What happened on 9 May?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1950 Schuman Declaration Robert Schuman proposes pooling French and German coal and steel — the seed of the EU.
2. 1540 Born: Maharana Pratap Rajput king of Mewar who resisted Akbar's Mughal expansion.
3. 1876 Otto's four-stroke engine Nicolaus Otto builds his four-stroke compressed-charge engine (patented 1877); foundation of the automobile.
4. 1958 Vertigo released Hitchcock's color-saturated film of obsession in San Francisco.
5. 1911 Rosing's cathode-ray television demonstration Boris Rosing in St Petersburg transmits coarse geometric shapes using a mechanical mirror-drum scanner and a cathode-ray tube receiver — one of the first demonstrations of a cathod
6. 1955 Germany joins NATO West Germany admitted to NATO; rearmament under Allied supervision; Bundeswehr created.
7. 1754 Albany Plan and 'Join, or Die' As war with France looms, Franklin proposes a union of the colonies and prints his cartoon of a snake cut into pieces — the first scheme for American unity.
8. 1814 Jane Austen's Mansfield Park The quiet Fanny Price, taken in by rich relations whose wealth rests on an Antiguan plantation — Austen's most morally serious novel.