Today In History For May 9th

Today is Monday, May 9, the 129th day of 2011. There are 236 days left in the year.

In 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."

In 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.

In 1978, the bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.