The May 9, 1991 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 128 day of the year. President of the United States was George Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 34 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, May 9, 2025, 130 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, May 9, 2026, in 234 days. You have lived for 12,549 days, or about 301,188 hours, or about 18,071,295 minutes, or about 1,084,277,700 seconds.
9th of May 1991 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 9, 1991
Worry on Quayle Continues With News of Bush's Health, Poll Says
Date: 10 May 1991
By Robin Toner
Robin Toner
Thrust into the spotlight because of President Bush's health problems, Vice President Dan Quayle continues to stir deep anxiety among Americans, with 62 percent saying they worry about the prospect of a Quayle Presidency, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll has found. Nearly three years of careful image-grooming have done little to improve the public's perception of the 44-year-old Mr. Quayle, the poll suggests: Only 19 percent of those who participated in the survey say they have a favorable opinion of the Vice President. Twenty-two percent held that view just after the election in November 1988, three months after Mr. Bush stunned much of the political world by selecting the young Senator from Indiana as his running mate.
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3 CBS Men Released by Iraq
Date: 09 May 1991
AP
One British and two American technicians from CBS News were released today after being detained in Iraq for four days. The three -- Richard Parrott, 26 years old, of Woodford Green, Essex, England; Olcott Mills, 56, of Palm Harbor, Fla., and Barry Severson, 26, of Phoenix -- said they were well treated after being detained Saturday at an Iraqi checkpoint near the southern border town of Safwan. They said they had been questioned but not harassed.
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Weekly Newspaper Charged With Violating Law on Rape
Date: 10 May 1991
The Palm Beach County prosecutor today charged The Globe, a weekly newspaper printed in nearby Boca Raton and circulated in supermarkets nationwide, with two misdemeanor counts of violating a Florida law that prohibits disclosure of a rape victim's name. In its April 23 issue, The Globe printed the name and picture of the woman who authorities say was raped by William K. Smith on Easter weekend at the Kennedy estate in Palm Beach. The article had the headline "Kennedy Rape Gal Exposed."
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CNBC Wins Bidding War For FNN
Date: 10 May 1991
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
After an increasingly tense bidding war, a Federal bankruptcy judge decided yesterday that the Financial News Network should go to NBC's Consumer News and Business Channel for $154.3 million and a share of future revenues. The price is more than 70 percent higher than the first bid for the ailing network, which was made by Dow Jones & Company and the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in February.
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Abroad at Home; Abusing The Law
Date: 10 May 1991
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
American law offers numerous examples of vexatious litigation -- abusive, inflated, meritless lawsuits. But my candidate for the prize in outrageousness is a libel suit still making its way through the courts. It is called Immuno A.G. v. Moor-Jankowski. The case began in 1983 with a letter to the editor of the Journal of Medical Primatology, a specialist journal with just 300 subscribers. The letter was from Dr. Shirley McGreal, chairwoman of the International Primate Protection League.
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Public & Private; Experience and Truth
Date: 09 May 1991
By Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
This week there were two memorial services for Gad Gross, one in New York, the other in Boston. There has not yet been a funeral. Neither his family, his friends nor those they have interested in his case have been able to persuade the Iraqis to produce his body. Iraqi officials concocted the preposterous story that he came to the northern part of the country on assignment for Newsweek and chose that time and place to kill himself, armed with nothing more than a camera bag. Two journalists with him were hiding in a ditch when they heard him screaming. The screams stopped after the sound of gunfire. "He shoot himself," said a soldier.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 09 May 1991
International A3-15 President Bush praised the successes of President Gorbachev and said he was inclined to satisfy his request for aid. Mr. Bush's remarks suggest the nations are close to a summit meeting on conventional arms. Page A1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 10 May 1991
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Iraq rejected a United Nations plan for a police force in northern Iraq, Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar told President Bush, raising the possibility that American troops might have to stay longer. Page A1 Iraq moves to stop the spread of allied zone for the Kurds A10
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BankAmerica
Date: 10 May 1991
The BankAmerica Corporation has established a foothold in Texas by buying a failed bank there from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. It will acquire $27 million in deposits and about $6 million in loans of the Village Green National Bank, which operates one branch in Houston. BankAmerica paid the F.D.I.C. $1.8 million and will rename the bank Bank of America Texas.
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Intermec Takeover
Date: 09 May 1991
Reuters
The Intermec Corporation, a maker of bar code reading devices, said its $24 a share takeover by a unit of Litton Industries could close as scheduled because the Federal Trade Commission had not requested additional information on the $200 million deal. Intermec said the waiting period required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antiturst Improvements Act of 1976 had passed without any such request being made. The tender offer is due to close on May 16. Intermec stock closed at $23.875 today, unchanged in over-the-counter trading.
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