#HISTORICALEVENTS :
1927 – Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia1945 – Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1955 – German Federal Republic joins NATO
1960 – Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
This Day in History 09/05
MAY 9TH
1785 – British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1788 – British parliament accepts abolition of slave trade
1868 – The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1899 – Lawn mower patented
1927 – Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
1945 – Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1955 – German Federal Republic joins NATO
1960 – Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1988 – Australia’s new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth II
1988 – Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms
1988 – The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.
2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused…
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