Diego, California. The mayor has the duty to enforce and execute the laws enacted by the San Diego City Council, the legislative branch. The mayor serves a four-year term and is limited to two successive terms. There have been 35 individuals who have served as mayor. Joshua Bean, elected in 1850, was the first mayor of the city. Edwin M. Capps, who served as mayor in the late 1800s and early 1900s, is the only person who served two non-consecutive terms. From 1852 to 1888, the city was run by a Board of Trustees and there was no elected mayor. However, the president of the board was called mayor as a courtesy. Kevin Faulconer (pictured) is the current mayor of San Diego; he assumed the office on March 3, 2014. (Full list...)

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