Friday 9 May 2008
On this Day - 9 May
1386 The Treaty of Windsor, between kings Richard and John, made a perpetual alliance between England and Portugal. 1695 The Scottish Parliament met and enquired into the massacre of Glencoe. 1828 The British Test and Corporation Acts were repealed so that Catholic and Protestant Nonconformists could hold public office in Britain. 1939 British prime minister Winston Churchill urged military alliance with USSR 1940 Romania placed itself under German protection 1940 RAF began night bombing of Germany 1945 Russian troops took Prague 1946 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicated and Umberto II proclaimed himself king 1955 West Germany was admitted as a member of NATO. 1978 Aldo Moro was found dead in Rome after the Italian government refused to make concessions to his captors. 1996 The British House of Commons voted to maintain the Ministry of Defence ban on homosexuals serving in the armed forces. 1996 The Bulgarian national currency, the levy, collapsed after the Bulgarian national bank announced a rise in its interest rate from 67% to 108%.
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