May 9 1671: Captain Blood Stole The Crown Jewels
In London, Thomas Blood, an Irish adventurer better known as “Captain Blood,” was captured attempting to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Blood, a Parliamentarian during the English Civil War, was deprived of his estate in Ireland with the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. In 1663, he put himself at the head of a plot to seize Dublin Castle from supporters of King Charles II, but the plot was discovered and his accomplices executed. He escaped capture. In 1671, he hatched a bizarre plan to steal the new Crown Jewels, which had been refashioned by Charles II because most of the original jewels were melted down after Charles I’s execution in 1649.
May 9 1922
King Faud's government issued a decree making it the sole legal trader of narcotics in Egypt.
May 9 1936
Five days after Italy captured the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Mussolini announces that Abyssinian was part of the Italian Empire.
May 9 1953
Arab League foreign ministers back Egypt's demand that Britain leave the Suez Canal Zone.
May 9 1955: West Germany Joined NATO
Ten years after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, West Germany formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense group aimed at containing Soviet expansion in Europe. This action marked the final step of West Germany’s integration into the Western European defense system.
May 9 1956
British Togoland (a UN trust, once part of the German colony of Togo) voted for annexation by Ghana.
May 9 1996
Deputy President F W De Klerk announced that the South African National Party will withdraw from its coalition with the ANC and become an opposition party.
Sources: africanhistory.about.com and history.com
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