Bits of History (May 09)
1926: Americans Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first people to fly over the North Pole.
2002: A radio-controlled landmine exploded in Kaspiisk in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan killing 42 people and wounding 150 during a Victory Day parade.
2004: Chechnya’s Moscow-backed president, Akhmad Kadyrov, was killed when a bomb blast tore through a packed stadium in Grozny.
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