Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 9, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 94 degrees (1934)
- Low temperature: 27 degrees (1983)
- Precipitation: 3.14 inches (1990)
- Snowfall: 0.1 inches (1923)
1948: Superdawg Drive-In founders Flaurie and Maurie Berman opened their original hot dog stand, which was only supposed to last one summer.
1973: The Tribune donated a plaque with its famous “Dewey Defeats Truman” front page from Nov. 3, 1948, to the Truman Memorial Library in Independence, Missouri.
Knowing how much Truman enjoyed the botched headline, Tribune leadership had the page emblazoned on a bronze plaque during the newspaper’s 125th anniversary with the intent on presenting it to him. Unfortunately, Truman would not live to see it; he died on Dec. 26, 1972.
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1979: “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s second known bomb was detonated. Northwestern University graduate researcher John G. Harris was treated for cuts on his arms and burns on his eyes after a bomb in a cigar box exploded when he opened it in a study room at the school’s Technological Institute. Police said the force of the blast blew his eyeglasses off his face and singed his eyebrows and lashes.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Chicago Cubs who have hit for the cycle
1993: The Cubs may have lost on Mother’s Day at Wrigley Field, but their first baseman kept the game against the San Diego Padres close. Grace hit a double in the first inning, a single in the third, tripled in the seventh and batted a three-run homer in the ninth that left the Cubs one run short.
“I should get the game film, because I’ll never do it again,” Grace told reporters after the game. “I don’t hit too many triples. I hit fewer triples than I hit home runs, and that’s saying something.”
At that point in his career, Grace had 19 triples and 51 home runs.
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