Today in History - May 9
- dataciam
- May 9
- 1 min read
HIGHLIGHTS:
1992 — Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1992 — Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
2001 — In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. 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.
2002 — The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2018 — Barisan Nasional, the coalition that had governed Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957, suffer an historic defeat in the 2018 Malaysian general election.
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