On this day — May 9

United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.

unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.

the coalition that had governed Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957, suffer an historic defeat in the 2018 Malaysian general election.

The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.

marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Canada.

Canberra officially opens.

Poland, killing all 183 people on board.

Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 430-meter (1,400 ft) section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 46 metres (150 ft) into the water and die.

United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.

prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.

The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

by robbing two banks.