TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
May 9, 1914
President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
ON THIS DATE 1951
The U.S. conducted its first thermonuclear experiment as part of Operation Greenhouse by detonating a 225-kiloton device on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific nicknamed “George.”
1974
The House Judiciary Committee opened public hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
2019
Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking new church law requiring all Catholic priests and nuns to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities.